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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


This Grandma Has Just Upped the Acceptable Marriage Age For Her Grandchildren
“Life is making choices and living with the consequences of the choices we make.” In Boomers’ parents’ age, that saying meant once you...
Aug 29, 20184 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


Fourth Trimester and Optimal Age for Human Baby and Puppy Cuteness Optimization Are the Same
With two new baby grandsons, the difficulty of the new parent experience is relived. This Grandma equates it to being a hamster on a...
Jun 20, 20184 min read


Teenagers are Like Two Year Old and We Must Remind the Parents of Our Grandchildren to Treat Them As Such
Oftentimes, in my twenty years as a family court judge, I found divorcing parents fighting over time with their teenagers. I was always...
Mar 25, 20183 min read


Happiness is Now Taught In College As the Younger Generation Seems to Need Be Taught What Happiness
The big news across media platforms that are viewed by us Boomers is Professor Laurie Santos’s “Psychology and the Good Life,” course at...
Mar 10, 20183 min read


The Secrets of “Grandparents: The Grandbabies’ Great Reward” Revealed
Our dear grandparent friends whispered that they bought Florida Prepaid College Plans for each of their grandchildren upon each baby’s...
Jun 20, 20173 min read


Best of Boston With Grandchildren or As a Multigenerational Vacation in 2016 and 2017
In 2012, this Grandma wrote a post about the Best of Boston with grandchildren . That was when we took our oldest grandson to Boston for...
Aug 16, 201610 min read


Collage For Mother’s Day 2016 for Grandma To Make With Grandchildren
This Grandma loves to read the New York Times real estate section. I have done so for most of my adult life. One of my favorite...
May 5, 20162 min read


Think Puzzles For Under Twenty Dollar Holiday Presents For Grandchildren of All Ages And From Grandchildren For Us Boomer Grandmas
This Grandma always knew puzzles are good for our grand children’s brains, but not exactly why, so I went on line, and found the...
Dec 3, 20155 min read


Hot Dogs Do Deserve Their Own National Day of Celebration
Hot dogs happen to rank among this Grandma’s favorite food. As a freshman in college in Boston, a bunch of us got an urge for a Nathan’s...
Sep 4, 20153 min read


The Best of San Francisco With Grandchildren and Books to Enjoy About the City
There are many websites with tips on where to take children in San Francisco. All agree that San Francisco is a top travel destination...
Jul 12, 20159 min read


Grandma’s Meaning of Old and Cold and Researching Slowing Time Leads to a Future Goal
An arctic blast has covered most of the U.S. Every state is cold. Being the Grandma in South Florida, just under sixty degrees means...
Dec 27, 20145 min read


Is Retiring in Place “Finding the Sweet Spot in Deciding Where to Retire”?
The article printed June 14, 2014 in the New York Times, “Finding the Sweet Spot in Deciding Where to Retire,” by Kerry Hannon, rehashed...
Jul 6, 20143 min read


Will I Ever Be a Grandma?
A friend recently lamented that her late thirty something child had not yet met a permanent mate. She worries, “Will I ever be a...
Mar 13, 20142 min read


Grandma Says Buy a Doll for Your Grandson in 2014
In 2013, men could not win. The same day, December 28, 2013, the Miami Herald had two articles about men, both about gender issues. The...
Jan 5, 20144 min read


Promoting Coding Grandchildren
Sometimes, this Grandma thinks that technology is moving faster than our society can keep up. Most of the time, I am surprised at the...
Dec 16, 20135 min read


A Modern Day College Educated Nanny
This Grandma finds that the parents of my grandchildren, and many of the children of the grandmas she knows, fit the profile of the...
Oct 17, 20133 min read


Sippy Cup Culture
Everything these days is a “culture,” an indispensable part of life. So in the “Who Made That?” innovation column in the New York...
Sep 5, 20132 min read


Grandma’s View on “Opting-Out” and Returning to the Workforce
Ten years ago, Lisa Belkin, an author for the New York Times, wrote an article on the “opt-out revolution” about the women who left their...
Sep 3, 20133 min read
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