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This Grandma’s Favorite New Tip About Hugging Grandchildren, and Additional Five Best Tips on Personal Touch For All Ages and For Health Based On Scientific Research
This Grandma’s favorite tip about hugs is that you should never be the first to let go when you are hugging your grandchild. I learned...
Jun 164 min read
How Do You Know the Day That You Become Old?
When interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Warren Buffett, now 94 years old, was asked, “how did you know the day that you became old?”...
Jun 93 min read
Is there Anyone in the World, Including The Pope, Who Does Not Suffer From Imposter Syndrome?
Reading an article in the New York Times, May 1, 2025, about Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, once leader of the Church in the...
May 133 min read
ChatGPT Wrote This Blog Post. Part One: What is ChatGPT and Why Do We Care? Can Chat GPT be useful
The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 6, 2023, had an article about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT that is scary for us...
Apr 13, 20234 min read
Grandchildren Will Love Easy To Make July Fourth Red, White and Blue Dessert Kebabs
When Fourth of July rolls around, it is great to come up with red, white, and blue desserts to make with grandchildren. As with all the...
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Our Teenage Granddaughter’s Award Winning Poem Brought Back the Reality that Being a Teenager is Hard Anytime,Harder During A Global Pandemic & We Grandparents Can Make It Easier Now and in the Future
During the COVID-19 coronavirus lock down period in March and April, 2020, I interviewed our older grandchildren, two aged 13 and one...
Apr 29, 20223 min read
What Family Vacations, Grandchildren, and Grandparent Electronics Lessons Have in Common
Not especially tech savvy, I wait for family vacations to pester our older grandchildren and ask their help to make my use of electronics...
Aug 15, 20213 min read
Father’s Day After the Pandemic Shutdown: Planning Get Togethers and More Gift Ideas
Last year, Father’s Day was like no other, and this Grandma acknowledged that with gifts appropriate to that experience. Father’s Day...
Jun 6, 20212 min read
Having The Best Selection of 2020 Holiday Gifts in One Article For Anyone in the World is the Best R
This Grandma, for this blog, keeps folders of different topics on my Ipad. Whenever I read something I want to keep, I put it in a...
Dec 10, 20204 min read
The Best of the Best 2020 Christmas and Chanukah Gifts for Everyone and Especially Grandchildren in This Far From the Best Year for Celebration
Thanksgiving 2020 took a toll. Not only could this Grandma not cook small enough for two, nothing tasted as good as when the entire...
Dec 3, 20206 min read
The Difference in American Life due to COVID-19 Between March and April 2020 and November 2020: Pandemic Loss of Memories and Sharing Life Passage Events Brings Tears
When the pandemic lockdown occurred March, 2020, I videotaped the three oldest grandchildren for them to save and look at their videos in...
Nov 5, 20205 min read
Board Games Are Selling Out in the Pandemic So Buy Early to Get The Best For Everyone in the Family
Now that we all are spending more time at home, the news today included that we may have another run on toilet paper as the coronavirus...
Oct 29, 20204 min read
The 2019 Most Popular Baby Names Have Few Surprises But the Biggest Surprise is How The Impact Of Cu
This Grandma loves seeing the Social Security Administration’s listing of the most popular baby names of the year. If you put the term...
Oct 15, 20203 min read
Halloween Celebration and Decorating in the Age of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Everything seems different and chaotic in this COVID-19 coronavirus time in our lives. Each year this Grandma buys Halloween costumes...
Oct 7, 20204 min read
Taking A Virtual Zoom Baby Shower to the Next Level With the Best Four Tips
Yesterday, I participated in a Zoom baby shower given by one of my long (we never say old) dear friends for her son and daughter-in-law. ...
Sep 23, 20204 min read
The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpec
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every...
Sep 9, 20205 min read
PART TWO of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote or Part Time Learning and Any Time
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Sep 2, 20208 min read
PART ONE of Learning Tips to Pass Along and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote On Lin
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Aug 26, 20207 min read
Seven Great On Line Shopping Tips During COVID-19 or Anytime to Get the Best at the Best Price
In this time of COVID-19, spending more time in our homes, we are not only cleaning closets and reorganizing, we are looking to change or...
Aug 12, 20209 min read
Marvelous, Outrageous, Extraordinary, and Maybe Some Useful Face Masks In the Mix to Make or Choose From for the Present and Future
Although we are loathe to consider it, it seems that face masks are going to be a means of remaining safe from the coronavirus, COVID-19,...
Aug 5, 20205 min read
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