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recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
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recent posts
- Sharing Family History: What one generation owes another.
- Gifting and Getting: A wish list for gifts from grandkids
- Blast from the Past: Our youthful slang is no longer passé.
- Money Matters: Data on how the Bank of Mom and Dad is doing?
- After the Minneapolis Killings: Nora Ephron on parenting grown children
© Penelope Lemov and Parenting Grown Children, 2025. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given.
Category: gift giving
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Practical tips on choosing a gift to grandkids.
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Redressing the gift-giving balance when our grown kids are no longer little kids.
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A simple way to get your grown kids–or grandkids–started on the road to becoming a millionaire.
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Nostalgia aside, it’s both easier and more complicated to give our Grands the gift of a US Treasury Bond
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When should the Bank of Dad or Mom shut its doors?
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Research suggests there’s a mood boost to indulging our grown children–even if others think we’re spoiling them rotten.
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Grandparenting: The gift of helping Grands understand how children in other parts of the world live.
Gifts are an opportunity for grandparents to guide their Grands into understanding how children live in undeveloped parts of the world.
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In the annals of family gift-giving, I scored a home run recently: I gave my daughter—a grown child who already has 1 husband, 1 child, 1 dog, 1 highly competitive job and 1 small house — the gift of once-a-fortnight housecleaning service. Not that I barged in with the present virtually wrapped in cheery gift…
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