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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LESLEY STAHL CONTACT: Lonnie Stonitsch, Executive Director of FAN, [email protected]

Thursday, April 6, 2017, Becoming Grandma: The Joy and Science of the New Grandparenting, 7:00 PM, New Trier High School, Northfield Campus, Cornog Auditorium, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL 60093. As American life expectancies have increased over the past decades, seniors have ever more opportunities for extended involvement in the lives of their children and grandchildren. For this talk, Lesley Stahl, one of America’s most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, and the author of the bestselling book Becoming Grandma: The Joy and Science of the New Grandparenting, will offer a personal memoir about her own experiences upon becoming a grandmother. Enjoying many of the incredible highs of her new role, she soon became curious about this life-altering event, and set out to understand th4e challenges, rewards, and emotions that came with her new identity. Ms. Stahl will be in conversation with Heidi Stevens, the “Balancing Act” columnist for the Chicago Tribune.

Using her skills as an investigative reporter, Ms. Stahl set out to document the biochemistry, history, psychology, and economics of becoming a grandparent. She interweaves this research with personal anecdotes and wisdom from her friend group (Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Sawyer, Cokie Roberts, and others) and from a wide array of other remarkable women. She explores the myriad relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren, and navigating the boundaries between a grandparent, the parent and the grandchild can be tricky. More grandparents are living with a grandchild in the U.S. than ever before, nearly 7 million in 2013, up from 5.8 million in 2000, and 37% of those serve as their grandchild’s primary caregiver. Significantly, baby boomers are a new type of grandparent – they younger, more energetic, and they’re spending more money on their grandchildren than any other generation in history, spending seven times more than grandparents just 10 years ago. Ms. Stahl urges today’s grandparents to help as much as they can, because today’s parents have never had more stress – for some, incomes have stagnated, working hours are long, and many have extensive travel requirements. Grandparents are needed more than ever – and grandparenting, as Ms. Stahl learned, also reaps health benefits for the grandparent.

Ms. Stahl has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 1991; before joining 60 Minutes, Ms. Stahl served as CBS News White House correspondent during the Carter, Reagan, and part of the George H.W. Bush presidencies. She also hosted Face the Nation from 1983 to 1991 and co-anchored America Tonight from 1989 to 1990.

Sponsored by Family Action Network (FAN), in partnership with Erikson Institute. FAN is grateful for the support of its 2016-17 annual sponsors Compass Health Center, Evanston Township High School D202, New Trier High School D203, the Martin & Mary L. Boyer Foundation, Magnetar Capital, the Mammel Foundation, and Tina & Byron Trott; our strategic partners Acclaim Media, the Butler Family Foundation, Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University, Curt’s Café, Erikson Institute, Evanston/Skokie D65, the Finnegan Family Foundation, Hackstudio, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, the Master of Science in Education Program at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, the McGaw YMCA, National Alliance on Mental Illness – Cook Country North Suburban, New Trier Parents’ Association, North Shore Community Bank, Northern Suburban Special Education District (NSSED), Northwestern University, ReDefined Fitness, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Victories, and Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.); and our in-kind sponsors Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Turing Group.