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Warmable Stuffed Animals For Babies, Children, Ill and Infirm, and More, Oh My. This Grandma’s Successful Search for the Perfect Teddy Bear for the Perfect Four Year Old Grandson
Our adorable four year old grandson’s teddy bear got eaten by the dog. I know we hear this excuse of “eaten by the dog” but he was so...
Aug 26, 20224 min read
What Day(s) of the Week and What Time(s) Can I Leave My House To Most Likely Avoid A Mass Shooting in 2022
What is safety in 2022? Safety enough to go to the local supermarket….or a local July 4th parade in a suburb with not a single murder...
Jul 17, 20225 min read
Grandchildren Will Love Easy To Make July Fourth Red, White and Blue Dessert Kebabs
When Fourth of July rolls around, it is great to come up with red, white, and blue desserts to make with grandchildren. As with all the...
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Four Important Tips Regarding What to Do in An Active Shooter Event and What We Grandparents and Our Grandchildren’s Parents Can Begin To Do To Be Proactively Preventive Regarding School Shootings
The Uvalde school massacre has done this Grandma in. I want to address two important tips we parents and grandparents need to know now...
Jun 8, 20226 min read
Zoom Face is A Real Thing And Affects More Than We Realize, Which May Include When To Have the COVID Vaccine or Boosters
Going on our third year into pandemic life, we’re all still adjusting mentally and physically to this abnormal state. Many of us feel the...
May 8, 20223 min read
Our Teenage Granddaughter’s Award Winning Poem Brought Back the Reality that Being a Teenager is Hard Anytime,Harder During A Global Pandemic & We Grandparents Can Make It Easier Now and in the Future
During the COVID-19 coronavirus lock down period in March and April, 2020, I interviewed our older grandchildren, two aged 13 and one...
Apr 29, 20223 min read
What Message Are You Giving Your Children and Grandchildren About Living Life
Life and Death And Survival Among Jews these words resonate, as through history Jews and Jewish families have had to face the threat of...
Mar 18, 20227 min read
We Grandparents Have the Opportunity To Expand the Universe For Us and Our Grandchildren By Sharing the Journey of the Miraculous Space Marvel, The Webb Telescope, and Its Discoveries To Come
Grandparents can open grandchildren’s eyes to marvels of the world and expand their horizons, and in this case expand the universe for...
Jan 29, 20223 min read
We Boomers Have Been Waiting For the Exciting New Global News Organization Going to Be Started By Ben Smith, Media Columnist for the New York Times, and Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media Chief Executive
This Grandma, now retired, has the time daily and I read the local newspaper, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the New York Times, the...
Jan 15, 20223 min read
The Children’s Song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. . . “ Brings us To Three Important Tips For Boomer Grandparents’ “Eyes, Ears, Mouth, And Nose.”
Grandma loves the exercise and movement song to sing with grandchildren from toddlers to older than you would expect: Head, shoulders,...
Dec 24, 20214 min read
Take the Spookiness Out of Halloween 2021 with A Celebration of National Cookie Month
Halloween was and is always special to this Grandma. It enabled me, as a long distance grandma, to help select and buy Halloween costumes...
Oct 24, 20214 min read
COVID-19 shots For Kids 5-12 A No Brainer: What You May Not Know And Should Share
PFIZER HAS OFFICIALLY ASKED THE FDA TO AUTHORIZE THE COVID-19 VACCINE FOR KIDS AGED 5-11 AND AUTHORIZATION SHOULD BE FORTHCOMING SOON....
Oct 9, 20214 min read
Easy Vanilla or Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cake Recipe Especially With Grandchildren Who Love to Play in the Dirt
Our youngest grandchild has the largest sandbox at home created by his handy father. Nevertheless, he took his wagon, favorite excavator...
Aug 29, 20213 min read
What Family Vacations, Grandchildren, and Grandparent Electronics Lessons Have in Common
Not especially tech savvy, I wait for family vacations to pester our older grandchildren and ask their help to make my use of electronics...
Aug 15, 20213 min read
Winning the Battle But Losing the War By Failing to Follow Whatever New Parents’ Have As Their Rules
The headline on Fox News was: “Dad sends in-laws strict ‘guidelines’ for visiting newborn baby and it doesn’t go well” The author, Gerren...
Jul 22, 20215 min read
The Boomer’s Best Secret Weapon in America is Finally Being Appreciated and Respected
This Boomer Grandma has been hearing this for what seems like eons: Americans do not appreciate and sufficiently respect its elders....
Jun 13, 20214 min read
Father’s Day After the Pandemic Shutdown: Planning Get Togethers and More Gift Ideas
Last year, Father’s Day was like no other, and this Grandma acknowledged that with gifts appropriate to that experience. Father’s Day...
Jun 6, 20212 min read
The One Major Impetus For Our Friends and relatives To Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 As Soon As It Is Available To Them
There are risks to each of our choices as whether to vaccinate or not vaccinate for COVID-19. To think there are no risks is risky. We...
May 8, 20212 min read
Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder...
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Two Best Moisturizers That Take Care Of This Grandma’s Wrinkly Crepey Thighs, Skin and Neck Beautiful
This Grandma has a dear long (we never say old) friend who must have been a medicine woman in another life.Whenever I or a member of our...
Apr 11, 20215 min read
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