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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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Even before grandbabies are born–or even conceived–grandparents-to-be can start saving for their college costs.
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As our grown kids get older, they may find pleasure in a gift from a treasure in our storage bins.
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Practical tips on choosing a gift to grandkids.
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All kinds of past grievances can surface when our children come home for a long visit. Is it our job to put out the fire?
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Changing of the guard: When dinner is at a grown kid’s house, we’re no longer in charge of the what we’ll talk about.
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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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Traveling with grown children and their children can be challenging, but the excitement of adventure may be just around the corner.
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We bear witness to the transition as a13-year-old grandson toggles back and forth between the childhood center of his world (his family) and the adolescent one (friends).
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For those of us who started our journalism careers during the Mad Man era, Jill Abramson’s firing is a reminder to remind our grown children how far we have to go and how far we’ve come.
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