The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpec
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every...
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Sep 2, 20208 min read
PART TWO of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote or Part Time Learning and Any Time
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Aug 26, 20207 min read
PART ONE of Learning Tips to Pass Along and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote On Lin
At this time of remote or part time learning, we are all concerned about how much our grandchildren are going to retain. I hope the two...
Aug 19, 202010 min read
A New Scientific Study Shows How We Grandparents Cause Ill Will Between Us and the Parents of Our Gr
“Half of Parents Report Butting Heads with Child’s Grandparent Over Parenting,” is a new study from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital...
Aug 12, 20209 min read
Seven Great On Line Shopping Tips During COVID-19 or Anytime to Get the Best at the Best Price
In this time of COVID-19, spending more time in our homes, we are not only cleaning closets and reorganizing, we are looking to change or...
Aug 5, 20205 min read
Marvelous, Outrageous, Extraordinary, and Maybe Some Useful Face Masks In the Mix to Make or Choose From for the Present and Future
Although we are loathe to consider it, it seems that face masks are going to be a means of remaining safe from the coronavirus, COVID-19,...
Jun 17, 202010 min read
The Six Best Tips for Car Travel in the Time of Coronavirus, Covid-19
With the corona virus pandemic, we do not want to leave the house, much less travel any distance. Yes, staying home is getting old. But,...
Jun 10, 20205 min read
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about...
Jun 3, 20203 min read
Father’s Day 2020 is a Father’s Day Like No Other and Consider Gifts Like No Other Year
We are in the midst of once in a century and half century traumatic events. There are protests in the street after the murder of George...
Apr 22, 20204 min read
A 2020 Mother’s Day that Means Thinking Differently About A Gift and Five of the Best Gift Options F
Never before have we had to be apart “social distancing” from our loved ones under the circumstances of a world-wide pandemic. Many of...
Apr 15, 20205 min read
Best 2020 Baby, Toddler, and Young Grandchild Gifts for Quarantined Parents and Parents-to-be
Researching for this blog post, this Grandma came across the most interesting brand new potty. Yes, with two grandsons now over age two,...
Feb 19, 20204 min read
Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s C
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called...
Feb 5, 20203 min read
Introducing Salad to Grandchildren Putting Fruits and Vegetables On A Pedestal First and Other Art Installation Projects
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the...
Dec 25, 20195 min read
The Three Best Tips on How to Introduce Our Grandchildren to Sesame Streets’ Breakthroughs, As Relevant Today As They Were Fifty Years Ago
Sesame Street is 50 years old! For us Boomer grandparents, that means that our children were the first to experience Sesame Street. The...
Dec 18, 20194 min read
New York Magazine’s Top Rated Family Board Games on Amazon Make Winners For This Holiday Season and
When the holidays are coming, this Grandma is looking for alternatives to electronics for the grandchildren that they will be interested...
Dec 4, 20194 min read
Missing Thanksgiving Magic – Cookie Bars — and Significant Family Presence
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our...
Nov 27, 20193 min read
Matching Books and Organic Sleepwear For Sizes Two to Ten Make the Best Holiday Gift for 2019
There are certain websites that I have signed up with, usually because they relate to something dealing with grandchildren. Hatley is...
Nov 20, 20194 min read
If You Have A Toddler Grandchild, Baby Shark Has Already Invaded Your Brain, and Will Add To Your Ho
On our last visit to our youngest grandchild, a toddler, his eight year old brother was humming a tune we grandparents were not familiar...
Oct 30, 20196 min read
Grandma’s Top Five Cleanliness in Public Tips For Grandchildren
When our eldest was being toilet trained, she fixated on only using the home toilet. We had to return home for her to go or, the good...
Oct 16, 20197 min read
Five Best Tips To Maximize and Personalize Your Group Tour or Travel to Anywhere in the World
PopPop and I consider ourselves world travelers. After all, we have conquered all the wonders of the world on every world list, except...
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