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The Five Most Important Reasons Why and When NOT To Put Wedding and Family Photographs Away When The Parents of Our Grandchildren Get Divorced
I have addressed this issue before, and seems that it is time to address it again. Sometimes simple answers do not provide a complete...
Nov 13, 20224 min read
In Honor of Grandparents Day 2022, This Grandma Shares the Top Ten Tips on Grand parenting and a Link To Best Tips in the Archives for New Grandparents
Grandparents Day, a day to show the bond between grandparents and grandchildren, is an official national holiday in the United States,...
Sep 4, 20226 min read
The Six Episodes of A Real Marriage of Movie Icons Paul Newman and JoAnn Woodward Will Provide Insight That Can Improve Your Own Relationship
As a family court judge, I served to dissolve tens of thousands of marriages over twenty years. Ethan Hawke (I had heard of him but knew...
Aug 13, 20225 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
Divorce Should Always Be A Last Resort, Even For “Gray” Divorces, Part II
In The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, February 7, 2022, Amy Dickinson’s column concerned a thirty seven year marriage and a wife in...
Apr 9, 20227 min read
Honoring My Mother-In-Law Today and Forever
Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post about my mother-in-law, “My Mother-in-Law, the Star,” honoring her and everything about her which made...
Nov 6, 20216 min read
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...
Oct 30, 20213 min read
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
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