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Do You Have A Rude Grand Teen?

(Editor’s Note: Most always we are so in love with our grand kids that we overlook many behaviors that may seem a little strange to us, but rudeness is not one of them. Hope you enjoy this article from an experienced mom offering four tips if your teen granddaughter or grandson behave rudely to you [...]

Grandparents & Grandchildren Do NOT Have A Common Enemy

Grandparents & Grandchildren Share a Common Ally!

By Donne Davis – Founder of the GaGa Sisterhood www.gagasisterhood.com an award winning website where grandmas bond, brag, and benefit.

Being a grandparent is complicated. I discovered that nine years ago after witnessing the birth of my first grandchild. I was blessed to be the first person to [...]

A Grandma’s Poem for Her New Grandbaby

A Poem for My New Grandson

By Debra Karplus

Welcome to the world, little boy.

You’ve brought our family so much love and joy.

Sleep peacefully, baby, your world is still safe, warm, soft and kind.

I gaze at you and imagine about the future path you might find.

Will you be creative like your [...]

Cast a Vote for Littlest Heroes with a Big Mission

Would you cast a free e-vote to make a more humane world? Just click here: http://giveforyouth.maker.good.is/projects/humane-heroes and vote (you will need to fill out your name) and you support American Humane Association and the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation’s new nationwide afterschool program to teach children to value all living things: America’s Children to Help Build [...]

Why Was Another Young Life Lost to Suicide?

Editor’s Note: We wanted to reprint this eulogy for Aaron Swartz, as he was someone’s grandson and he deserved to live a long and productive life. Suicide by young people is rising especially in the military.

Aaron Swartz was an internet leader and free-speech advocate. He helped organize the worldwide movement to keep [...]

A Sneak Peek into the Secret Life of Grandma Debbie

By Debra Karplus

I’m organizing some drawers and stumble upon a shoebox containing five years of my diaries from the 1960s. They are covered with some green-ish moldy-looking stuff, but they don’t smell funky. But, perhaps my sixty-something year old sense of smell is not as acute as it used to be.

These days you [...]

Are You Being Kind to Yourself?

Submitted by Charlie Palmer, AKA Paw Paw

As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

Whose business is it, if I choose to [...]