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...
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Jan 5, 20174 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 2, 20178 min read
2017 New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017! In this new era of seeking and collecting experiences instead of things, the articles about proposed 2017 New Year’s...
Dec 29, 20164 min read
Snapchat Taking Over Our Grandchildren’s World And Should We Be Worried About It Or Join By Buying Snap Spectacles for A Holiday Gift
Snapchat is a social media format that allows posts of pictures and photographs that can be enhanced by drawing on them and changing them...
Dec 22, 20163 min read
Just When “Mom” and “Dad” Lose Favor With One Generation They Gain A New Definition with Another In the Fast New World of Social Media
This Grandma tries hard to keep up with the fast moving Internet effect on our changing world. It is the 12th anniversary of Facebook,...
Nov 4, 20164 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...
Oct 29, 20168 min read
Yiddish Words That Will Serve You well In Life and ToTranscend Generations From the Past to the Future
This Grandma, born in a displaced person’s camp in Germany, knew the power of the Yiddish language from the phrases my parents used and...
Oct 27, 20166 min read
What Grandmas Know About Babies Sleeping Through The Night Predates the Studies and Shows The Value
There is no better teacher than experience when it comes to babies and sleeping through the night. Grandmas have the edge over the...
Oct 20, 20165 min read
How Long Can We Go: The Definition of Aging Other Than the Passage of Years And Our “Health Span
This Grandma is compulsive about much, and reading as many articles about studies on aging is one of those compulsions that seems to grow...
Sep 22, 20163 min read
Is For Profit “Day Care” in Boomer Grandparents’ Future And For Whose Benefit
This Grandma thinks about today and being “young old.” As GG (great-grandmother) at almost age 93 lives alone and is self sufficient,...
Sep 20, 20164 min read
Why Real Books Are Best For Us and Our Grandchildren and How to Select Books With Our Grandchildren
We grandmas know that it is important to read to children, and it is an activity that both of us can enjoy together. Our grandchildren...
Sep 19, 20163 min read
“Young Old,” Wiser, Happier and More From Which Those Not As Fortunate in Years Can Learn
I never in a million years could imagine it could be. In younger years, I could not imagine reaching age 70. In younger years, I thought...
Sep 8, 20162 min read
When A Boomer Grandparent Becomes An Orphan
With tears in my own eyes, this Grandma just heard of the death, minutes ago, of a long (we never say old) dear friend’s mother. She was...
Sep 6, 20165 min read
The Texting Generation Versus the Telephone Generation, Both of Whom Are the Parents of Our Grandchildren, And Who Knows What the Future Communication Will Be
This Boomer Grandma has been contemplating lately, having lived almost 70 years, how technology and communication have changed and...
Sep 1, 20166 min read
Teeth and Dental Health Is In the News and the Best Good News is Less Dentist Drilling Is In All of Our Futures, Especially Grandchildren
One of this Grandma’s favorite gifts to buy the grandchildren is a new battery operated toothbrush. We adults know that we should...
Aug 7, 20166 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...
Jul 28, 20165 min read
The Right Way to Bribe Kids to Read” Is Wrong
One of this Grandma’s mantras is that each family is unique and there is no right way or one way to raise kids. The grandchildren will...
Jul 26, 20162 min read
Is G-Date, Grandparent Date, the Dating Service Misnamed
The Hebrew Nursing Home in Riverdale, New York, is in the news. The New York Times, July 12, 2016, reporting on it, in “Too Old For Sex:...
Jul 7, 20163 min read
Words We Use To Describe Ourselves and Others May Impact How Our Grandchildren Respect Those of Long
When I was in my 20’s, a slightly older friend rankled when this Grandma mentioned that I was getting together with “the girls.” She...
Jun 23, 20162 min read
Think Sooner Rather Than Later in Fulfilling Passions and Bucket Lists
This past Spring month or so has been a difficult one for deaths of those we know or of whom we know in their sixties, even fifties and...
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