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From Facebook About How Living Longer Brings Learning and Wisdom To Share to Improve Quality of Life
This Grandma is new to social media. When I was a sitting judge in Florida, I was constrained from participating in social media. I never...
Sep 19, 20213 min read
The Five Most Important Reasons Why and When NOT To Put Wedding and Family Photographs Away When The
In the May 18, 2021, Washington Pos t, Ms. Manners answered the following question at the end of her advice column: “Dear Miss Manners:...
Aug 8, 20213 min read
Gray Divorce is not About What You Are Reading In the Media: Hear It From A Retired Family Court Judge
The media hoopla around the divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates is the impetus for this blog post and my sharing of my thoughts on “gray”...
May 30, 20219 min read
To Have the Most Access to and the Best Relationship with Your Grandchildren, Always Go First to the Parent of Your Grandchildren Who is Your Child About Any Issue
I initially wrote this blog post a few years ago, long before the word “pandemic” was in our everyday vocabulary and has taken over our...
Mar 7, 20219 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
Twelve Tips on How We Grandparents Can Help the Parents of Our Grandchildren Survive Home 24-7 With Their Children
This Grandma tells the parents of our grandchildren that if they lament that a grandchild is behind in a skill or learning that the...
Apr 1, 20206 min read
When As A Grandparent, You Are Asked If You Love The First Grandchild the Best
When the first grandchild is born, it is a life passage event for the parents, but it is also a life passage event for the grandparents. ...
Jan 1, 20203 min read
Our Granddaughter’s Twinning at Yad Vashem’s Special Bar and Bat Mitzvah Tour And You Can Do it For Your Teen Too, In Your Home Town, Without Going to Jerusalem, Israel
Holocaust Education is mandated in many states and children all over the United States are taught the horrors of targeting people just...
Sep 4, 20194 min read
The Hidden Danger of High School Reunions and Why You Should Beware
The hidden danger of high school reunions is not what you would initially think. When I served on the family court bench, I was surprised...
Apr 19, 20195 min read
How We Grandparents Can Share What Our Grandchildren Will Never Know Otherwise Part 1: Reading and Writing Cursive Is No Longer Taught to Our Grandchildren
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...
Feb 6, 20197 min read
I am one of the Boomer Women Who Personally Experienced Discrimination “On The Basis of Sex”
I just saw the movie,“On the Basis of Sex,” and cannot share the “wow” moment in the movie for me without spoiling the movie for you. I...
Jan 17, 20194 min read
The Lessons This Grandma learned from Watching Parents Walk With and Engage Their Babies, Toddlers,
Spending a month in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I was surprised to see so many strollers and so few tourists. This is clearly New York...
Nov 1, 20185 min read
We Grandparents Should Be Thankful for the Grandchildren We Have Looking at Three Important Articles and A New Book as to Why Everyone Is Having Less Children And How We Can Grandparents Can Change Th
The recent news has bombarded this Grandma about how everyone in America is having less children. I must be thankful and grateful that I...
Aug 21, 20185 min read
Learning About Having #It All From Another Woman Who Has Had It All, But Not All At the Same Time
Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said she believes women can have it all, but perhaps not all at the...
Jun 27, 20184 min read
Inter-generational Friendships and Paying It Forward In the Decades of Life
Hearing my oldest daughter appreciate advice she received from someone who is a decade older who has already been through what my...
Feb 23, 20184 min read
We Grandparents Are Role Models For Civics and Civility And Good Manners To Our Grandchildren And More
I grimace and shake my head every time I am stopped at a crosswalk and a person with earbuds staring at his or her phone walks into the...
Feb 20, 20185 min read
Surprise at the Continuing Misunderstanding Regarding Joint Custody and What Grandparents Should Know About How To Handle Disputes Between the Parents of Our Grandchildren
Grandparents should only take one side in disputes between the parents of our grandchildren–the side of the grandchildren. Parental...
Feb 13, 20188 min read
Why We Boomers Should Respect and Acknowledge the Long Term Marriages Among Us
Being fortunate to be able to celebrate the anniversary of long years of our marriage, this Grandma appreciates what it took Grandpa and...
Sep 26, 20176 min read
This Grandma Says Always Go To The Parent of Your Grandchildren Who Is Your Child First About Any Is
This Grandma has several mantras, which you can see by reviewing the archives of this blog. Grandparenting should be all joy and no...
Sep 8, 20179 min read
Why Life Happens With Tears and Life Happens With Laughter and With Knowledge Comes Power to Understand and Cope With Life’s Challenges
When I was growing up, if something good happened and I told my Holocaust survivor mother, GG (great-grandmother), she said “pooh, pooh”...
Jun 27, 20175 min read
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