Family Living
Focus
Nancy E. Wallace
Westmoreland Co.
Extension i
Grandparents,
Gifts And Holidays
“Over the river and through
the woods, to Grandmother’s
house we go.”
Today’s grandparents live in
the next house, in the next state,
or even in another country.
The grandparent (or elder) of
today is different from the
grandparent of yesterday. How
ever, giving gifts and getting gifts
are a universal challenge. What
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do we give Grandpa? Or, Grand
ma wants to know what to give
her grandson.
The answer lies in the defini
tion of “gift.’ Gifts are an expres
sion of love and caring. The gift
can be tangible or intangible.
Let’s look at some solutions to
the dilemma of gifts for grand
parents (and other elders, too.).
• Give the gift of apprecia
tion. Be genuinely involved with
the elders. Take time to visit.
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One of the most painful experi
ences a person can have is to be
ignored. Promise to visit with
Grandma once a week, either by
phone, by letter, e-mail or best of
all, in person. It’s nice to have
someone you like to come to visit
who thinks you are important.
• Exchange the gift of sharing
memories. Learn about the heri
tage of the family. Tell stories.
While sharing memories of the
past, children can also convey
happenings of today. Children
help elders better understand
what is happening to modern
day youth. Children keep grand
parents up to date with social
changes. Because elders are often
less threatening, the rapport be
tween elder and younger may be
easier. Grandparents can make
better listeners. The elder can be
come the bridge in the generation
gap.
Children fill the world of eld-
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coordinated an effort to review
the use of ozone as a food safety
additive, and then to obtain for
mal federal authorization for this
additive.
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ers with laughter as they enjoy
activities.
• Give the gift of activity.
Give an elder a book of free tick
ets to do things together. Chil
dren can make the special tickets
to give to Grandpa. The tickets
could be to fly a kite together,
take a walk, to make a scrap
book, to take them to church.
Promise to invite Grandma to
the school play or concert. Make
certain, however, that the gift
will not cost the elder any
money.
What can elders give young
sters?
• The gift of example. Grand
parents are great role models.
When children admire their
grandparents and other elders,
they may assume some of their
values. The values are copied.
Later, in life, children use what
they saw and experienced with
their elders as standard of behav-
in other countries in food pro
cessing, and in the U.S., for
water treatment, FDA regula
tions never listed it as an approv
ed food additive. Despite the des
ignation of ozone in 1997 as
“Generally Recognized as Safe”
(GRAS) by an independent panel
convened by EPRI, this still
meant federal approval of ozone
use required an extensive petition
for consideration by the FDA,
which already has accepted it,
filed it, and designated it for ex
pedited review a major hurdle
to pass since only one out of
every 10 to 12 petitions makes it
to the filing stage. Fined action
on the petition is expected by no
later than next February.
“Although the food safety sys
tem has worked well, it’s impor
tant to get ahead of the curve,
and the use of ozone as an anti
microbial agent can help the in
dustry do that,” said Dr. Chuck
Sopher, director of EPRI’s
AFTA, which is based in Wash
ington, D.C.
“Consumers view microbial
meaning germ and bacteria con
tamination as their highest food
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While being a role model, eld
ers become great teachers.
• They give the gift of learn
ing. Children enjoy learning
from “the Masters of fishing,
cooking, woodworking, sewing,
playing cards, etc.” Working side
by side is a true gift. Helping
children create and express
themselves is rewarding.
• Give children the gift of
hope for the future. By sharing
trials and tribulations, elders
show children that they, too, can
overcome life’s challenges. When
they speak with genuine pride at
their accomplishments, elders
represent success. The children
hear and see the success and they
follow.
The key to giving is to give
from the heart. The rewards are
many and will last for
generations. Make it a special
holiday.
safety concern, and the organ
isms responsible for diseases con
tinue to mutate. Ozone is an ex
tremely “user-friendly’ agent the
represents another weapon in the
arsenal to help assure the long
term safety of the U.S. food sup
ply.”
According to Dr. Dee Graham,
manager of EPRI’s AFTA Food
Office, ozone works as an oxi
dant to damage the cell walls of
harmful microorganisms, thus
killing them and leaving only
oxygen but no tastes, odors or
flavors as a by-product. Also,
because of ozone’s short half-life,
it leaves no residual in the food
(unlike chlorine).
Besides ozone’s initial applica
tion food additive, Sopher added
that it may offer other beneficial
uses in the long run, such as re
placing current agricultural pes
ticides that are being phased out
of use, enabling safe storage of
crops without the need for fumi
gation, and providing odor con
trol in the fish industry (such as
in fish markets) and in animal
operations (such as in hog
houses).