Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
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Grandma lessons is a site dedicated to helping parents, grandparents and of course grandchildren learn from each other, laugh, cry and share the best things in life together - each other.
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
1M ago
This week, in Mah Jongg, someone laid out three tiles with two of them jokers. Jokers are a good thing in any game. Someone bemoaned that the person had two jokers, and this person had none. I, the perpetual Pollyanna, a person who is constantly optimistic, said no. This is an opportunity for all of ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
2M ago
This Grandma is getting angrier and angrier about ageism. According to the World Health Organization, “ageism refers to the stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or oneself based on age.” I didn’t think about ageism until I was forced to mandatorily retire at age 70 a ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
2M ago
It is not without irony that 2024 has brought us Jews worldwide tsuris (the Yiddish word for troubles), and also upheaval for the rest of the world, that for Jews started with October 7, 2023. I find myself repeating my mother’s words so often, as I stand as the matriarch of a Holocaust family. My ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
3M ago
This post is dedicated to a dear friend who just entered into a new phase in her life, that of being a mother-in-law. Yes, there is a difference between being a mother and being a mother-in-law. All of this post applies to the father-in-law and grandfather in this day and age, and one previous blog ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
3M ago
Now that the new year 2024 is upon us, let us make a resolution to take care of our pets so they are cared for forever. When PopPop and I were ready to adopt two kittens, we were asked if we had plans for their care after our deaths as their life expectancy is twenty ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
3M ago
Upon the coming of the new year, for several years, I felt the need to write about my mother’s mantra that was uplifting and hopeful. See previous post, “. . . New Year’s Resolutions Focusing on Feelings That Span A Lifetime Will Bring Us Joy.” This year that post is not helping me meet the ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
3M ago
From a new baby registry to holiday presents to visit presents to school required reading at all ages, books connect us with our grandchildren and we want our grandchildren to connect us with books. We have reached to era where we grandparents tend to read books on our electronic devices, so we have to tell ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
3M ago
This Grandma has become a Buzzfeed fan. I first saw the car seat opener, that is incredible and even easy for a mechanically challenged grandma like me to use, in a Buzzfeed article. When you look at “36 Toddler Products That’ll Make You Think, “Wow, I Could Really Use This In My Life”” you will ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
4M ago
This Grandma has become a Buzzfeed fan. I first saw the car seat opener, that is incredible and even easy for a mechanically challenged grandma like me to use, in a Buzzfeed article. When you look at “36 Toddler Products That’ll Make You Think, “Wow, I Could Really Use This In My Life.”” you will ..read more
Grandma Lessons — A grandmother's blog on life
4M ago
It is always hard to get grandparents holiday gifts. All we grandparents want is time with grandchildren. In that vein, here are ideas for being together or remembering that to grandparents, something that reminds them of the joy of grandchildren is the best gift, and more that are interesting and unusual. The majority of gifts ..read more