This Grandma loves the exercise and movement song to sing with grandchildren from toddlers to older than you would expect: Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, Knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, Knees and toes. Eyes and ears and mouth, and nose, Head, shoulders, knees, and toes, Knees and toes. Yes, we grandparents progressively […]
The Children’s Song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. . . “ Brings us To Three Important Tips For Boomer Grandparents’ “Eyes, Ears, Mouth, And Nose.”
December 24, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Little Known Natural Helpful Tips For Living With Palpitations, Dizziness, and Low Blood Pressure
October 17, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma loves Western medicine and Eastern medicine alternatives. Although I hate needles, I have found acupuncture helpful at times. The key is the expertise of the acupuncturist and honesty about whether or not acupuncture will help for the ailment. Best of all, I love natural methods that work for dealing with medical issues. I […]
Three Preschooler Studies That Will Make Parents of Our Grandchildren Lives Better
September 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma has collected Science Daily reported Baby Studies for over a decade and recently wrote a post on six of the best that include easy to incorporate tips during interactions with your baby and toddler grandchildren and to pass along to their parents. I also collect Science Daily reported studies on preschoolers. There are […]
The Best Reason Our Grand babies Need More Sleep Than We Do: Chart of Sleep We Need By Age Group
June 24, 2021 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma happened upon a great article on line, “How much sleep you need, depending on your age,” by Dana McMakin, May 14, 2021, MIC. The best part of the article was a chart, “Recommended amount of Sleep, By Age Group,” Of Course, I have comments under each age group, as I have lived through […]
Marvelous, Outrageous, Extraordinary, and Maybe Some Useful Face Masks In the Mix to Make or Choose From for the Present and Future
August 5, 2020 By Leave a Comment
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, for a considerable time to come. This Grandma has a saying that when we consider ourselves too fat to buy clothes, we buy shoes. With everyone home more often than […]
Let Us Not Forget We are Living Through History In the Making and The Generations That Come After Will Never Forget Us
July 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment
We are living through history in the making and the generations that come after will never forget us. We are not only passively living through the time of COVID-19, each of us is affecting the trajectory of this coronavirus. During this self-induced media overload, I learned that our seasonal flu, for which we get a […]
It Is Wonderful It Is Not Only Boomers Who Feel Like We Are Losing It During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Three Top Tips for Counteracting The Fog We Are Feeling
July 15, 2020 By Leave a Comment
My friends and I who are Boomers keep sharing that we cannot remember what day it is and what we did yesterday, much less last week or last month. We share going to another room for a reason and then forgetting why we are there. We share that we cannot remember whether it is Sunday […]
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 […]
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 […]
Twelve Tips on How We Grandparents Can Help the Parents of Our Grandchildren Survive Home 24-7 With Their Children
April 1, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma tells the parents of our grandchildren that if they lament that a grandchild is behind in a skill or learning that the grandchild will learn it before they walk down the aisle at his or her wedding. This is a time to repeat this to the parents of our grandchildren. This is an […]
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 […]
Seven Positives From Coronavirus Virus Outbreak For Boomers and Those The CDC Has Told to Stay Home
March 11, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Since the Coronovirus has reached our shores, it is we Boomers who have most negatives in relation to the outbreak. We are over the age of 60. I hate to think that is where “elderly” or “senior citizen” is thought to begin, but as a Boomer we COULD be considered in that category, even though […]
IMPORTANT FLU AND CORONAVIRUS PREPARATION AND INFORMATION TO PASS ALONG: Boomers at Great Risk
March 4, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Hopefully, one day we Boomers will look at this time of lack of information, lack of testing available, and lack of consistent knowledge and breathe a sigh of relief that it passed. However, right now we are like we were when we were expectant parents in the 1970’s – with little information and praying for […]
The Wuhan Coronavirus has Arrived in the United States: LINKS FOR UPDATES With What We Grandparents and Our Grandchildren Can Expect or Do About It and What Does Climate Change Have To Do With Super Viruses
February 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Being Boomers, we grandparents have many generations to worry about with the flu and viruses. PopPop’s mother is 96 years old. Our siblings are hitting age 70. Our children are in their 40’s. Our grandchildren range from sixteen to two years old. We refuse to admit that when the news media mentions “at risk” ages […]
Grandma’s Top Five Cleanliness in Public Tips For Grandchildren
October 30, 2019 By Leave a Comment
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 news and bad news was that she would hold it until we got home. Needless to say, this limited our range of movement. I do not know why […]
Convincing Adults to Get the HPV Vaccine For Themselves Is a Hard Sell When Maybe It Should Not Be In Certain Circumstances
September 18, 2019 By Leave a Comment
According to the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection, and nearly 80 million people—about one in four—are currently infected in the United States. About 14 million people, including teens, become infected with HPV each year. The HPV vaccine is an important development […]
Four of the Best Supplements and Medications for Boomers and Others to Discuss With Their Doctors To See If Appropriate to Your Health and For Health in and For Longevity
July 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment
After all of the television commercials that advertise medications and supplements to discuss with your doctors if and as appropriate to your health and in and for longevity, it is hard to believe that this Grandma is writing this post suggesting supplements and medication for us Boomers to discuss with specialist doctors to see if […]
We Boomers Are in Medical La La Land If We Do Not Expect Medical Issues To Permeate Our Lives Now and NUMBER ONE TIP For Medical Survival Through Our Seventies
June 5, 2019 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma has been living in medical La La Land. GG (Great Grandmother, now age 95) said live to the fullest and travel in ‘Young Old’ which is until age 84 because that starts ‘Old Old’ and your life changes drastically. I even asked each of my doctors if we Boomers can expect ‘Old Old’ […]
Best Four Tips We Boomer Women Should Share About Menopause and Beyond
March 7, 2019 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma has written about how we should have friends that are at least ten years older than us so we can learn what faces us in life and friends that are at least ten years younger than us so we can pay it forward. There is no substitute for life experience and the wisdom […]
Goal Setting & Pursuing Your Passionate Purpose In The New Year! From An Expert Health & Wellness Coach
January 9, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Just too few years ago, our younger daughter re-introduced us to a high school friend with whom she reconnected. As we of long years know, intervening years melt away when we reconnect with an old friend from our “prior lives.” It is so fortunate that she is now part of our family’s life for more […]
