A 10-year-old girl in Massachusetts now logs on at the same time as her grandparents in Poland.
Though many people’s mental image of LA is mansions and backyard pools, the reality is that much of the city is home to immigrant families who live in modest homes with children, parents, and grandparents alike—and often in crowded circumstances.
When I started to write, I thought of the grandparents, the children, the fathers and the mothers.
Most of my friends’ homes included at least one grandparent, and all grandparents spoke with Yiddish accents.
Kaur, a second-generation immigrant whose family moved to California from Chandigarh in the 1980s, came out to her mother later that year, who then told Kaur’s father and grandparents.
As a parent and grandparent, I can think of nothing more distressing than senseless violence against children.
Seeing scaffolding surround this monument to her Soviet youth, she writes, “I felt as if some dear old grandparent had died.”
But making the decision to take the car keys from a parent or grandparent is never an easy one.
So if a long lost grandparent decides to pony up some cash, say so in your update letter.
Also: Disconnect your chatty grandparent's telephone immediately.
He looked almost as any grandparent might have looked going to join a favorite grandchild at a park bench.
When the boy came in sight of the cabin he beheld his grandparent seated in the doorway absorbed, apparently in deep reflection.
And laughing in the face of her daughter's horrified protest, the mutinous grandparent retired precipitately to her own room.
"I cannot think of anything terrible enough, Willie," replied the grandparent.
But our grandparent was puzzled, for she knew with whom she had to deal, and of course saw that money would do nothing.