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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
© 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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There's a nanny site that loves to make lists–1o best ways to entertain a child waiting on line; 10 best things to do in the summer. There's now a six best tips on getting grandkids to bed. The focus is on the wee ones and most of the tips have to do with establishing a…
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A friend (and neighbor) has been spending the semester–she's an art teacher–in Italy. Her daughter, who lives far from her (not only from Italy but on the opposite coast in the U.S.), flew to Italy with her husband and year-old-daughter to spend six weeks of family togetherness. The fact that it was in Tuscany added…
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Over at the educated grandparent, a recent post admonished those of us retiring from our careers and jobs to remember to keep up with–or develop–interests beyond immediate family. It's not healthy for our grown children or us to live our retiree years through our children or grandkids. The post headed with this attention-grabber You…
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A friend is in a state of high distress. Her 39-year-old daughter–the mother of 6-year-old twins–is talking about moving half way across the country in another year or two. The daughter's husband–a man who started his military career at a young age–will be retiring from the army with a pension. The young family is looking…
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Came across a post on a parenting blog that listed 10 ways to be a fabulous grandparent. Some of it is the usual–have fun with and don't be afraid to be silly around the grandkids. But two key in on issues that are far from silly and can effect our relationship not only with the…
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When their daughter-in-law became desperately ill–sick enough to be in the hospital for a week–Alice and Edward went into crisis mode: picking up and delivering the two small grandchildren to day care and bringing them home at the end of the day; feeding them; playing with them and putting them to bed. Their son–the dad–was…
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