Gifts for Grandchildren

May 12, 20234 min read

You and Those You Love Playing Games With Will Be “Transformed” by Catan, an Award Winning Board Game Created By Klaus Teuber and Played Around the World

Because it mentioned our family’s beloved board game, Catan, in the title, I immediately went to an article in the New York Times, April...

Archives Must Reads For New Grandparents. Part II What To Buy, From Equipment to Toys and Gifts

Mar 26, 20231 min read

GRANDMA ON LIFE

Archives Must Reads For New Grandparents. Part II What To Buy, From Equipment to Toys and Gifts

As this Grandma said in Part I, a dear long friend, who is becoming a grandma for the first time, asked me to give her my must reads for...

Holiday Gifts For Grandparents That Are Priceless, Interesting, and Unusual

Dec 18, 20226 min read

TOYS AND GIFTS

Holiday Gifts For Grandparents That Are Priceless, Interesting, and Unusual

It is always hard to get grandparents holiday gifts. All we grandparents want is time with grandchildren. In that vein, now that COVID...

For Holiday Gifts 2022, Select the Best Award Winning Toys For Grandchildren and the Coolest Tech Gadgets for All Ages Recommended by my Eleven Year Old Grandson

Dec 11, 20224 min read

TOYS AND GIFTS

For Holiday Gifts 2022, Select the Best Award Winning Toys For Grandchildren and the Coolest Tech Gadgets for All Ages Recommended by my Eleven Year Old Grandson

Even our youngest four year old grandchildren crave electronics. We can give what grandchildren crave by asking them what they want in...

Best Gifts for Graduations From Preschool to Graduate School 2022

May 29, 20223 min read

GIFTS AND HOLIDAYS

Best Gifts for Graduations From Preschool to Graduate School 2022

PopPop and I have a four year grandchild who has a “moving up” ceremony this week, moving up from the three’s to pre kindergarten. He is...

The Best 2021 Holiday Presents for Our Preteen, Teenage, and College Aged Grandchildren and What They Want As Presents for The Holidays 2021

Dec 12, 20215 min read

GIFTS AND HOLIDAYS

The Best 2021 Holiday Presents for Our Preteen, Teenage, and College Aged Grandchildren and What They Want As Presents for The Holidays 2021

In 2014, I wrote a post, “What Our Grandchildren Want as Presents. Then I did not have college aged grandchildren or teenaged...

Four 2021 Best Inexpensive Gadgets For Feeding Toddlers and Preschoolers That Are Perfect Baby Shower, First Birthday, and Visit Gifts That Parents Will Appreciate

May 13, 20213 min read

BOOMER

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...

Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst New Baby Gifts

Jan 16, 20215 min read

TOYS AND GIFTS

Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst New Baby Gifts

After six grandchildren and many baby gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters rave and complain about baby gifts. Of course,...

Taking A Virtual Zoom Baby Shower to the Next Level With the Best Four Tips

Sep 23, 20204 min read

GRANDMA TIPS

Taking A Virtual Zoom Baby Shower to the Next Level With the Best Four Tips

Yesterday, I participated in a Zoom baby shower given by one of my long (we never say old) dear friends for her son and daughter-in-law. ...

Best 2020 Baby, Toddler, and Young Grandchild Gifts for Quarantined Parents and Parents-to-be

Apr 15, 20205 min read

GRANDMA ON LIFE

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,...

How To Select the Best Award Winning Toys For All Ages For Holidays 2019

Dec 11, 20194 min read

Gifts for Grandchildren

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...

Grandma’s Best Four Tips to Get Gifts and Candy to Grandchildren at Sleep Away Camps That Do Not All

Jul 3, 20194 min read

Gifts for Grandchildren

Grandma’s Best Four Tips to Get Gifts and Candy to Grandchildren at Sleep Away Camps That Do Not All

Gift packages have been banned at most sleep away camps. For crazy grandmothers, all that did was make us try to find ways to circumvent...

Award Winning Outdoor Toys For 2018 Spring and Summer Fun

May 23, 20185 min read

TOYS AND GIFTS

Award Winning Outdoor Toys For 2018 Spring and Summer Fun

Each year the Oppenheimer Toy Awards on Toy Portfolio give us guidance as to our toy purchases. Each year, it seems, it is harder to...

The Best New Baby Gear Recommendations From Parents Who Just Had Their Third Baby in less Than Five Years

Oct 3, 20175 min read

GRANDMA TIPS

The Best New Baby Gear Recommendations From Parents Who Just Had Their Third Baby in less Than Five Years

Sometimes the best advice grandma can give on research as to what gear is needed for a new baby is to recommend that the parents-to-be...

Snapchat Taking Over Our Grandchildren’s World And Should We Be Worried About It Or Join By Buying Snap Spectacles for A Holiday Gift

Dec 29, 20164 min read

GRANDMA ON LIFE

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 19, 20165 min read

Toddler

The Best Headphones to Protect Hearing As A Gift For Toddler to Preteen Grandchildren Rather than Be

Headphones are a great gift item for grandchildren at any time of the year. We grandparents know how it is sitting in a car with...