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...
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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 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...
Jun 9, 20153 min read
Baby Names for 2014 Lead to Decades of Information and Advice From Grandma on Loving the Name Chose
This Grandma loves when the U.S. Social Security Administration annually announces the most popular baby names of the year. 2014 is no...
Jun 7, 20154 min read
Even Rocking A Baby Has A New Modern Bounce For Grandma To Learn
In this Boomer Grandma’s generation, the grandmother had the old American rocking chair seen in so many Norman Rockwell paintings. I, as...
Jun 5, 20154 min read
Grandma Gives Positive Solutions to Mother’s Day Disappointment and Family Discord
Carolyn Hax, on May 24, 2015 in the Miami Herald, wrote concerning a letter received about Mother’s Day disappointment. Family fallout...
Jun 1, 20153 min read
Being a Boomer Grandma is Like a Triple Decker Sandwich
In the Miami Herald, March 20, 2015, Joe Cardona wrote an editorial about “A Generation between the Young and the Old,” bemoaning his...
May 14, 20155 min read
Grandma’s Changing Role and Relationship With Grandchildren As They and We Live Longer
This Grandma always says we never get older, we live longer. That is different with our grandchildren. They cannot seem to want to wait...
Apr 8, 20152 min read
Making Your House the Gathering Place For Family and Their Friends
The holidays are here and soon we are inundated with our children and grandchildren. Talking with a long (we never say old) friend, we...
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...
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...
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...
Oct 20, 20143 min read
Grandma Teaching Tolerance and Acceptance With A Smile
Recently, I was relating to a friend a wonderful and memorable day I had spent with my then near three year old grandson intending to...
Oct 16, 20145 min read
This Grandma Now Thinks We can Build Resilience in Our Grandchildren
This Grandmother is a child of Holocaust survivors. As adolescents and young adults, my parents survived horrors that are unbelievable...
Oct 5, 20143 min read
What Joan Rivers Has Taught Us About Aging
It is always sad when we lose someone personally known to us, and Joan Rivers always made us feel as though she was personally known to...
Sep 26, 20142 min read
Balancing Between Young and “Young Old”
Opening up the New York Times on line September 1, 2014, I scrolled down and “Most Emailed” hit me. Number two in most emailed was an...
Sep 17, 20143 min read
Braiding Granddaughter’s Hair and Braiding Memories
Our eight year old granddaughter is tough. She is not a girly girl. Her favorite color is blue. She has never had a doll nor is she...
Sep 7, 20144 min read
Grandma’s Reflection on the Importance of Participating in Life Passage Events, even the Caretaking before the Death of a Parent
“On siblings who don’t help with an elderly parent’s care,” was the title of advice given by a reader of Carolyn Hax’s column while she...
Sep 5, 20145 min read
When Grandma Does Not Exercise Good Judgment While Watching Grandchildren Look for the Win-Win Rather than Consequences
This Grandma wonders why people are surprised when someone does not exercise good judgment when they become a grandparent. Just because...
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