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- 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.
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- 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: grandchildren
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Even our very best friends don’t want to hear how adorable our grandchildren are. Or about the clever things they say. Honestly.
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You never know where that conversation opener with a preteen grandchild is going to come from–anything from baseball to The Runway.
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Some gifts we give our grown children–airline tickets to come home for the holidays–are really presents we’re giving ourselves.
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When our kids make a decision to opt out of having children, we should be glad they can withstand the pressure to take the road less taken.
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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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When your grown children are the parents of a newborn, they may need your “been-there, done-that” advice but not always welcome it.
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Having frumious fun with the Grands, thanks to the lighter side of poetry and the prompts of an iPad.
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We look forward to vacations with our children and their children, but there can be as many perils as there are pleasures.
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