PenPenWrites
parenting blog, memoir notes, family punchlines & more
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.
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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The gift of a book: Whether our grandkids read it or not, it’s on their shelf and sent with our love and imprimatur.
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When our grandkids say #Enough is Enough, we grandparents rally to support them. It’s their lives on the line.
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The times they are a changin’. So are the means our kids and grandkids use to say thank you for a gift.
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A little yoga workout forges the warmth of a special tie with a grandchild.
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Remembering the highs and lows of having grown kids and their families home for the holiday.
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It doesn’t matter what form it takes, but a key part of our legacy for our children and grandchildren is a a sense of our values and life experiences.
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There is joy in vacationing with adult children and their families, but also the discomfort of bearing witness to a family dispute.
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No matter how old our children are–no matter how grown up and independent they become–there still is room for parental presence and the reassurance pf emotional support.
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