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From A Child of Holocaust Survivors Who Never Knew Grandparents: In 2020, We May Have to Picture Our
Until this date, March 24, 2020, the coronavirus outbreak, dangerous to us Boomers, has meant PopPop and I had to self quarantine, and we...
Mar 25, 20204 min read
Dear Grandchildren, The Year 2020 is Cancelled
This Grandma just got off the telephone with our oldest grandson, age 16, a junior in high school. It is March 16, 2020 at the end of...
Mar 18, 20206 min read
If Allowances Are A Tool To Teach About Money, How Grandparents’ “Bank” Is Perfect
The Harris Poll recently did a survey for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants about parents’ allowances for children,...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Grandparents Also need a Handy List of Questions to Ask Grandchildren That Will Get Them To Share About Their Day
We grandparents have Face Time. We grandparents have texting. We grandparents have old fashioned telephone contact. When we ask our...
Oct 9, 20193 min read
A Spiritual Leader’s Recollected Life Lesson to Share with Grandchildren
The Catholic Priest gave this homily* at the funeral of a dear friend recently. As he spoke, I recalled that I had heard this life...
Sep 11, 20192 min read
Because Everyone Has Something, There are Life Lessons to Pass on To Our Grandchildren
Great Grandmother (GG) Frieda, My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, who was taught Kabbalah by her Father, a Rabbi in the small shtetl (town)...
Jul 31, 20193 min read
Best Products and Tips New And Wonderful From the Mother of Her Third Child, Our Youngest Grandchild
This Grandma forgot the overwhelming joy a baby can bring to a family. After all, our youngest baby boy grandchild has brothers seven and...
May 22, 20193 min read
One Day University is Just Enough Of Lifelong Learning To Keep Our Boomer Brains Blossoming
Once Grandpa and I finally settled into semi-retirement mode, we started paying attention to our friends who had preceded us into leisure...
Apr 26, 20193 min read
Five New Important Facts About Breast Milk That May Make Everyone A Believer Who Were Not Convinced
This Grandma has written several posts about breastfeeding over the years, most saying that it should be a choice, nor guilting or...
Jan 31, 20193 min read
We American Jews Must Now Not Only Be Vigilant As We Have Joined the Vulnerable Ranks of Our Worldwide
It has been happening to Jews for many thousands of years. It has touched our family and we Jews, collectively and of my family, can...
Nov 2, 20186 min read
The Lessons This Grandma learned from Watching Parents Walk With and Engage Their Babies, Toddlers,
Spending a month in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I was surprised to see so many strollers and so few tourists. This is clearly New York...
Nov 1, 20185 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Possessions As We Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I hear in the news and media. Moreover, articles and advice columns about how our adult children do not...
Oct 17, 20184 min read
In This Reality Show World, Boomer Grandparents Have One Reprieve
The parents of our younger grandchildren watch “Big Brother.” We know. It seems to always be on when we visit. They tell us they like...
Sep 18, 20184 min read
As A Child of Holocaust Survivors, I Am Worried That History Is Repeating Itself
4 February 2017, West Point Cadets tour the Permanent Exhibition. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I feel that my unique background and...
Aug 15, 20186 min read
Giving You Easy Ways to Use Certain Classical Music Which Listened to in the Background For Twenty M
We Grandmas want to make things easy for our families and loved ones. When I read that research suggests that the soundtrack to your...
Jul 13, 20185 min read
It Is Worth Taking the Time To Opt Out For Privacy on Google, Email Accounts, Amazon, and Internet A
This Grandma watches the Today Show and Rossen Reports is a favorite segment. With the European Union cracking down on Facebook, and...
Jul 4, 20182 min read
Five Healthy Habits to Give Us Twelve to Fifteen Additional Years to Celebrate Milestones With Our Grandchildren and Only One Word To Remember
Since the birth of our first grandchild, Grandpa and I periodically converse about how old we are going to be when he graduates from high...
Jun 12, 20183 min read
Grateful for the Fathers In Our Lives This Father’s Day 2018 Seventy Years After the Holocaust
As I thought about this Father’s Day 2018, the year’s traumatic and potentially fatal health circumstances clearly highlighted thoughts...
May 30, 20184 min read
Why Boomers’ Lives May Depend On Paying attention To Oral Health and Periodontal Disease
Here is a short true-false quiz: (persistent is defined as two weeks or more) If you have persistent bad breath it may be a sign of...
May 16, 20183 min read
Be Aware and Beware of Little Known Adverse Consequences of DNA and Genetic Testing Before You Do Such and Before You Gift It to Loved Ones
“23 and Me” ads are all over the television. So many people gifted this ancestry and their health genetic testing or other companies’...
Apr 17, 20183 min read
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