Favored Dogs Versus Favored Cats As Pets for Grandchildren When Both Require Commitment or Do They
The Westminster Kennel Club show in New York this year ended with the beagle winning Best in Show. This Grandma is not a dog lover but...
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Mar 11, 20155 min read
The Hottest Red Carpet Styles are Those Women age 60+ and 70+ and the Top Advice of the Top Two Sirens, Sophia Loren and Jane Fonda, are a Prescription for Boomer Grandmas
We Boomer grandmas have made it. The hottest red carpet styles this year are those women age 60+ and 70+. Of course, we do not look like...
Mar 9, 20152 min read
A Reverse Birthday Gift is a Win-Win to Downsize and Share Grandma’s Life
We get to the point in life when we Boomer Grandmas have so much “stuff.” It usually comes at the same time as when we have to consider...
Mar 5, 20153 min read
Red Yarn Passed from Generation to Generation is Great Riches
My mother, GG (great grandmother) died in 2005. Before she died, she gave me a ball of red yarn and told me it was now my duty as the...
Mar 3, 20153 min read
A Random Act of Kindness
A great community leader just died at age 96. She was a dancer, ran a dance studio in the north, retired to Florida and worked her entire...
Mar 1, 20153 min read
From Birth to Death, Music and Learning to Play an Instrument is Our Friend
This Grandma should have titled this post, “From Utero to Death, Music is Our Friend.” In the last decade or so, we see images of...
Feb 27, 20153 min read
So When Are Grandchildren Into Dragons and What Can We Grandmas Do About It
This Grandma is always looking for great visit presents. So introducing grandchildren to dragons can be through great books and plush...
Feb 21, 20155 min read
Parents of the Grandchildren Just Say No to SpongeBob SquarePants
This Grandma did not know. A grandchild wanted a SpongeBob plush toy. I was about to purchase it when the parent of the grandchild went...
Feb 16, 20153 min read
Protecting Our Granddaughters From the Ills of Sugary Drinks
This Grandma is one who never says no to grandchildren except in times of safety. Even times when discipline is needed, this Grandma...
Feb 14, 20153 min read
The Importance of teaching Grandchildren To Set Aside Time to Do Nothing on National Nothing Day and More Lasting Skill Building With Meditation
When this Grandma was a child in the safe times of growing up in the 1950’s, parents were apt to send you outside to play with the...
Feb 12, 20155 min read
Matisse and The Cut Outs and Grandchildren Projects
Grandpa and I went to the New York Museum of Modern Art, “Matisse, The Cut-Outs” Show. We learned all about his process and saw hundreds...
Feb 10, 20152 min read
We Have Good Reason to Read Aloud to Grandchildren of All Ages
In the New York Times, January 8, 2015, Motoko Richjan, in “Study Finds Reading to Children of All Ages Grooms Them to Read More on Their...
Feb 8, 20153 min read
Does Jane the Virgin’s Lead Actress Have an Important message for Parents and Grandparents to Pass Along That Is Not What the Show’s Title Suggests
Because of all the buzz that the new television show,”Jane the Virgin,” was not only hysterical but bound to win awards this year, this...
Feb 2, 20154 min read
Researchers Now Tell us Boomer Grandmas Have the Wisdom that Accompanies Long Years As A Reason to Smile
The holiday season is at an end. This Grandma can tell. Everyone used to smile, be kind and accommodating, and now it is back to rudeness...
Jan 24, 20153 min read
What I Wish My Grandchildren Could Understand Now Rather Than Suffer the Consequences of Having to
After having lived long, life looks so different. The intensity of youth is replaced with the calm of experience. All of those sayings we...
Jan 22, 20152 min read
Grandma Being the Nanny for the Grandchildren
This Grandma recently went to a reunion of long (we never say old) friends who are all now grandmas. One has seven month old twin...
Jan 20, 20157 min read
Grandma Trying to Understand and Prepare for the Ramifications of the Unintended Medical Consequences of Aging
This Grandma’s grandchildren heal almost in the blink of an eye. Young 20s and 30s ails took little longer to heal. So go the decades....
Jan 18, 20153 min read
Irresponsibility and Grand parenting Should not Go Together
In the Sun Sentinel, Amy Dickinson titled her column, ASK AMY, “Irresponsible Grandparents.” This, of course, caught my interest: Dear...
Jan 15, 20155 min read
This Grandma Feels A Need to Apologize to the Grandchildren for the World in Which We Now Live
I do not think I know how the world in which we live got to be what it is today. MY PRECIOUS GRANDCHILDREN, THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE,...
Jan 12, 20153 min read
Remembering to Be Grateful During the Holiday Season and Throughout the Year
Grandpa and this Grandma just returned from what seems to be another stop in the endless stream of holiday parties. At this party, a long...
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