Six Tips To Remember for The Best Bargains For “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” 2018 and For Shopping
This Grandma has the life experience of remembering when “brick and mortar” stores controlled and is living through the change to...
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Dec 6, 201711 min read
What Should Be In Our Grandchildren’s Future After the Sexual Harassment “Empowerment Revolution” and What Can We Grandparents Do To Help
As Megyn Kelly stated November 29, 2017 on her NBC morning show immediately after Matt Lauer was fired without notice due to charges of...
Nov 29, 20173 min read
How to Make Shopping in the Mall with Grandchildren of All Ages and Sexes a Pleasurable Experience
When our daughters were small, they hated going shopping with me. It was a chore for them to accompany me, even if it was for clothing...
Nov 8, 20173 min read
The Joys of Walking With Grandchildren Of Every Age and Activities and Memories of Sharing Along the Way
We grandparents know that walking is good for our health. See WebMD . Walking is also wonderful as an activity with the youngest of...
Nov 3, 20174 min read
Top Four Tips For Grandparents To Conquer Sibling Rivalry
A dear grandma friend complained that her two grandsons, ages nine and seven, constantly fight. Their parents separate them by sending...
Oct 28, 20173 min read
Interesting and Important Smelly Facts Regarding the Differences Between Men and Women
This Grandma remembers a story about a fire and a dear friend who was pregnant. She was sitting on the front porch with her husband and...
Oct 6, 20172 min read
Archives Must Reads For New Grandmas: Part I Grandma Lessons and Tips
A dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for new grandmas from my archives. I...
Sep 26, 20176 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...
Aug 22, 20173 min read
Things We Learned In Kindergarten and How to Cope and Have Our Children and Grandchildren Cope With Current Events From Michael Balaban, President & CEO Jewish Federation of Broward County
This email was sent to many of us in South Florida Friday, August 18, 2017, from Michael Balaban, President & CEO Jewish Federation of...
Jul 18, 20173 min read
The Easiest and Best Way to Detox Grandchildren From Electronics
This Grandma believes that electronics are grandparents’ friend. When we are tired, or want some quiet time, or especially when we take...
Jun 27, 20175 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 23, 20173 min read
Are Your Grandchildren Ready For An Emergency and Know How to Call 911?
This Grandma watches the Today Show as much as possible. One of my favorite segments is “Rossen Reports.” May 8, 2017, “Would your...
Jun 9, 20176 min read
What A Grandchild Quitting Something Teaches Grandma and Grandpa As Well As the Grandchild
Even before Christine Gray’s mother stated in “Fifty Shades of Gray,” that children should be exposed to a second language, music lessons...
Jun 3, 20175 min read
We Boomer Grandparents are Seventy Million Strong and Now Have the Greatest Power To Change Our World
The May 2017 AARP Bulletin had a lead story on how we Boomers are “The Grandparent Boom! A Record 70 Million Americans have...
Jun 1, 20175 min read
Why This Grandma Thinks Procrastination is A Disease of Retirement And The Cure
This Grandma prides herself on a lifetime of organization and the ability to multi task and get things done. I hate “To Do” lists and...
Feb 28, 20174 min read
”Hidden Figures” Gives Us An Opportunity to Share What Has Been Hidden With Our Grandchildren And To Impart Core Moral Values
A dear grandma friend took her three oldest grandchildren to see the movie, “Hidden Figures.” She told me that all three, including the...
Feb 6, 20176 min read
Why We Grandmas Should Be Nuts Over the Change in Exposing Our Grandchildren To Nuts As Babies
When we grandmas were having our first babies, we were in the dark ages of information about child rearing. Now we are in the era of...
Jan 27, 20174 min read
A New Hands Free Holder to Bottle Feed A Baby Designed by A New Father For All New Parents and Grand
Feeding a newborn is one of this Grandma’s favorite activities. I love how the baby feels in my arms. I love how the baby smells, after...
Jan 24, 20174 min read
See the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus With Your Grandchildren By May 2017 Before It Is Too Late and They Fold ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ Forever
146 years is how long the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has enthralled children of all ages with performances of “The...
Jan 18, 20177 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...
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