This Grandma’s Review of Disney’s Andi Mack is Not What the Disney Channel Executives Want to Hear
This Grandma likes to be cool and in the know. When I read about a new Disney Channel series that was touted to be creative, curious and...
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Mar 24, 20175 min read
Consider Introducing Your Grandchildren To The World, Beginning with Paris
Our oldest grandson’s favorite city in the world is Paris. With all the news about Paris and concerns about safety, Grandpa and I wanted...
Mar 21, 20173 min read
I Wish Groovaroo Was Around When The Parents Of Our Grandchildren Were Babies
When this Grandma was a new mother, I loved to dance with my babies. . . in the privacy of my home. It enabled me to be silly and funny...
Mar 15, 20176 min read
Telling Grandchildren About the Beginning of Television Now That We Are Nearing Its End As We Know It
This past February 2017, NBC television celebrated 90 years of programming. That is GG’s (great grandparent’s) generation, but we...
Mar 7, 20175 min read
Best Ways of Taking Back Control from Children With Smartphones and Computers in This Electronic Age
This Grandma is amazed at the number of our school aged grandchildren with smart phones, some as young as 7. According to a study by...
Mar 3, 20179 min read
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Best Tips for 2017 and Beyond
We are Florida parents and now we are the grandparents in Florida, so we have lost count of how many visits to Disney’s Animal Kingdom we...
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 24, 20172 min read
Chad and Jake’s Personalized Bibs, Burp Cloths, and Blankets Return With An Even Greater Selection of Items
Chad and Jake is a Florida company run by a family who makes the best quality and most useful and long lasting personalized bibs, burp...
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...
Jan 9, 20175 min read
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...
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 26, 20164 min read
Disney Princesses Come With Controversy Before the Holidays 2016
Disney princesses are young children’s favorites. This holiday there is a new princess. The animated Disney movie, “Moana,” was number...
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,...
Dec 15, 20162 min read
If “PaPa” is Now the Favored Name for “Daddy” and ” MaMa” Is the favored Name for “Mommy” What Should We Boomer Grandparents Be Called
In the car, December 1, 2016, this Grandma heard a radio commentator say that the term “Dad” is out as it makes the father more distant...
Nov 29, 20164 min read
Home Remedies That Make Our Grandchildren’s Lives Easier – Part I The Experts As a Holiday Gif
This Grandma had never heard of Terry and Joe Graedon until I saw their column in the Sun Sentinel newspaper October 27, 2016. Here was...
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