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Who Carries The Responsibility For Your Child’s Choices?

Before I had children, I knew exactly how to raise kids. I watched carefully as a family with 6 children, ages 1 to 13 sat quietly through an entire church service. Even the baby! Now there! THAT is how MY kids are going to behave, I decided. After all, I would have control over my children. Weren’t they my [...]

6 Ways to Celebrate Grandma on Mother’s Day

Grandmothers get younger with every generation. I have friends who jumped that line way back at the 40-year-old mark (and others in their 60s who are still trying to keep up with their first set of children, but that’s another story).

Because so many moms are busy raising their own young, grandma can often [...]

Your Grandchild with a Physical Disability

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

 Your grandchild has a physical disability. Perhaps it is from a congenital disorder, something that happened before birth, such as a club foot which ultimately requires the use of leg braces; or the result of an incident at the time [...]

Who Will Remember You? Your Grandkids?

By:  Lily Prellezo

 

Who will remember you when you’re dead and gone? Will your legacy simply fill a rectangle on a family tree or will the people on the lower branches remember who you were, where you were born, what school you attended, your struggle, the endearments you called your spouse, your favorite ice [...]

Grandma Stalker

I saw him leave his parents’ side, a mischievous smile playing about his lips. Glancing back over his shoulder to see if his absence had been discovered, he quickly disappeared into the crowd. I followed. I adore little boys. I love their bright, inquisitive eyes, their fearlessness, their sense of adventure; their [...]

Chimpanzee – A Grand Movie to Take Your Grandkids to See

By Christopher Gildemeister for Parents Television Council

The latest of DisneyNature’s annual Earth Day releases, Chimpanzee follows the life of Oscar, a baby male chimp. The viewer sees the lives of a pack of chimps – how they eat, how they live, and how they fight others of their kind for territory. After his mother is killed, Oscar [...]

Memories of My Grandmother – A Holocaust Survivor

When my grandmother, Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, arrived as a refugee in the United States in 1949, she brought little more with her than a few pocket photos and memories of her family and life in Poland before the war. She was a survivor of the Holocaust and she’d lost nearly everything she’d ever loved.

Please [...]