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Jan 23 min read
Three Fresh Ideas to Revamp Your New Year’s Resolutions for 2025
Every year, I challenge myself to bring something fresh to my New Year’s resolutions. Normally, I pass down a life lesson to my...
Jun 30, 20243 min read
Copy of Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID
Going on our third year into pandemic life, we’re all still adjusting mentally and physically to this abnormal state. Many of us feel the...
Mar 19, 20245 min read
As the Grandma Sandwich, This Grandma Rethinks “The Family Bed” Again and Its Impact on Our Grandchildren Getting Married and Becoming a Great Grandparent
Just recently, I was having lunch with two yoga buddies who were mutual grandparents of a three year old, their first and only...
Feb 25, 20245 min read
Four Simple Ways To Be More Positive and Grateful To Extend Longevity and Bring More Happiness to Your Life
This week, in Mah Jongg, someone laid out three tiles with two of them jokers. Jokers are a good thing in any game. Someone bemoaned that...
Feb 17, 20244 min read
If A Boomer Cannot Immediately Bring to Mind A Date, Name, or Word Does Not Mean He or She Is Impaired, Challenged, Or Lacks Wisdom, Intelligence, Or Competence
This Grandma is getting angrier and angrier about ageism. According to the World Health Organization, “ageism refers to the stereotypes...
Feb 11, 20244 min read
In the Midst of Worldwide Jewish Tsuris (Troubles), This Jewish Grandmother Adheres to Extinguishing the Darkness By Focusing on Light and Moral Clarity
It is not without irony that 2024 has brought us Jews worldwide tsuris (the Yiddish word for troubles), and also upheaval for the rest of...
Jan 13, 20249 min read
Entering the New Year 2024 with Great Trepidation, and Wishing It Was Not So
Upon the coming of the new year, for several years, I felt the need to write about my mother’s mantra that was uplifting and hopeful. See...
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Buzzfeed Listed Indispensable and Inexpensive Products For Parents That Will Make Grandparents Lives Easier Too So Buy For Their Home Too
This Grandma has become a Buzzfeed fan. I first saw the car seat opener, that is incredible and even easy for a mechanically challenged...
Nov 3, 20235 min read
The Truth Is Most Painful
My Mother, a Holocaust survivor, experienced inhumanity to man that I would wish on no one. She raised me with tikkun olam (meaning...
Oct 27, 20234 min read
The Five Best Rules and Regulations For In-Law Parents and All Grandparents That Make Them The Indispensable Go-To Grandparents
Why does this Grandma use the terms “rules and Regulations” and for “in-law parents”? If you, the reader, are asking, then you are new to...
Oct 3, 20234 min read
Where Do You Fall In the Controversy Over Clear Plastic or Bullet Proof School Backpacks For Our Grandchildren or Neither At All
It is easy to want to put school shootings out of your mind. Then school starts and the issue is again in front of you or put in front...
Aug 4, 20234 min read
The Most Significant Difference in Florida’s Evolution From “Early Bird” Comedian Fodder to Cool and Sophisticated “Happy Hour” As Mainstream Post COVID
This Grandma becomes a fifty-year Florida resident this month. Half a century. Hard to believe. When I moved to what is now called the...
Jul 29, 20235 min read
Reading and Writing Cursive May No Longer be Taught to Our Grandchildren: An Easy Three Step Process For Grandparents to Teach Grandchildren How to Create A Cursive Signature of Their Own
When this Grandma was a child, I remember hearing about how some would mark their signature with an X because they could not read or...
Jul 23, 20233 min read
There is One Summer Pool and Beach Toy for 2013 That Is Addictive To Children Age Three and Up
This Grandma looks for summer pool and beach toys every year, trying to find a true winner. The first place I look is the Oppenheimer Toy...
Jul 16, 20234 min read
When Does A Widow Take Off Her Wedding Band and How to Provide Support In the Grieving Process With Compassion
My blog, www.grandmother-blog.com, has evolved over almost a dozen years, from just being about grandmothering, to grandparenting,...
Jun 17, 20234 min read
With U.S. Births Held Flat, Can We Boomers Expect to Be Grandparents, How Do We Help to Become Grandparents, and the Ambivalence About It
I distinctly remember exactly where I was when I first found out I was going to be a grandmother for the first time. I admit the...
Jun 10, 20235 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Prized Possessions As We Do Our Spring Cleaning or Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I continually hear in the news and media. Moreover, especially during spring cleaning time, articles...
Jun 3, 20234 min read
The Best Relationship Advice of Two Questions This Grandma Has Learned to Share With Grandchildren
QUESTION NUMBER ONE Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged? How many times has someone dear to us been upset and we mistake their...
May 20, 20233 min read
Menopause is in the News Again But Where Are the Advancements to Address It: Each Woman For Herself
This is the third blog post this Grandma has written on menopause. Menopause is in the news again but where are the advancements to...
May 12, 20234 min read
You and Those You Love Playing Games With Will Be “Transformed” by Catan, an Award Winning Board Game Created By Klaus Teuber and Played Around the World
Because it mentioned our family’s beloved board game, Catan, in the title, I immediately went to an article in the New York Times, April...
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