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Maternity Clothing Then and Now, Its Future and More For Women, Being Created, Fostered, and Modeled
When I look at the photographs of the maternity clothing my mother wore when pregnant with me in 1946 and the maternity clothing I wore...
Aug 19, 20234 min read
The Best Advice to Give Our Sons and Grandsons After the Roe v. Wade Decision is to Wear A Condom Or They May Be Giving A Large Percentage of Their Net Income for Eighteen Years To A Woman Whose Last
The above advice was how I started a speech to a professional legal group, mostly men, when I was a sitting Florida family court judge...
Jul 9, 20224 min read
Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder...
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Para
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I...
Oct 21, 20207 min read
A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 19, 202010 min read
Five New Important Facts About Breast Milk That May Make Everyone A Believer Who Were Not Convinced
This Grandma has written several posts about breastfeeding over the years, most saying that it should be a choice, nor guilting or...
Jan 31, 20193 min read
The First Pregnancy and Baby Advice and Information Has Changed Beyond Recognition With Our Grandchildren’s Generation
When this Grandma’s children, now in their forties, were babies, cereal was the first food to introduce to the baby, and after a few...
Sep 5, 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
Preserving Family History Leads To Much Less than Six Degrees of Separation with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Future Connecting With the Significant Past
“Six Degrees of Separation” a play and movie of our Boomer generation, written by American playwright John Guare, opened on Broadway in...
Apr 8, 20189 min read
Interesting and Important Smelly Facts Regarding the Differences Between Men and Women
This Grandma remembers a story about a fire and a dear friend who was pregnant. She was sitting on the front porch with her husband and...
Oct 28, 20173 min read
Our Enchanted 2017 Multigenerational Vacation in Sedona, Arizona at the Enchantment Resort and the Grand Canyon: Part III The Best Itinerary for Sedona, the Enchantment Resort, and the Grand Canyon
Once the entire multigenerational family agreed on location and travel arrangements, this Grandma went to work on the best itinerary for...
Jul 25, 20179 min read
Six Tips On How Grandma Can Be the Maternity Concierge and Continuing Concierge to the Parents of Our Grandchildren Or Not
The Today Show, on May 11, 2017, had a segment about an admirable new project, maternity concierge, that businesses are starting. They...
May 23, 20178 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
What Grandmas Know About Babies Sleeping Through The Night Predates the Studies and Shows The Value
There is no better teacher than experience when it comes to babies and sleeping through the night. Grandmas have the edge over the...
Oct 27, 20166 min read
Prepping For Baby Number Two As The Hollywood Stars Do
It seems that many Hollywood stars are in the baby way for the second time. In the Sun Sentinel, April 27, 2016, it was reported that...
May 13, 20164 min read
Postscript and More Ideas After Documenting Baby’s Growth Month By Month During the First Year With Onesies, Belly Stickers and Huge Stuffed Animals
A dear long (we never say old) grandma friend just celebrated her youngest granddaughter’s first birthday. During the baby’s first year,...
Apr 5, 20162 min read
Depression of Either or Both Parents of Our Grandchildren, Before or After the Birth, is Something We Grandmas Can Identify and Should
Within the last few weeks, pre and post partem depression is in the news, first for women. At the end of January 2016, the United States...
Feb 18, 20167 min read
Fast Forward From C-Sections Unnecessary and Dangerous to Not Enough Shows Pendulum Swings Too Far are Dangerous and Unnecessary Or Is It In the Reporting of the Studies
When our oldest grandson was born in 2003, our older daughter had an emergency c-section as the umbilical cord was wrapped around his...
Feb 4, 20165 min read
Healthy Grandchildren in 2016 With healthychildren.org and Baked Chicken Tenders
The news about the Zika virus passed by mosquitos is all over the news. The news about the children in Flint, Michigan being exposed to...
Jan 31, 20162 min read
Text4Baby is the New Technology For Parents and Grandparents
When this Grandma was a new mother, I had little information at my fingertips. Dr. Spock was it. Yes, we too felt that our parents were...
Sep 29, 20152 min read
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