Celebrate Auntie’s Day with Your Favorite Aunt
Auntie’s Day is the brainchild of Melanie Notkin. Leave it to a savvy lifestyle expert to come up with a celebration for women who are not moms but do a lot for the children in their lives.
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Making Toast Shows How to Live with Loss
If one of your grandchild’s parents died, would you be able to step in and fill their role? Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt did exactly that when their 38-year old daughter died.
Read More »Grandparent Alienation Affects Many Families
Are you afraid of being cut off from your grandchildren? If so, you’re not alone. Grandparent alienation is a problem affecting families across the country.
Read More »Parenthood Can Be a Mixed Bag
Parenting can be a mixed bag filled with incredible highs and devastating lows. And parenting adult children who are now parents themselves can be just as tricky.
Read More »Grandma’s Favorite Apps for Kids
The promise of playing with apps has given me some leverage with my granddaughters. I just have to say, “when you finish your chores, we can try out a new app!”
Read More »Peaceful Piggy Meditation Teaches Children Inner Harmony
MacLean says that meditating is a self-care regimen like brushing your teeth that keeps your mind happy and healthy the same way you keep your teeth clean and healthy.
Read More »A Tyrannical Mother-In-Law Tale—Indian Style
In Indian tradition an expectant mother delivers her baby at her mother’s or mother-in-law’s home. A post-partum mom describes her stay with her tyrannical mother-in-law.
Read More »DIY Haircuts Are a Rite of Passage with Little Girls
DIY haircuts among four-year olds are a classic rite of passage. Fortunately, my nine-year old only whacked her American Girl Doll’s hair and not her younger sister’s.
Read More »Affirmations Help Children Build Positive Mental Habits
My daughter and granddaughters started meditating. The results have been noticeable. Their meditation practice includes reading affirmations from a book by Yvonne Read.
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