From Good to Great - and Now to The Bridge
Published June 11, 2026
Good to Great Grandparenting was about deepening your connection with your grandchildren. It was about understanding their world, showing up intentionally, and moving beyond good enough.
But there was a piece of the journey it didn’t fully address – the piece that, for many grandparents, is the hardest of all.
The relationship with their parents.
Neil Taft’s new book takes that on directly.
The Bridge to Your Grandchildren: What Their Parents Want You to Know is available now on Amazon Kindle for $4.99. The paperback edition ($13.99) arrives this week.
The Next Step in Intentional Grandparenting
The Good to Great framework is built on a core insight: great grandparenting doesn’t happen by accident. It requires intention, strategy, and the willingness to grow.
The Bridge to Your Grandchildren extends that framework into the relationship that most grandparents find the most difficult to navigate – the one with the parents of their grandchildren.
Neil’s TEDx Airlie talk this past May explored the themes at the heart of this book: that the grandparent-grandchild relationship is inseparable from the grandparent-parent relationship. You cannot have one without tending to the other.
And the viral moment that preceded the book – nearly 2 million views on TikTok when Neil told Evonne Varady on The Rebel Rootz Show that “the daughter-in-law or daughter is the queen on the throne” – confirmed that this was the conversation families everywhere had been waiting to have.
What Makes This Book the Natural Next Step
Good to Great Grandparenting helped you understand your grandchildren’s world and meet them where they are.
The Bridge to Your Grandchildren helps you understand the parents’ world – and meet them there too.
The two books work together. But The Bridge goes to a harder, more emotionally complex place. It asks grandparents to examine what it costs to be right, to sit with the gap between their perception and reality, and to build a genuine partnership with the parents – not because it’s easy, but because the alternative is distance from the grandchildren they love.
Key themes across the 16 chapters include:
The communication breakdown between grandparents and parents – and how to repair it
How to navigate family restrictions, boundaries, and expectations with grace rather than resentment
Long-distance connection strategies that actually work
What to do when things go seriously wrong – estrangement, alienation, divorce, conflict
How to build the kind of legacy that outlasts every disagreement
The Transformation This Book Offers
Before reading this book, many grandparents see the parents as the obstacle between them and their grandchildren.
After reading it, they see the parents as the bridge.
That shift – in perspective, in approach, in the daily choices that build or erode trust – is what this book is designed to create. And it’s the shift that makes everything else possible.
Get Your Copy
The Kindle edition is available now on Amazon for $4.99.
Buy on Amazon Kindle – $4.99
The paperback ($13.99) will be available on Amazon within the week – ideal for book clubs, church groups, and gifting to the grandparents in your family.
205 pages | ASIN: B0H2QYS1YC | The fifth book by Neil Taft
