subject: Keeping In Touch With Grandma Or Grandpa From All Across The Country [print this page] Nowadays, families tend to spread themselves far and wide across the country, and even at times around the world! Whether it's on account of work or something else, many families wind up moving far away from their close loved ones, including important relations such as grandma and grandpa. But thanks to modern technology, your little ones are not left with just the memory of Grandmother in the photo albums that sit on your coffee table. Keeping in touch has never been easier.
Using Technology To Keep In Touch
The improvements that have been produced in electronic interaction open up the doors for staying in touch with long-distance grannies and grandpas. The ease of email enables even a five-year-old kid to do it. This is wonderful because even grandparents who have a very difficult time with technology can be taught how to use email to send and get messages. If a particular grandparent is especially unfamiliar with personal computers, you can certainly opt for a uncomplicated laptop or computer and take around an hour to teach them how to use it. There are also classes offered for just this type of need at most local community colleges and community centers - many of them for free or at a very minimal cost. Once Grandmother sees the first few pictures of the children on her own personal computer, it's likely that she'll want to find out what she needs to do to see some more.
Keeping Up Communication Over Long Distances
Some more methods Grandmother can use to appreciate using technology and to stay in touch even from her home far away are:
Printing digital pictures from home. Granny will be able to fill up several photo albums each year without heading out to the photo store if she has the proper printer and photo paper.
Using Skype or other internet phone providers. If Grandma and you both currently have Skype accounts, then it will be free for you both to talk Skype to Skype. There are also low-cost phone plans which allow you to call land lines and cellular phones.
Making use of cell phone features. Many cell phone plans feature unlimited calling when it's a particular time, for instance after six p.m. and also on every weekend. They can make use of this free time slot to communicate with their family.
Creating accounts on social networks. If they join up with a social network site like Facebook.com or Twitter.com then they can maintain contact with many other relatives as well as posting their status, sharing photographs, and far more.
Producing photo albums on the internet. Create online photo albums using photo-sharing sites such as Flickr.com, and then you can share them with family and friends. This can be a great way to share important events immediately with grandma and other people, or you can upload and share holiday and school pictures without having the long wait for snail mail.
Using a web camera to chat in real-time. Using services such as Yahoo Messenger, you and your absent grandparent can talk face to face - for no charge! It's straightforward to use web cams, they are quite economical and a huge number of them are also able to take still pictures that you can use to make prints.
These are only a few of the ways that you can stay in touch with your loved ones over the miles that separate you - there are invariably many others that can enable you to feel like your grandma, grandpa or other relative is only right around the corner.
