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This Grandma’s Favorite New Tip About Hugging Grandchildren, and Additional Five Best Tips on Personal Touch For All Ages and For Health Based On Scientific Research
This Grandma’s favorite tip about hugs is that you should never be the first to let go when you are hugging your grandchild. I learned...
Jun 164 min read


The Ultimate Travel Gear Guide for Babies, Toddlers & Kids: Essentials for Stress-Free Travel Perfect for Baby Shower, New Baby, or Just Great Gifts
This Boomer Grandma learned years ago that we raised our children, the parents of our grandchildren, in the dark ages, and we do not know...
May 195 min read


Easy Nutella Pops Made With Three Ingredients To Make With Grandchildren, Beginning with Toddlers
This Grandma always checks whether I have written a previous blog post on a topic before I write a new post on a topic. I am always on a...
Sep 23, 20233 min read


Reading and Writing Cursive May No Longer be Taught to Our Grandchildren: An Easy Three Step Process For Grandparents to Teach Grandchildren How to Create A Cursive Signature of Their Own
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...
Jul 29, 20235 min read


Ten of the Best Creative and Useful Gifts From Grandparents For New Parents Up To Parents of Toddler
This Grandma always says that when I was a mother it was really the dark ages, we knew little and had little access to information other...
May 27, 20235 min read


New Technology gives us a Self Driving Stroller If You Want To Spend As Much as We Boomers Spent on Our First Cars and After A Serious Look Arguably is Justified in 2023
When my father used to tell my brother and me that he bought a loaf of rye bread for a nickel, and we had to buy a loaf of rye bread for...
Jan 15, 20234 min read


Warmable Stuffed Animals For Babies, Children, Ill and Infirm, and More, Oh My. This Grandma’s Successful Search for the Perfect Teddy Bear for the Perfect Four Year Old Grandson
Our adorable four year old grandson’s teddy bear got eaten by the dog. I know we hear this excuse of “eaten by the dog” but he was so...
Aug 26, 20224 min read


The Children’s Song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. . . “ Brings us To Three Important Tips For Boomer Grandparents’ “Eyes, Ears, Mouth, And Nose.”
Grandma loves the exercise and movement song to sing with grandchildren from toddlers to older than you would expect: Head, shoulders,...
Dec 24, 20214 min read


Six Studies That Give Useful Tips On Stimulation, Brain and Vocabulary Development in Babies and Toddlers
This Grandma has collected Science Daily reported Baby Studies for over a decade. Here are six of the best that include easy to...
Sep 4, 20214 min read


Four 2021 Best Inexpensive Gadgets For Feeding Toddlers and Preschoolers That Are Perfect Baby Shower, First Birthday, and Visit Gifts That Parents Will Appreciate
We grandparents, (AV) after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, are planning multiple trips to visit grandchildren. We Florida grandparents...
May 13, 20213 min read


Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jan 23, 20215 min read


Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jun 10, 20205 min read


Best 2020 Baby, Toddler, and Young Grandchild Gifts for Quarantined Parents and Parents-to-be
Researching for this blog post, this Grandma came across the most interesting brand new potty. Yes, with two grandsons now over age two,...
Apr 15, 20205 min read


The Terrible Twos From This The Terrible Twos From This Grandma’s perspective and SEVEN TIPS THAT WORK for the Sanity of Grandma and the Safety of Our Precious “TWOISH” Grandchildren
I nearly drowned the last visit with our youngest grandchild, nearly overwhelmed as our precious youngest grandson, 21 months old, began...
Jan 22, 20206 min read


How To Select the Best Award Winning Toys For All Ages For Holidays 2019
Even our toddler grandchildren crave electronics. Our youngest grandson, only nineteen months old, can manipulate the I Phone during...
Dec 11, 20194 min read


If You Have A Toddler Grandchild, Baby Shark Has Already Invaded Your Brain, and Will Add To Your Ho
On our last visit to our youngest grandchild, a toddler, his eight year old brother was humming a tune we grandparents were not familiar...
Nov 20, 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


Quality and Reasonably Priced Plastic American Made Toys Are A Hit To Buy And Put Away For Special Gifts and Holiday Presents
A long (we never say old) dear friend called for advice about toys for her grandson and the third child in a family. It is always a...
Oct 25, 20183 min read


New Baby Clothing Made With Magnet Closures Make Middle of the Night Changes A Breeze
Onesie footies are always the key for newborn and baby dress, although this grandma does love the gowns. Our daughter in law and son,...
Jun 6, 20182 min read


Two Best Baked Apple Recipes With No Added Sugar For Toddlers To Adults
We know sugar is our enemy. As a post menopausal woman, I was advised that my body could not process sugar but could process fat, and...
Mar 6, 20183 min read
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