I wanted to form a relationship with my new grandson Milo, but he lives far away, so I created Grandparent Games, which you can use for free!

I lived in California when my daughter Hana was born. My parents lived in Brooklyn. They visited now and then, and we visited them, so Hana knew who they were. Then, when Hana was just over one year old, we moved to Switzerland. In those days, phone calls were somewhat expensive, especially overseas, but this didn’t stop my parents from calling every week. This was their only grandchild and they were far away from her, so they wanted to talk to her. But talk about what?

It’s not that easy to talk to a one-and-a-half year old on the phone. For Hana’s part, she loved talking to them. She walked around in circles as she talked, just like her father does, and made noises into the phone.

One day, I had a thought. Hana had a book called “One Two Three with Ant and Bee” or something like that. In this book Ant and Bee collected stuff and then counted it out. There was a piece that Hana had memorized that went something like: one apple, two tarts, three bananas, four whatever…

I told my mother to say “one apple…” into the phone. She did so and Hana said loudly back to her “two tarts!” This was a fun game. Now Hana was talking to her grandmother. They both loved the experience.

More than thirty years have passed since then and I now have 3 grandchildren — Milo, Max and Mira.  When my first grandchild Milo was born, my daughter Hana lived in New York while I lived in Florida. I wanted to be a part of Milo’s life, but the question was: “How?” Hello internet! Thanks to Milo (and Hana too) Grandparent Games was born.

Now, I also use it to play with my newest grandson, Max. But it is also part of a plan of mine to teach reading, math, geography and a few other subjects in the right way to little kids before school screws it all up.

You can entertain and education your little ones on the go with the iPhone and iPod Touch Apps from Grandparent Games.