Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.

I'm your host, Rachel, and I'm so excited for today's special episode with D.D. Moore. When Dedy found out she was going to be a grandmother, she searched the internet for advice on establishing a strong relationship with her grandchildren. Wow, we love that. When she couldn't find a website that offered what she was looking

for, she decided to start one herself. So Didi founded more than grand, and this is a way that she

shares inspiration and resources for grandparents and grandparents to be so that they can understand

the importance of their new role.

On her website and social media, Dedi creates a bridge from parent to grandparent and covers topics

that help new parents understand trends in child care and gives meaningful ways to help people

connect with their grandchildren. So I'm so excited for this conversation as I was talking to you

before we started recording. I have done an episode on this topic once before, but it was with my

own parents, which is a little bit different. So I mean, my parents are great, but you can't ask

all the questions you might want to, right? So I'm really excited to have you today. Thank you so much for

being here. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to have you today. Thank you so much for being here.

Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to talk to you and provide some conversation

for your listeners. Absolutely. So how old are your grandchildren now? They are now five,

almost seven and almost nine. Oh, wow. Okay. So similar ages to my own kids. So I love that you decided to

just create something from nothing when you couldn't find the types of resources you were looking

for. So first of all, I am so curious because I think it just takes so much foresight and just

emotional intelligence to even start looking for something like that. So I'm curious what

pushed you to even look for something like that. Did you have really close relationships with your

kids when they were growing up? Did you have close relationships with your own grandparents? What

was it that inspired you to look? I think it was just that I come from a family that we really all get along. We really like to be with each other. We like to support one another. And I was just really surprised that there wasn't a resource out there for moving into this really important rule, right? I mean, grandparenting, any grandparent will tell you it's one of the most important, most fulfilling things they've ever done. And yet, it's a role nobody prepares for.

Like, we just assume we can do it.

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