Grandparents using smart technology to stay in touch with family members

Staying in touch with your grandchildren at Christmas has never been easier thanks to fast-evolving mobile technology, writes Margaret Jennings.

IT’S hard to surpass the feelgood glow of that magical warm hug when grandchildren wrap themselves around you on the first meet-up after a long absence — it’s like all your Christmases have come at once.

The emotional undercurrent revving up the intensity of that cuddle, is the mutual awareness that time together is so precious — this is the stratospheric excitement of the ‘hello’, but waiting in the wings is the stomach-churning ‘goodbye’.