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The New Eleventh Reason for Daily Stretching At The Forefront of the Exercise Craze for Children as Well As Adults is the POWER Benefit That is the Most Important Of All
All of a sudden, stretching is considered as important as exercise. Even if one does not exercise, the recommendation to stretch each...
Feb 18, 20176 min read
Five Examples of Teaching Grandchildren About Shopping and Returning What We Purchase in This New World of the American Shopping Experience
Our grandchildren learn about shopping as early as toddlers. No, it is not the comparison shopping of getting good quality at a good...
Jan 18, 20177 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
Home Remedies That Make Our Grandchildren’s Lives Easier – Part I The Experts As a Holiday Gift
This Grandma had never heard of Terry and Joe Graedon until I saw their column in the Sun Sentinel newspaper October 27, 2016. Here was...
Nov 29, 20164 min read
Sometimes Double Proof is Better to Show Grandpa that “Happy Wife, Happy Life” Is Always the Way to
Sometimes this Grandma holds on to a post idea about a study for years. Sometimes, the post idea about a study eventually seems...
Nov 4, 20164 min read
How Long Can We Go: The Definition of Aging Other Than the Passage of Years And Our “Health Span
This Grandma is compulsive about much, and reading as many articles about studies on aging is one of those compulsions that seems to grow...
Oct 20, 20165 min read
That Intelligence Comes From the Mother’s Side Is New Science But We Grandparents Can Contribute With Encouragement, Stimulation and Nourishment in the Grandchildren’s Environment
Both of our son-in-laws have jokingly commented at different points in time that they selected the mothers of their children, our...
Oct 4, 20163 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
Dirt, Nuts, Bad Hygiene and Habits Such As Nail Biting and Thumb Sucking May Have A Benefit After All
Whenever a parent of a grandchild is worried about something the grandchild is or is not doing, such as sleeping through the night, or...
Aug 18, 20164 min read
Grandma’s Win-Win For Every Generation With Adult Relationship Building Trips With the Help of Conde
One of this Grandma’s mantras is that life interferes with adult relationships and maintenance of intimacy is imperative to a good...
Mar 22, 20163 min read
Our Grandchildren Will Grow Up Just Fine Even Though We Are Not Raising Them, Even In Today’s Society When the Parents May Or May Not Be Married
A brand-new grandpa came up to me to show me the pictures of his new granddaughter. He was beaming just like all new grandparents. He...
Feb 23, 20165 min read
Part TWO of Exercise for Boomer Grandmas in 2016 is About Movement and Strength and Slowing the Aging Process
As I pointed out in post one on exercise for Boomer Grandmas in 2016, at the beginning of every New Year the news media is all about diet...
Jan 8, 20169 min read
Part ONE of Exercise for Boomer Grandmas in 2016 is About Brain, Mood, and Body In That Order
At the beginning of every New Year the news media is all about diet and exercise. We pay attention and start to diet and start to...
Jan 6, 20168 min read
Appendicitis, the Leading Reason For Emergency Surgeries in Children, Does Not Necessarily Mean Anes
Modern medicine is amazing. Our oldest grandson had surgery to remove his appendix just a year ago, and now there is a new study that...
Jan 2, 20164 min read
AARP Which Accepts Us As Members At Age 50 Warns Us of Our Body Taking Over With Yuck Factors Assigned
This Grandma still wonders how AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) still thinks we want to be members at age 50. When around...
Sep 18, 20154 min read
And So We Boomers Disappear at the End of This Century…
The article in the Washington Post June 26, 2015 caught my eye, “Social Issues: Census update shows more diverse society as baby-boom...
Aug 7, 20152 min read
Inside Out, The Movie, From the Grandparents’ Perspective of An Important Emotion Explained for Children With a Message For Us All
“Inside Out” was advertised everywhere. Disney said it was wonderful. Reviews said it was wonderful. If you live under a rock, the Pixar...
Jul 25, 20155 min read
Top Ten Places in the World With the Longest Life Expectancy At Birth
Twitter has really caught my interest. Getting interesting information in snipits is now in with this Grandma. I found the CNN post about...
Jul 21, 20152 min read
If Xylitol is So Great for Our Grandchildren’s Strep and Ear Infections, Why Haven’t Their Pediatricians Recommended It
This Grandma just went for her quarterly teeth cleaning. In the treatment room was a new large box of individually wrapped sugar free...
May 16, 20157 min read
Grandma’s Changing Role and Relationship With Grandchildren As They and We Live Longer
This Grandma always says we never get older, we live longer. That is different with our grandchildren. They cannot seem to want to wait...
May 14, 20155 min read
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