Memorializing Family Rituals and Traditions in the New Year 2019
The last two years, this Grandma’s New Year’s posts have been heavy and emotionally taxing. See post, 2018 New Year’s Resolutions...
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Dec 20, 20183 min read
The Sunshine Symphony is The One Perpetually Award Winning Newborn, Baby, and Toddler Toy That Is A
Remember the scary clown phase where kids and adults alike were terrified? Every time my daughters and I look at The Sunshine Symphony by...
Dec 6, 20187 min read
Women’s Health Care Takes A Massive Downward Dive With Medicare and We Women Must Advocate for No Mo
This Grandma made an annual appointment for the gynecologist. I received a call from the office right before the appointment. They...
Nov 28, 20182 min read
Oppenheimer Toy Awards for 2018 Provide A Wealth of Award Winning Toys That Are Tested On Children f
This Grandma found the Oppenheimer Toy Awards years ago. The website, a few years ago, was redesigned and hard to navigate. Looking for...
Nov 22, 20183 min read
PRIMARY and MONICA AND ANDY New Organic Baby Clothes Are Winners For Our Precious Grandchildren and Now Just in Time for Holiday Shopping
Everything with the two newest baby grandchildren is about organic. Of course, organic clothing is the new rage and there are new...
Nov 7, 20186 min read
If There is a Question of It Being Safe to Be Jewish In New York, then What Does That Mean for Being
Since the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, there has been public discussion as to whether the shooting was really against being...
Nov 2, 20186 min read
We American Jews Must Now Not Only Be Vigilant As We Have Joined the Vulnerable Ranks of Our Worldwide
It has been happening to Jews for many thousands of years. It has touched our family and we Jews, collectively and of my family, can...
Nov 1, 20185 min read
The Lessons This Grandma learned from Watching Parents Walk With and Engage Their Babies, Toddlers,
Spending a month in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I was surprised to see so many strollers and so few tourists. This is clearly New York...
Oct 25, 20183 min read
Quality and Reasonably Priced Plastic American Made Toys Are A Hit To Buy And Put Away For Special Gifts and Holiday Presents
A long (we never say old) dear friend called for advice about toys for her grandson and the third child in a family. It is always a...
Oct 17, 20184 min read
We Boomers are Asking The Wrong Generation If They Want Our Possessions As We Downsize
We Boomers are downsizing, or so I hear in the news and media. Moreover, articles and advice columns about how our adult children do not...
Oct 13, 20185 min read
Who Knew Children Do Vomit More Than Adults and the Top Four Tips To Know About Children and Grandch
When this Grandma was an elementary school teacher, I always made a deal with the teacher next door. I could not stand vomit or blood,...
Oct 4, 20185 min read
Top Ten Baby Names For 2018 From Parents Magazine and the Power of Some Old People Names
This Grandma loves all of the top ten lists for baby names each year and Parents Magazine recently released theirs. I love reading the...
Sep 26, 20184 min read
Silver Sneakers and Boomers’ Best Medicare Free Fitness Benefit or Not
If you have not heard of Silver Sneakers, join the club. You will want to join the Silver Sneakers club, as I did, when I heard about...
Sep 18, 20184 min read
In This Reality Show World, Boomer Grandparents Have One Reprieve
The parents of our younger grandchildren watch “Big Brother.” We know. It seems to always be on when we visit. They tell us they like...
Sep 13, 20185 min read
Where Foreign Fake News Through On Line Russian Bots and Trolls Endangers Our Children and Grandchildren Regarding Vaccinations We Need To Educate, Intervene, and Quickly Spread the Truth
The fomented mistrust in our news media which has made settled science become controversial now is shown to detrimentally affect our most...
Sep 5, 20185 min read
The First Pregnancy and Baby Advice and Information Has Changed Beyond Recognition With Our Grandchildren’s Generation
When this Grandma’s children, now in their forties, were babies, cereal was the first food to introduce to the baby, and after a few...
Aug 29, 20184 min read
This Grandma Has Just Upped the Acceptable Marriage Age For Her Grandchildren
“Life is making choices and living with the consequences of the choices we make.” In Boomers’ parents’ age, that saying meant once you...
Aug 21, 20185 min read
We Grandparents Should Be Thankful for the Grandchildren We Have Looking at Three Important Articles and A New Book as to Why Everyone Is Having Less Children And How We Can Grandparents Can Change Th
The recent news has bombarded this Grandma about how everyone in America is having less children. I must be thankful and grateful that I...
Aug 15, 20186 min read
As A Child of Holocaust Survivors, I Am Worried That History Is Repeating Itself
4 February 2017, West Point Cadets tour the Permanent Exhibition. As a child of Holocaust survivors, I feel that my unique background and...
Jul 26, 20187 min read
Before You or Your Loved Ones Travel Outside the United States this Summer Or Anytime Take These Four STEPs First
Grandpa, our oldest grandson, and I were walking with our guide, Bertrand, down a main Paris thoroughfare toward the Rodin Museum when...
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