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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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When our kids make a decision to opt out of having children, we should be glad they can withstand the pressure to take the road less taken.
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Grandparenting: The gift of helping Grands understand how children in other parts of the world live.
Gifts are an opportunity for grandparents to guide their Grands into understanding how children live in undeveloped parts of the world.
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When your grown children are the parents of a newborn, they may need your “been-there, done-that” advice but not always welcome it.
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Having frumious fun with the Grands, thanks to the lighter side of poetry and the prompts of an iPad.
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We look forward to vacations with our children and their children, but there can be as many perils as there are pleasures.
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The first morning of our weekend visit to Uber Son and family, we got up early: Soccer, soccer, soccer was the all-day plan. Paterfamilias was off to the four-game tournament the oldest Grand was playing in. PF was over-the-top excited about watching his grandson on the soccer pitch. All day: Couldn't be a better plan.…
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On our way home from a recent visit with Uber son–his is a family of five that lives some 350 miles away from us–Paterfamilias and I were in accord: The 2-day visit had been bittersweet. The sweetness was in the welcome when we arrived; in observing how grand our three Grands are, each in their…
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What has the grandparenting life come to? We had to make an appointment to telephone Happy Birthday wishes to a 10-year-old grandchild. Okay, it wasn't like a business apppointment but we did have to txt and e-chat to find a moment when the phone would be answerable and the appropriate child available to hear good…
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