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Things We Learned In Kindergarten and How to Cope and Have Our Children and Grandchildren Cope With Current Events From Michael Balaban, President & CEO Jewish Federation of Broward County
This email was sent to many of us in South Florida Friday, August 18, 2017, from Michael Balaban, President & CEO Jewish Federation of...
Aug 22, 20173 min read
The Five Love Languages Apply to Grandchildren Too
At a professional luncheon, a few years ago, a new mother, a forty something marital and family lawyer, asked me if I had read the book...
Aug 10, 20173 min read
The Easiest and Best Way to Detox Grandchildren From Electronics
This Grandma believes that electronics are grandparents’ friend. When we are tired, or want some quiet time, or especially when we take...
Jul 18, 20173 min read
Are Your Grandchildren Ready For An Emergency and Know How to Call 911?
This Grandma watches the Today Show as much as possible. One of my favorite segments is “Rossen Reports.” May 8, 2017, “Would your...
Jun 23, 20173 min read
What A Grandchild Quitting Something Teaches Grandma and Grandpa As Well As the Grandchild
Even before Christine Gray’s mother stated in “Fifty Shades of Gray,” that children should be exposed to a second language, music lessons...
Jun 9, 20176 min read
”Hidden Figures” Gives Us An Opportunity to Share What Has Been Hidden With Our Grandchildren And To Impart Core Moral Values
A dear grandma friend took her three oldest grandchildren to see the movie, “Hidden Figures.” She told me that all three, including the...
Feb 28, 20174 min read
Why We Grandmas Should Be Nuts Over the Change in Exposing Our Grandchildren To Nuts As Babies
When we grandmas were having our first babies, we were in the dark ages of information about child rearing. Now we are in the era of...
Feb 6, 20176 min read
A New Hands Free Holder to Bottle Feed A Baby Designed by A New Father For All New Parents and Grand
Feeding a newborn is one of this Grandma’s favorite activities. I love how the baby feels in my arms. I love how the baby smells, after...
Jan 27, 20174 min read
See the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus With Your Grandchildren By May 2017 Before It Is Too Late and They Fold ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ Forever
146 years is how long the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has enthralled children of all ages with performances of “The...
Jan 24, 20174 min read
Snapchat Taking Over Our Grandchildren’s World And Should We Be Worried About It Or Join By Buying Snap Spectacles for A Holiday Gift
Snapchat is a social media format that allows posts of pictures and photographs that can be enhanced by drawing on them and changing them...
Dec 29, 20164 min read
Just When “Mom” and “Dad” Lose Favor With One Generation They Gain A New Definition with Another In the Fast New World of Social Media
This Grandma tries hard to keep up with the fast moving Internet effect on our changing world. It is the 12th anniversary of Facebook,...
Dec 22, 20163 min read
If “PaPa” is Now the Favored Name for “Daddy” and ” MaMa” Is the favored Name for “Mommy” What Should We Boomer Grandparents Be Called
In the car, December 1, 2016, this Grandma heard a radio commentator say that the term “Dad” is out as it makes the father more distant...
Dec 15, 20162 min read
Home Remedies That Make Our Lives Easier — Part II –And How We Must Preserve Our Own Fam
In Part I of home remedies that make our grandchildren’s lives easier, I concentrated on Terry and Joe Graedon and their home remedies....
Dec 2, 20166 min read
The Ten Happiest Songs On Earth List Shows It Depends On Who is Choosing the Happiest Song
I watch the Today Show each weekday morning and when this Grandma saw there was a study done on the ten happiest songs on earth, it...
Nov 12, 20162 min read
Is For Profit “Day Care” in Boomer Grandparents’ Future And For Whose Benefit
This Grandma thinks about today and being “young old.” As GG (great-grandmother) at almost age 93 lives alone and is self sufficient,...
Sep 22, 20163 min read
“Young Old,” Wiser, Happier and More From Which Those Not As Fortunate in Years Can Learn
I never in a million years could imagine it could be. In younger years, I could not imagine reaching age 70. In younger years, I thought...
Sep 19, 20163 min read
When A Boomer Grandparent Becomes An Orphan
With tears in my own eyes, this Grandma just heard of the death, minutes ago, of a long (we never say old) dear friend’s mother. She was...
Sep 8, 20162 min read
The Texting Generation Versus the Telephone Generation, Both of Whom Are the Parents of Our Grandchildren, And Who Knows What the Future Communication Will Be
This Boomer Grandma has been contemplating lately, having lived almost 70 years, how technology and communication have changed and...
Sep 6, 20165 min read
Teeth and Dental Health Is In the News and the Best Good News is Less Dentist Drilling Is In All of Our Futures, Especially Grandchildren
One of this Grandma’s favorite gifts to buy the grandchildren is a new battery operated toothbrush. We adults know that we should...
Sep 1, 20166 min read
Grandparents’ Favoritism Is Real In Many Families and Its Consequences May Last Generations
Very often this Grandma is asked by grandparents if there is a difference between being the grandparents of a son’s children or a...
Aug 7, 20166 min read
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