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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.
- 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: grandparenting
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It is uncomfortable to watch when our grown children impose stricter disciplinary measures than we would. But that’s their right.
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One grandmother articulates what it is she loves about babysitting her grandchildren.
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We hear the car pull up just as the 11:00 nightly news draws to a close. Uber son and his family have arrived: they've come home for a long weekend visit. Our voices are hushed as we hustle out to the car. The two-year-old is bundled from car seat to a big bed inside. The…
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Our grandchildren’s table manners can be a major irritant when they’re visiting us.
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"Remember those news clips of the Beatles landing in the US in '64–the crowds going crazy, jumping up and down?" This is the question Alpha Daughter poses to Paterfamilias. It is also her report on the reception I received when I arrived in Berlin a few weeks ago to visit her and her family. My…
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Lots of things that happiness theory counts as measures for inculcating joy into our life are inherent in the parenting of grown children and the grandparenting of their offspring.
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We are in Budapest, traveling around, seeing the world, sending home emails to our grandchildren. We understand they have opened their maps, are tracking our trip and, hopefully, gaining a sense of the world from the details we provide. We tell them that Budapest is a very bicycle-friendly city–even the traffic lights have little bicycles…
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When all the grandchildren come for visit, there’s a danger in diluting our attention and breaking that special-relationship bond we have with each child.
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Some tips on breaking the conversational ice with a grandchild.
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