The Club I Didn’t Want to Join
How being a parent has changed since Boomer women were parents and how the grandparenting role is different from parenting
What Can You Do with Sidewalk Chalk and Dice?
The term “Fun with Grandchildren” is a description of fun activities that are free or inexpensive, with materials you are likely to have around the house, to enjoy with children or grandchildren.
When Did We Learn About the Dangers of Second-Hand Smoke?
How being a parent has changed since Boomer women were parents and how the grandparenting role is different from parenting
Fun with Grandchildren
Using sidewalk chalk and dice, grandchildren can learn and practice addition, while having fun.
It would take days to count to one million. But, what if there were something small, that you have around the house, that you could measure a million of?
If you want your grandchildren to understand big numbers, beyond how many zeros they have, former math teacher, David Adler, explains them, using everyday things in children’s lives for comparison. Using pizza boxes, stacks of dollar bills and the hair on your head, he answers the question, what is one million, really?
Books You’ll Love
One of the best things about Robert E. Wells’ book, “Can You Count to a Googol?” is that he takes you through the build-up of numbers slowly. Both author and illustrator, he shows you a whimsical imagining of 1, inviting readers to see themselves with one banana balancing on their nose. By the time you […]
It seems to parents and grandparents that children never want to go down for a nap when it’s time. What if a little guy wanted to, but couldn’t find a quiet place to sleep? Based on the author’s own sleeplessness while caring for a newborn son.
Indulge your inner child with the Disney movie, Mary Poppins. Watch this season’s “Saving Mr. Banks” for the back story on Disney’s 20-year negotiations with the author to get rights to the movie and give you context from the author’s own childhood, then indulge your grandchildren with the original classic book, Mary Poppins. You won’t be sorry.
New Grandmas
No one wants to join the breast cancer club. But, if they do join, they want to join the breast cancer survivors’ club.
Second-hand smoke is more dangerous than we first realized, especially for children. Now, we know that workers in restaurants and bars should not be exposed to second-hand smoke all day and most businesses ban smoking indoors, if not on their entire property.
Remember When?
At 20, I got pregnant, eloped, dropped out of school, and followed my husband to an Army post in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was in Officer Candidate School. It was 1968, near the height of the Vietnam War. Miniskirts were in. My boyfriend told me the popular song, “Sunny,” reminded him of me. When […]
We had five days to get married. I found out I was pregnant on Monday. He was scheduled to leave for boot camp on Friday, responding to a January 1 draft notice. He looked up the legal requirements for marriage in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, from his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. I […]
Exploring Family History
This is the anniversary of Antietam, where my husband’s great-grandfather was wounded, then served out the rest of the war as a wagon-master, then walked home to Georgia from Virginia.
Do you have relatives who took stories of World War II to their graves? Do you have a suspicion of what they were hiding? Did they tell you other stories?
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