It’s a common dilemma. Your friend, acquaintance, relative, or neighbor is laid up in bed, due to a sickness or some other disability. You feel badly for them, and you want to help out in some way. But you just don’t know what to do. You’re afraid to impose, and… Read More
The Case of the Bored Child goes like this: The child has a day off from school, and flops around while whining, “Mommy, I’m soooo bored! What should I do?” To which the mom calmly points to the Bored Check List that is posted on the fridge door. The boldly… Read More
Several months ago, sometime after the start of this grandmother or bubby blog, I started a new site just for mothers-in-law. My goal for this site has to educate mothers-in-law on how to facilitate a health relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, or MIL and DIL, as we call ourselves. Subscribers… Read More
When I think back on the fun and quality times with my children, I recall the music and singing. At one time or another, my sons took piano clarinet, violin and trumpet lessons. But that process of practicing and performing is not the music I remember as fondly as I… Read More
Sometimes I smother…and hover over my children. It wouldn’t be such a problem, if my children were 10 or 11. But they’re not. In fact, my children are all adults, and as much as I tend to forget it, quite capable ones too. When I smother my adult children with… Read More
