This Grandma Wishes the Technology to Track Children on A Cell Phone was Available When Her Children
On the Today Show, November 20, 2015, the discussion was whether parents should track their children on a cell phone. Savannah Guthrie...
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Dec 3, 20155 min read
Think Puzzles For Under Twenty Dollar Holiday Presents For Grandchildren of All Ages And From Grandchildren For Us Boomer Grandmas
This Grandma always knew puzzles are good for our grand children’s brains, but not exactly why, so I went on line, and found the...
Dec 1, 20153 min read
InstaMom, the New Stage Mother, and What This Means in Our New Society and For Our Grandchildren
Reading a New York Times article, November 14, 2015, about mothers hiring professional photographers and setting their children up with...
Nov 29, 20152 min read
Documenting Baby’s Growth Month By Month During the First Year With Onesies, Belly Stickers and Huge Stuffed Animals Makes For Wonderful Baby Gifts From Grandma For Holidays or As a Wonderful Baby Sho
A dear long (we never say old) grandma friend sends me a picture of her youngest granddaughter each month. The adorable baby girl is...
Nov 23, 20155 min read
Pew Study on the New Twenty First Century Family Shows Who Does the Heavy Lifting in the Family Has Not Changed Much and They Need Our Help More Than Ever
Two articles a week apart in the New York Times about a Pew Study on the new twenty first century family give us two views by the same...
Nov 21, 20153 min read
We Boomer Grandmas Know Time Flies As We Get Longer, Never Older, and Here is Why and What We Can Do About Slowing Time Down
The Washington Post answered the question for us why time flies, in the article. “Why half of the life you experience is over by age 7,”...
Nov 18, 20156 min read
The Stroll from Boomer Grandma’s Era and the Electric Slide and Macarena from the Era of Their Parents Has Become the Whip for Our Grandchildren
Doing Face Time with grandchildren is the next best thing to being with them in person. It allows us to share their lives, see them when...
Nov 12, 20154 min read
Easiest and Best Thanksgiving Boomer Grandma Tips and Easiest and Best Thanksgiving Stuffing To Make With Grandchildren
This Grandma makes reservations. Holidays are an exception, although the best tip for grandmas at holiday time is to turn over the...
Nov 10, 20159 min read
The Pressure to Breast Feed and New Breast Feeding Studies Give Mixed Messages Which We Grandmas Can Clarify For the Parents of our Grandchildren
When this Grandma was pregnant over four decades ago, it seems like the Middle Ages with regard to information about pregnancy, delivery,...
Nov 8, 20154 min read
Black is the New Black For Which This Grandma will be Remembered With A Forever Message To Add
Each of us Boomer Grandmas were raised in the 1950’s and 1960’s learning that either winter colors (red, black, white, navy) would look...
Nov 6, 20156 min read
American History Comes Alive For Us and Our Preteen and Older Grandchildren So Run, Do Not Walk, To See the Play of the Century, Hamilton
This Grandma is very lucky that her best friend from high school lives in Manhattan. She knows our love of theater and lets us in on the...
Oct 27, 20158 min read
Mother-in Law Day is for Mother in law to be Deserving of the Honor of Having a Day Named After Her
Mother-in-Law Day is October 25 this year, celebrated the fourth Sunday in October since 2002. If you read about this day, one would...
Oct 25, 20155 min read
Adults Making Millions Playing With Toys on YouTube Videos And Why Did We Not Think of This Silliness
Twenty somethings are doing it, according to the Today Show October 16, 2015. Even more mature adults are doing it. The goofy videos our...
Oct 21, 20152 min read
Skinny Oreos Add to the Oreo Boom but the Best for Grandchildren and Their Parents are Chocolate Covered Oreos We Make At Home Or Send Off Beautifully Wrapped For the Holidays
A skinny version of Oreos debuts in the U.S. next week, its maker says. Four Oreo Thins contain 140 calories, compared with 160 calories...
Oct 20, 20154 min read
Grandma as the Storyteller and the Importance of Rituals and Traditions for Our Grandchildren
This Grandma just had the privilege of visiting Canyon Ranch in Tucson. On the way to their Health and Healing Center, I came upon a...
Oct 18, 20156 min read
American Academy of Pediatrics Comes Into the Twenty First Century Regarding Electronics and Children Just in Time to Stop Parental Guilt Over Parents’ Reality
This Grandma never understood the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations that children, ages two and under, have absolutely...
Oct 9, 20153 min read
The Five Best Tips from Grandma This 2015 Halloween Season
Before I began this post, this Grandma actually put the word “Halloween” into the search on this website. There are eight previous posts...
Sep 29, 20152 min read
Text4Baby is the New Technology For Parents and Grandparents
When this Grandma was a new mother, I had little information at my fingertips. Dr. Spock was it. Yes, we too felt that our parents were...
Sep 27, 20152 min read
A New Marvel Brings A New Reason to Bring Grandchildren to New York City To Experience Being A Fish
We grandmas know that New York City is the number one city to bring grandchildren. This Grandma has written posts previously of the...
Sep 25, 20152 min read
Lego Company Already the Most Powerful Brand and May be the world’s Biggest Toy Company With Help From Boomer Grandmas
Lego Company is all over the news. This Grandma watches for all stories about legos, as this is a favorite of grandchildren. So is...
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