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I love when the miles that separate us doesn’t get in the way when it comes to family and good friends.
As my husband and I are from New York. My In-laws from California. And our good friends from New Jersey. It was not difficult to pick one meeting ground so we can come together at the chosen place, Brendan’s Bar and Grill – I found it interesting that the name of our meeting place was one letter different from my married name – and it was chosen by a New Jersey residents. LOL!
Yup, three family’s from three different states managed to getting together to celebrate. What are we celebrating? Just the fact that we are family and friends.
Of course, the night did not end after Brendan’s. We then headed out into the sultry city night and took our celebration to another city site.
NYC never sleeps! And as the night was just beginning for some in NYC, ours was about coming to the end. Thank you, NYC! You are always a wonderful host.
GrandMothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation by Kathleen Stassen Berger explains how grandparents’ roles are encoded in their DNA. Citing substantial research over the centuries, Berger maintains that grandmothers are crucial for species survival. They help keep babies alive and allowed young mothers to bear additional children. Grandmothers protect children and families.
This book provides a 27-point road map of the important role grandmothers play in every phase of a child’s life, from infancy, to adolescence, to young adulthood.
Grandmothering: Building Strong Ties with Every Generation is filled with expert advice, tips, and anecdotes.
The book covers:
Glamma vs Grandma, what’s in a name?
How grandmothers can be supportive to the new parents and not intrusive.
The pitfalls of too much grandmothering which undermines the health and finances of grandmothers.
How parents should deal with “meddling” mothers and mothers-in-law.
The unique problems in three-generation households.
What a grandmother can do if her grandchild expresses opinions about sex, drugs, or politics that are at odds with her own beliefs.
How grandmothering for babies differ from grandmothering for teenagers.
When private conversations between an adolescent and grandmother should be shared with the parents. This becomes a serious problem with such issues as depression (suicidal thoughts), anger (especially at a parent), bullying, and dating.
How a grandmother can handle hot button issues such as language/slang, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
Author, Kathleen Stassen Berger, is a developmental psychologist, has taught psychology forty years at Bronx Community College, part of City University of New York. She is the author of the leading textbooks in human development, used by college students in all fifty states, twelve countries, and in five languages and most important a grandmother herself.
“Grandmothering starts with one moment-a birth-and never stops.”
Another birthday another reason to be with with the people who make you feel good about being you. Today we celebrate Mercis’ sister Marlene, the day started with torrential rain and we did not know if we could get to East Meadow, so happy to say the rain let up and we did make it. It was worth the trip. Marlene chose Sufiya’s Grill ~ East Meadow. We started with pitas and dip and tried the 3 appetizers, we shared a little of this and a little of that. Cheers!!
As always we had a therapy session going on even got a little loud talking about Social Security. Yeah that’s where we are at this time around. Ha!!
We were early enough to enjoy the lunch special, Marlene had the salmon, my sister Marianne went for the Cornish hen and both Merci and me ordered the shrimp. The lunch came with either a lentil soup or a salad. We took some of it home because we wanted dessert. Marlene chose the French Vanilla ice cream with banana, pineapples and walnuts. 4 spoons and we each had a taste. Being together always make makes hard times easier and the good times better.
Happy Birthday Marlene, luckily for you and us fabulosity has no age. Have a wonderful year, Beautiful.
A heartwarming touchstone to the legacy of one man and the difference he made in the world and a testament to the enduring power of education, How Languages Saved Me tells an unforgettable story of skill and survival — and one that just may inspire you to put down your credit card and pick up the phone to a grandparent this holiday season.
How Languages Saved Me started out as Tadeusz “Tad” Haska’s memoir, but he had not finished by the time of his passing at the age of ninety-three. His granddaughter Stefanie Naumann has since used recordings, journals, and letters to complete his story in his own words, culminating in what early reviewers are calling “a wonderful, suspenseful, and moving story” and saying “if you only read one book this year, make it this one!”
At the heart of How Languages Saved Me is the notion that every language can help you create a new life: Tad’s knowledge of nine (yes, nine!) languages helped him survive before, during, and after World War II. In one hundred and fifty heart-pounding — and sometimes darkly humorous — pages, readers will step inside Tad’s recollections of translating German newspapers to farmers, job instructions to French prisoners of war, and impersonating a German on occasion — as well as escaping jail by the Soviet Secret Police, fleeing to Sweden, and smuggling his wife to safety in a coffin on an all-male Naval ship. French Proverb: A man who knows two languages is worth two men.
