Our nation’s experience with great challenges forces us to pose one basic question: “What is really important – to ourselves, to our families, and to our collective community?”
Let’s remember to learn the lessons of our family historians, our tour guides to another time and to places we have never been and may never again [...]
When it comes to explaining excess weight, some people believe that obesity and other weight issues “run in the family.” In any family, there can be generations – from grandparents to children – of overweight family members. What is a problem for the grandparent and parent is frequently a problem for the child; however, simply [...]
Originally published in GRAND Magazine Issue 17 July-August 2007 pp 42-47
Becoming a grandparent fulfilled an important goal for Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi’s entry into politics seems preordained. She comes from a family where public service is a tradition and a privileged calling. Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., served as mayor of Baltimore for [...]
The best in children’s literature, selected by Jim Whiting.
Julie Phillipps
J.C. Phillipps grew up in Toledo, Ohio and has been an artist her entire life. She studied theater and playwriting in college and eventually put the two together to become a writer and illustrator of picture books. She currently lives in Connecticut with her [...]
Mealtime in an Amtrak dining car is always a surprise. With family-style seating, you never know who’ll be sharing your table; and in the course of many long-distance train trips I’ve drawn everything from a Japanese doctor specializing in organ transplant to a 300-pound biker in a tank top.
The United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling on California’s video game law, opposing the rights of parents to keep their children safe from mature-rated adult video games.
The California law banning the sale and rental of explicit video games to minors without parental consent was passed in 2005, but was overturned by lower [...]
One of the most important tasks of grandmothers is to support our adult children in their choices, their rules, and their lessons when it comes to raising their kids, our grandchildren.
Sometimes the need for such support comes in unexpected ways.
Megan called one day last week, starting the conversation …READ MORE
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