The Five Best Website Resources for Finding the Best Children’s Books For Our Grandchildren of All Ages
From a new baby registry to holiday presents to visit presents to school required reading at all ages, books connect us with our...
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Dec 13, 20237 min read
Best Seven Chanukah and Christmas Holiday Gift Ideas For Grandparents and the Parents of Your Grandchildren That You Might Not Have Considered, Are Priceless, Interesting, Mostly Inexpensive, and Unus
It is always hard to get grandparents holiday gifts. All we grandparents want is time with grandchildren. In that vein, here are ideas...
Nov 28, 20233 min read
Christmas and Chanukah, Two of the Best Holiday Gift Resources for the Newest and Best Top Rated Toy
This Grandma found the Oppenheimer Toy Awards years ago. It should be the first place to look for award winning toys and games for 2023...
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...
Mar 26, 20231 min read
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...
Dec 18, 20226 min read
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...
Dec 11, 20224 min read
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...
May 29, 20223 min read
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...
Apr 22, 20223 min read
The Best New Source For Artistic, Colorful, Modern Customized and Personalized Gifts for Every Occasion and Purpose is Kicks By Sammy
This Grandma immediately goes to one of three sources for personalized gifts, especially new baby gifts, Chad and Jake, Pottery Barn...
Dec 18, 20215 min read
The Best Acknowledgments From Grandchildren When Grandparents Give Them Gifts and 2021 Ideas For Charitable Giving By Grandchildren
Eight years ago, January 27, 2013, I wrote a blog post about thank you notes from grandchildren which was then a topic on the Today Show...
Dec 18, 20194 min read
New York Magazine’s Top Rated Family Board Games on Amazon Make Winners For This Holiday Season and
When the holidays are coming, this Grandma is looking for alternatives to electronics for the grandchildren that they will be interested...
Nov 27, 20193 min read
Matching Books and Organic Sleepwear For Sizes Two to Ten Make the Best Holiday Gift for 2019
There are certain websites that I have signed up with, usually because they relate to something dealing with grandchildren. Hatley is...
May 23, 20185 min read
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...
Dec 26, 20173 min read
Have Fidget Spinners Quickly Gone the Way of Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks And Should They?
If you have a grandchild old enough to say the word, he or she has a fidget spinner in their hand. My son-in-law credits me with being...
Nov 25, 20173 min read
Are Toys and Board Games Dead and Should We Grandparents Keep Them Alive This Holiday Season
Each year it seems that toys and games make up less and less of grandchildren’s birthday and holiday lists and electronics and apps make...
Oct 10, 20172 min read
Archives Must Reads For New Grandmas. 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...
Nov 19, 20163 min read
Rubik’s Cube Still Going Strong at Near Half a Century And Gift Ideas from Baby and Up For Great 2016 Holiday Presents
At our last visit with our younger grandchildren, this Grandma was surprised to see our nine year old grandson playing with a Rubik’s...
Sep 28, 20164 min read
Buy A Boy Doll for your Grandson. . . and Your Granddaughter and Mix It Up More
When our eldest grandson was a toddler, this Grandma immediately bought him a boy doll and a stroller, in blue of course. It was hard to...
Apr 2, 20164 min read
Grandmas Supporting Diversity For Preschool Toys and New Thomas the Train Products
Grandmas Supporting Diversity For Preschool Toys and New Thomas the Train Products. T oy companies seem to get criticized when there is...
Mar 3, 20164 min read
Etch A Sketch and Doodle Art is Part of Our Past But Is It Also Part of Our Grandchildren’s Future
Etch a Sketch was created by a French inventor in 1955, according to a business “Briefing” in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, February...
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