Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a giant among us and her loss has been felt nationwide. The following two quotes I received from friends and relatives upon the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman Justice and first Jewish woman justice, touched me the most. “A Jewish teaching says […]
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and This Florida Judge’s Immigrant Life Following Her A Decade Later. Parallels Demonstrate Six Keys To Success For Grandchildren and How To Honor Her Legacy
October 21, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Finding COVID-19 Testing For Adults By Mail is Easy But How Can Parents Find COVID-19 Testing by Mail for Children, Locations That Test Children for COVID-19, Prepare Children for the Test, and Help Children Cope With the COVID-19 Test
September 17, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Travel is scary now enough for adults. I have several friends who have flown and send me pictures of themselves on the airplane. It was anxiety ridden, according to them. They were as cautious as they could be, social distancing at the airports, totally covered from head to toe, with disinfectants at their fingertips. They […]
The Best Idea For Maintaining Close Contact With Grandchildren During Covid-19 Comes From An Unexpected Source
September 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment
PopPop, and I, as long distance grandparents, made it our business to visit our grandchildren often when they were younger, about every four to six weeks, until they at least started preschool. We felt that the babies and toddlers needed the frequent contact to develop a close bond, which we hoped would last forever. With […]
PART TWO of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With Your Grandchildren During Remote or Part Time Learning and Any Time
September 2, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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 blog posts on learning theory that I have found helpful hopefully helps us grandparents help our precious grandchildren. “PART ONE of Learning Tips to Pass On and Incorporate With […]
The Best and Worst About Our Grandchildren Safely Going To School This Coming School Year While the Pandemic, COVID-19, Is Still Among Us
July 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma interviewed the three oldest grandchildren to preserve their memories about what life is like during the pandemic. The questions included was the worst thing about their isolation during the lockdown due to the pandemic. See post, “What Will Our Grandchildren Remember About Living Through The Coronavirus Pandemic COVID-19 and How To Memorialize their […]
A Humorous and Profound View on What We Have Learned from Covid-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
July 1, 2020 By Leave a Comment
A friend who is an outstanding writer shared an article she wrote for her local community newsletter and gave me permission to share it with you. We all need a laugh at this time and I think the laughs you get will be more than you expected. I thank Nancy Schaal, the author, for sharing […]
The Six Best Tips for Car Travel in the Time of Coronavirus, Covid-19
June 17, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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, travel is now anxiety ridden and just plain scary. Life in the time of Covid-19 means weighing risk tolerance and just how much risk one is willing to take, especially […]
Grandma’s List of Five Best and Five Worst Toddler Toys and Gifts
June 10, 2020 By Leave a Comment
After six grandchildren and many toddler gifts, this Grandma has listened to her daughters and daughter-in-law rave and complain about gifts and toys. Of course, when we give a toddler gift, we want the toddler to be happy, if not overjoyed. Here are some do’s and dont’s from this experienced Grandma. As much as I […]
Father’s Day 2020 is a Father’s Day Like No Other and Consider Gifts Like No Other Year
June 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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 Floyd in Minneapolis. Our country continues to exhibit institutionalized racism, another plague which should be immediately addressed. We are in the sixth month of dealing with a Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Grandparents May Be the Answer To The War Against Vaccines
May 27, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Beginning around 2013, I read that the Russians first tried a social media campaign against vaccination in the United States as a test to see if they could be successful using that medium to turn Americans against vaccinating our children. See, “Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate,” American Journal […]
For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them And More No Bake Ideas
May 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Pandemic Pounds. That is what I call the extra weight I am carrying around due to a sweet tooth and being home all the time to overdo. Yes, we add bakery items to our Instacart Publix shopping list. As an aside, we may never go into a supermarket again as we are getting used to […]
A Child of Holocaust Survivors View of Surviving the Coronavirus, Covid-19
May 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment
For the very first time in over seven decades, I decided that I would participate in an on line video group of second generation Holocaust survivors led by an expert who is a second generation herself, who I had previously heard speak, in a discussion, “Intergenerational Transmission of Hope: The Legacy of Trauma in the […]
The Truth About Boomers Filling Each Day During the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Why It is Important to America’s Economy To Pay Attention to Us
May 6, 2020 By Leave a Comment
It is May 2020, and we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19. We Boomers have been self isolating or quarantining since the beginning of March. We Boomers, who are grandparents, miss visiting our grandchildren and activities and outings with friends, travel, and so many activities that had consumed our lives before the […]
Passing Along Something Beautiful and Thought Provoking During the Coronavirus Pandemic
April 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment
So many jokes and cartoons and videos come to me during this coronavirus period. They bring comic relief to this time of the coronavirus pandemic where it is hard to find comedy. However, the connections to friends and family the texts and emails bring are so welcome. I do not care how silly or ridiculous […]
A 2020 Mother’s Day that Means Thinking Differently About A Gift and Five of the Best Gift Options For Mother or Grandmother or Great Grandmother
April 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Never before have we had to be apart “social distancing” from our loved ones under the circumstances of a world-wide pandemic. Many of us, like this Grandma, typically tried to have personal contact with our children and grandchildren for Mother’s Day, even traveling long distances to be together. Now, we must savor FaceTime, video texts, […]
Best 2020 Baby, Toddler, and Young Grandchild Gifts for Quarantined Parents and Parents-to-be
April 15, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Researching for this blog post, this Grandma came across the most interesting brand new potty. Yes, with two grandsons now over age two, this caught my eye. I wish it had existed when I was toilet training our children when they were young. I found toilet training to be one of the worst parenting chores, […]
What Will Our Grandchildren Remember About Living Through The Coronavirus Pandemic COVID-19 and How To Memorialize their Memories With Them and For Them
April 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment
During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, my dear friends and I reminisce about our childhoods and early adulthoods and the significant events that have been seared into our memories. Most seem to put President John F. Kennedy’s assassination among the top memories. We can remember where we were when we got the news. We […]
From A Child of Holocaust Survivors Who Never Knew Grandparents: In 2020, We May Have to Picture Our World Without Grandparents
March 25, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Until this date, March 24, 2020, the coronavirus outbreak, dangerous to us Boomers, has meant PopPop and I had to self quarantine, and we have already done so for over three weeks. We still have FaceTime and innovative ways to “visit” with our grandchildren. Dear grandparent friends whose grandchildren are local are taking to parking […]
Dear Grandchildren, The Year 2020 is Cancelled
March 18, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma just got off the telephone with our oldest grandson, age 16, a junior in high school. It is March 16, 2020 at the end of the workday. He is on spring break. As I had done, he also just listened to the President institute greater restrictions on travel and a maximum gatherings of […]
Blue Colors Are So Different To Learn and Paint with Grandchildren and A Special Blue is Pantone’s Color of the Year 2020
February 19, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Every year this Grandma loves learning about the Pantone choice of “Color of the Year.” This year, Pantone’s newly created blue, called “Classic Blue” is especially interesting. Our youngest grandson, almost two, is learning many words for things, including colors. It seems that everything is the color “blue” to him. He holds up a yellow […]
