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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
Five Examples of Teaching Grandchildren About Shopping and Returning What We Purchase in This New World of the American Shopping Experience
Our grandchildren learn about shopping as early as toddlers. No, it is not the comparison shopping of getting good quality at a good...
Jan 18, 20177 min read
Expectations and Disappointment in the Search for Perfect Grandparents
Family relationships are complicated. The same DNA does not guarantee family bliss. Somehow there is an expectation that when a...
Jan 9, 20175 min read
Entering the Unknown World of Retirement and the New Busy as a Baby Boomer Grandma
This Grandma is beginning a new adventure, the unknown world of retirement. It seems that as a Baby Boomer, at every stage of this...
Jan 5, 20174 min read
How Many Visits To Grandma Are Too Many
It has taken this Grandma a while to ponder “Judge John Hodgman on Too Many Trips to Ohio With Your Baby,” originally published in the...
Nov 17, 20163 min read
Sometimes Double Proof is Better to Show Grandpa that “Happy Wife, Happy Life” Is Always the Way to
Sometimes this Grandma holds on to a post idea about a study for years. Sometimes, the post idea about a study eventually seems...
Nov 4, 20164 min read
Grandparents’ Favoritism Is Real In Many Families and Its Consequences May Last Generations
Very often this Grandma is asked by grandparents if there is a difference between being the grandparents of a son’s children or a...
Aug 7, 20166 min read
Grandma’s Win-Win For Every Generation With Adult Relationship Building Trips With the Help of Conde
One of this Grandma’s mantras is that life interferes with adult relationships and maintenance of intimacy is imperative to a good...
Mar 22, 20163 min read
Sharing What Works In Life and Leadership From A National Leader to Share With Grandchildren
A dear friend sent me a list of twelve rules says that she called an “Inspirational Message.” She attributed these to General Colin...
Mar 8, 20165 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
As Grandmas Do We End Up Moving Closer to the Parents of Our Grandchildren and Our Grandchildren Or Do They Move Closer to Us Leads to a Weighty Decision for Boomers
Nearing a half century ago, one set of our parents moved to South Florida before us when we were in our twenties. We visited this...
Jan 16, 20168 min read
InstaMom, the New Stage Mother, and What This Means in Our New Society and For Our Grandchildren
Reading a New York Times article, November 14, 2015, about mothers hiring professional photographers and setting their children up with...
Dec 1, 20153 min read
Mother-in Law Day is for Mother in law to be Deserving of the Honor of Having a Day Named After Her
Mother-in-Law Day is October 25 this year, celebrated the fourth Sunday in October since 2002. If you read about this day, one would...
Oct 27, 20158 min read
Grandma’s Top three Tips to Help the Marriage of the Parents of the Grandchildren Avoid the Doldrums
In this Grandma’s era of a mid term marriage in the doldrums, it was called the “seven year itch.” Now, it seems it is called the “ten...
Sep 6, 20155 min read
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