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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
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
Grandmas Doing their Part to Get Rid of Maternal Guilt Forever
Not everyone agrees with the article, “Mounting Evidence of Advantages for Children of Working Mothers,” in the New York Times, May 15,...
Jun 20, 20153 min read
Grandma Gives Positive Solutions to Mother’s Day Disappointment and Family Discord
Carolyn Hax, on May 24, 2015 in the Miami Herald, wrote concerning a letter received about Mother’s Day disappointment. Family fallout...
Jun 5, 20154 min read
Grace and Frankie, and Grandma Find a Home on Netflix, If Only We Could Turn On Our Smart TV
There are some admissions this Grandma can make in this blog that she would never admit out loud. This Grandma can remember coming home...
Jun 3, 20154 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
Not Just Another Hallmark Holiday To Celebrate When We Celebrate Siblings: More Than Sharing Fifty percent of the Same Genes
This Grandma was taught about Siblings Day from her oldest grandson. He put a picture on Instagram of his sister and himself and was...
Apr 16, 20156 min read
There is Now Proof that Our Children and Grandchildren Will Survive Parenting “Mistakes”
This Grandma likes to assuage all new parents’ fears and concerns. New parents worry about everything. I like to say, “There is no right...
Feb 18, 20153 min read
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