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Dec 21, 20233 min read
Buzzfeed Listed Indispensable and Inexpensive Products For Parents That Will Make Grandparents Lives Easier Too So Buy For Their Home Too
This Grandma has become a Buzzfeed fan. I first saw the car seat opener, that is incredible and even easy for a mechanically challenged...
Oct 27, 20234 min read
The Five Best Rules and Regulations For In-Law Parents and All Grandparents That Make Them The Indispensable Go-To Grandparents
Why does this Grandma use the terms “rules and Regulations” and for “in-law parents”? If you, the reader, are asking, then you are new to...
Jun 3, 20234 min read
The Best Relationship Advice of Two Questions This Grandma Has Learned to Share With Grandchildren
QUESTION NUMBER ONE Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged? How many times has someone dear to us been upset and we mistake their...
Apr 1, 20235 min read
Two Important Tips About Using Amazon You Probably Never Knew and More About How Amazon Participation
As an Amazon shopper, I know the negative vibe. If you shop Amazon consistently, you are putting small businesses out of business. I...
Aug 13, 20225 min read
The Six Episodes of A Real Marriage of Movie Icons Paul Newman and JoAnn Woodward Will Provide Insight That Can Improve Your Own Relationship
As a family court judge, I served to dissolve tens of thousands of marriages over twenty years. Ethan Hawke (I had heard of him but knew...
Jul 9, 20224 min read
The Best Advice to Give Our Sons and Grandsons After the Roe v. Wade Decision is to Wear A Condom Or They May Be Giving A Large Percentage of Their Net Income for Eighteen Years To A Woman Whose Last
The above advice was how I started a speech to a professional legal group, mostly men, when I was a sitting Florida family court judge...
Apr 1, 20206 min read
Twelve Tips on How We Grandparents Can Help the Parents of Our Grandchildren Survive Home 24-7 With Their Children
This Grandma tells the parents of our grandchildren that if they lament that a grandchild is behind in a skill or learning that the...
Oct 9, 20193 min read
Grandparents Also need a Handy List of Questions to Ask Grandchildren That Will Get Them To Share About Their Day
We grandparents have Face Time. We grandparents have texting. We grandparents have old fashioned telephone contact. When we ask our...
Nov 1, 20185 min read
The Lessons This Grandma learned from Watching Parents Walk With and Engage Their Babies, Toddlers,
Spending a month in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I was surprised to see so many strollers and so few tourists. This is clearly New York...
Nov 3, 20174 min read
Top Four Tips For Grandparents To Conquer Sibling Rivalry
A dear grandma friend complained that her two grandsons, ages nine and seven, constantly fight. Their parents separate them by sending...
Sep 8, 20179 min read
This Grandma Says Always Go To The Parent of Your Grandchildren Who Is Your Child First About Any Is
This Grandma has several mantras, which you can see by reviewing the archives of this blog. Grandparenting should be all joy and no...
May 23, 20178 min read
Six Tips On How Grandma Can Be the Maternity Concierge and Continuing Concierge to the Parents of Our Grandchildren Or Not
The Today Show, on May 11, 2017, had a segment about an admirable new project, maternity concierge, that businesses are starting. They...
Apr 14, 20172 min read
At What Age Will Our Grandchildren Remember Their Childhood Trips and Adventures With Us
This Grandma loves our multi generational trips and adventures which began when our first grandson was a toddler. Our first trip was to...
Jan 18, 20177 min read
Five Examples of Teaching Grandchildren About Shopping and Returning What We Purchase in This New World of the American Shopping Experience
Our grandchildren learn about shopping as early as toddlers. No, it is not the comparison shopping of getting good quality at a good...
Jan 9, 20175 min read
Expectations and Disappointment in the Search for Perfect Grandparents
Family relationships are complicated. The same DNA does not guarantee family bliss. Somehow there is an expectation that when a...
Aug 7, 20166 min read
Grandparents’ Favoritism Is Real In Many Families and Its Consequences May Last Generations
Very often this Grandma is asked by grandparents if there is a difference between being the grandparents of a son’s children or a...
Jul 19, 20163 min read
No More Scraping The Bowl When and If Baking With Grandchildren and Throw Away Your Flour
Grandchildren love scraping the bowl of cookie dough or the like. They love it more than cleaning the bowl at the sink, although they...
Feb 18, 20167 min read
Depression of Either or Both Parents of Our Grandchildren, Before or After the Birth, is Something We Grandmas Can Identify and Should
Within the last few weeks, pre and post partem depression is in the news, first for women. At the end of January 2016, the United States...
Jan 12, 20165 min read
It is Not Too Soon To Have Dear Abby’s Teen Car Contract and to Know What to Look for In Car Safety
This Grandma had a used car for the second daughter. However, newer safety features were not in the car, so it was traded up for a car...
Dec 25, 20159 min read
Active Shooter Training and How to Talk to Grandchildren About Terrorism Are Things We Grandmas All Must Know
This Grandma has had active shooter training from our brave and courageous local law enforcement. The trainers said to pass along the...
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