Making A Bed Is A Key To Success To Encourage in Grandchildren
The Today Show had a segment and story on Today.com: “Will making your bed every morning change your life?” By Randee Dawn, August 27,...
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Sep 18, 20154 min read
AARP Which Accepts Us As Members At Age 50 Warns Us of Our Body Taking Over With Yuck Factors Assigned
This Grandma still wonders how AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) still thinks we want to be members at age 50. When around...
Sep 16, 20152 min read
Forbes Top 25 Innovative Consumer Products for 2015 Has Some Winners For This Grandma
Forbes Magazine had a tweet August 14, 2015, about the 2015 top 25 innovative consumer products. This Grandma was curious. Included in...
Sep 14, 20156 min read
Eight Tips of What to Do or Not Do When You Want to be a Grandma but the Future Parents to be Are Not Cooperating
This Grandma writes often about our generation not being our parents’ generation. I speak of it about the way we think, the way we act,...
Sep 10, 20152 min read
After Oppenheimer Toy Award Winners Determined, The Value of Zulily and This Grandma Finding Each Other Confirmed by the Skimm
This Grandma LOVES www.toyportfolio.com. The Oppenheimer Toy awards listed on t he website provide mountains of ideas to buy gifts for...
Sep 8, 20152 min read
Grandparents’ Day Celebrated By A Grandma Giving to Children and Grandchildren and Creating a Legacy
Since 1978, Grandparents’ Day has been a holiday in the U.S., celebrated the first Sunday after Labor Day. In 2015, Grandparents’ Day is...
Sep 6, 20155 min read
Grandma’s Top three Tips to Help the Marriage of the Parents of the Grandchildren Avoid the Doldrums
In this Grandma’s era of a mid term marriage in the doldrums, it was called the “seven year itch.” Now, it seems it is called the “ten...
Sep 2, 20152 min read
The Skim” Connects Us to the Parents of Our Grandchildren
The news media is heralding a new era. We Boomers are of the newspaper generation. I still like my morning newspaper – or I should say,...
Aug 30, 20153 min read
“Be Careful What You Wish For” Hits this Boomer Grandma
Standing in a crowded, busy Pottery Barn waiting for the sales person to get items from the warehouse, the grandchildren were bored. One...
Aug 21, 20152 min read
Finding the Best Pillow is Like Finding a Swim Suit that Fits and Here It Is
This article appeared in New York Magazine February 23, 2015, “A Spine-Friendly Pillow for Deep Sleep,” by Emma Whitford. It caught my...
Aug 19, 20156 min read
Must We “Target” Product Suggestions Based on Gender Because of Tweets
The Sun Sentinel, August 11, 2015, had an article, “Target Stores Tackle Gender Divide Issue,” by Jessica Contrara, which added the “why”...
Aug 17, 20152 min read
Top Three Tips for Picking the Best Preschool and Toddler Nap Mats and Covers
My daughters always ask this Grandma to do the research for them. This time it was preparation for preschool, and on the list of things...
Aug 15, 20154 min read
How Young is Young Enough to Be President of the United States
News Flash on July 30, 2015 from CNN.com: “Health issues resulting from a blood clot in 2012 are resolved and Hillary Clinton is...
Aug 13, 20154 min read
Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Retire to Florida From A Long Time Boomer Grandma of South Florida
Those of us Boomers in Florida knew it was bound to happen after this past long hard winter. After all, the snow in Boston Harbor did not...
Aug 11, 20153 min read
Best Five Tips on How Grandma Can Be the Star For Parents and Grandchildren With Back to School Expenses
Florida has a special time every August where there is no sales tax for Back to School expenses, an exemption for clothing of $100 or...
Aug 9, 20153 min read
National Ice Cream Month is Celebrated in Sunny Florida Year Round
July is National Ice Cream Month. This Grandma can understand that it would fall in the summer in the U.S. After all, I have always...
Aug 7, 20152 min read
And So We Boomers Disappear at the End of This Century…
The article in the Washington Post June 26, 2015 caught my eye, “Social Issues: Census update shows more diverse society as baby-boom...
Aug 5, 20155 min read
Great Wolf Lodge Adventures With Grandparents: Comparing Older Lodges in Poconos, Pennsylvania, and
When our eight and nine year old grandchildren were given a choice of a weekend vacation with Grandma and Grandpa, each, separately, said...
Aug 3, 20155 min read
Appreciating What You Have May Include Making Lemonade Out of Lemons Handed To You By the Parents
Dear Abby in the Miami Herald July 26, 2015 had a lament from an involved and active grandma in “DEAR ABBY: Grandma’s pictures don’t make...
Jul 30, 20152 min read
We do Not Have to Wait Until National Chocolate Pudding Day to Enjoy Chocolate Pudding Dump Cake With Grandchildren
It seems that every day is another national holiday and we don’t know the origin of National Chocolate Pudding Day, but who cares....
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