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: grandparenting
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Stepkids, grandkids of stepkids: Connie Schultz reminds us that it doesn’t matter, that the magic of grandparenting knows no bounds.
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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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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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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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