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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: grandchildren
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Pride and Prejudice–the Masterpiece Theater version–bridges the entertainment gap for our three-generation family vacation.
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As grandparents we experience a double dose of emotions for both joyous and heartrending events: one set for our grandchild; the other for the parents, our grownchildren.
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New grandparent alert: When our kids have kids, they need our support–not necessarily our advice.
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Am I my child’s repository? How to keep the warehousing of our children’s mementos in check.
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An advice columnist puts our gift-giving indulgences in perspective, at least in terms of our grandkids.
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It may be unintentional but it hurts when our grown children leave us feeling we’re not a part of their family.
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We can interfere in our grown children’s lives if we do it very carefully and cautiously.
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Thank you http://afterthekidsleave.com for this William Morris downsizing reminder: “Keep nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” Or that your kids will want.
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