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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
The Ultimate Travel Gear Guide for Babies, Toddlers & Kids: Essentials for Stress-Free Travel Perfect for Baby Shower, New Baby, or Just Great Gifts
This Boomer Grandma learned years ago that we raised our children, the parents of our grandchildren, in the dark ages, and we do not know...
May 195 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 29, 20235 min read
Warmable Stuffed Animals For Babies, Children, Ill and Infirm, and More, Oh My. This Grandma’s Successful Search for the Perfect Teddy Bear for the Perfect Four Year Old Grandson
Our adorable four year old grandson’s teddy bear got eaten by the dog. I know we hear this excuse of “eaten by the dog” but he was so...
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Best Gifts for Graduations From Preschool to Graduate School 2022
PopPop and I have a four year grandchild who has a “moving up” ceremony this week, moving up from the three’s to pre kindergarten. He is...
May 29, 20223 min read
The Children’s Song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. . . “ Brings us To Three Important Tips For Boomer Grandparents’ “Eyes, Ears, Mouth, And Nose.”
Grandma loves the exercise and movement song to sing with grandchildren from toddlers to older than you would expect: Head, shoulders,...
Dec 24, 20214 min read
Three Preschooler Studies That Will Make Parents of Our Grandchildren Lives Better
This Grandma has collected Science Daily reported Baby Studies for over a decade and recently wrote a post on six of the best that...
Sep 30, 20213 min read
Thinking Posts About Masks Were Done Months Ago: Back To School With Masked Grandchildren is Not What This Grandma Expected
When I wrote the last blog post about masks, I really thought it was going to be my last. Now with schools starting in Florida, parents...
Sep 9, 20213 min read
Four 2021 Best Inexpensive Gadgets For Feeding Toddlers and Preschoolers That Are Perfect Baby Shower, First Birthday, and Visit Gifts That Parents Will Appreciate
We grandparents, (AV) after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, are planning multiple trips to visit grandchildren. We Florida grandparents...
May 13, 20213 min read
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jan 23, 20215 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
The Best and Worst About Our Grandchildren Safely Going To School This Coming School Year While the Pandemic, COVID-19, Is Still Among Us
This Grandma interviewed the three oldest grandchildren to preserve their memories about what life is like during the pandemic. The...
Jul 8, 20209 min read
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jun 10, 20205 min read
The Best New Teethers and Pacifiers and New Study That Parents SHOULD Suck on Them To Clean Them
One of the worst parts of the baby using teethers or pacifiers is when they land on the floor and there is nothing handy but one’s mouth...
Jan 24, 20196 min read
The Big Five in The Perfection of An Intimate Luxurious Safari Experience At Ivory Lodge, Lion Sands
Our Boomer grandparent bucket list of seeing wonders of the world included Victoria Falls in Africa, so Grandpa and I headed off to...
Sep 1, 20178 min read
Is the Thesaurus A Book About Dinosaurs or A Dinosaur to Our Grandchildren from Preschool to High School
Grandpa and I just saw a fabulous musical on Broadway, Bright Star, which is closing like some other fabulous musicals this season,...
Jul 23, 20164 min read
Grandmas Supporting Diversity For Preschool Toys and New Thomas the Train Products
Grandmas Supporting Diversity For Preschool Toys and New Thomas the Train Products. T oy companies seem to get criticized when there is...
Apr 2, 20164 min read
Etch A Sketch and Doodle Art is Part of Our Past But Is It Also Part of Our Grandchildren’s Future
Etch a Sketch was created by a French inventor in 1955, according to a business “Briefing” in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, February...
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Active Shooter Training and How to Talk to Grandchildren About Terrorism Are Things We Grandmas All Must Know
This Grandma has had active shooter training from our brave and courageous local law enforcement. The trainers said to pass along the...
Dec 25, 20159 min read
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