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Best Ways of Taking Back Control from Children With Smartphones and Computers in This Electronic Age
This Grandma is amazed at the number of our school aged grandchildren with smart phones, some as young as 7. According to a study by...
Mar 7, 20175 min read
Snapchat Taking Over Our Grandchildren’s World And Should We Be Worried About It Or Join By Buying Snap Spectacles for A Holiday Gift
Snapchat is a social media format that allows posts of pictures and photographs that can be enhanced by drawing on them and changing them...
Dec 29, 20164 min read
Just When “Mom” and “Dad” Lose Favor With One Generation They Gain A New Definition with Another In the Fast New World of Social Media
This Grandma tries hard to keep up with the fast moving Internet effect on our changing world. It is the 12th anniversary of Facebook,...
Dec 22, 20163 min read
The Best Headphones to Protect Hearing As A Gift For Toddler to Preteen Grandchildren Rather than Be
Headphones are a great gift item for grandchildren at any time of the year. We grandparents know how it is sitting in a car with...
Dec 19, 20165 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
It is Not Too Soon To Have Dear Abby’s Teen Car Contract and to Know What to Look for In Car Safety
This Grandma had a used car for the second daughter. However, newer safety features were not in the car, so it was traded up for a car...
Jan 12, 20165 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
American History Comes Alive For Us and Our Preteen and Older Grandchildren So Run, Do Not Walk, To See the Play of the Century, Hamilton
This Grandma is very lucky that her best friend from high school lives in Manhattan. She knows our love of theater and lets us in on the...
Nov 6, 20156 min read
Rubik’s Cube Fun For Grandchildren
Visiting the oldest grandchild, I found him playing unusually with a low tech toy–a Rubik’s Cube. He said he and his twelve year old...
Aug 28, 20152 min read
Different Grandparenting at Different Ages of Grandma and Grandchild
After helping the youngest two grandchildren get settled in their new home, this Grandma realized that her youngest grandchildren were...
Jul 23, 20155 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
Social Media is Changing the Grandparenting Landscape but Not As Much as the Parenting Landscape
My eleven year old grandson had just arrived for Thanksgiving. He was sitting on the couch smiling and burst into laughter. This Grandma...
Dec 29, 20143 min read
I Wish I Had Straight Talk Wireless Safe Driver Car Connection When I Was Parenting A New Teen Drive
A print advertisement in People Magazine caught my eye. It started, “Because you never stopped trying to keep them safe.’ Then it showed...
Oct 10, 20142 min read
When Preteens have a Smart Phone We Must Consider a New App Called Ignore No More
Our oldest grandchild has wanted a smart phone for almost a year. He has not taken no for an answer. He has not accepted that just...
Aug 26, 20143 min read
Are We Boomers the Last to Experience the American Dream?
All our lives, we Boomers heard how we changed society. All our lives, we Boomers heard how much more difficult it was for our large...
May 12, 20146 min read
Newtown Massacre and Grandma’s Responsibility
It is now nearly four weeks since the Newtown massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School and you would think the brutal news would not be...
Jan 24, 20139 min read
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