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Two fifty-six year-olds in the principal’s office, wondering what on earth we had done to get into this kind of trouble. That’s what my husband and I felt like as we waited to be interviewed as part of the entrance gymnastics for pre-kinder for our four year-old grandson, who we are helping to [...]
There is an expression in Spanish that loosely translated says: you cannot block out the sun with one finger (no se puede tapar el sol con un dedo). If anything, it takes one or two hands, especially on a bright sunny day. What it means is that you cannot cover up big problems with small [...]
By Lily Prellezo
When my husband and I were raising our two daughters, I felt my family was more than enough to bring up our children. Not until I became a grandmother helping to raise grandchildren did I recognize the wisdom of It takes a village to raise a child. Whereas, before, I [...]
By Lily Prellezo
Did your vote really count? I’m not talking politics here, but about your decision-making ability over the raising of your grandchildren. Do the parents really care about your platform for the children they brought into the world?
We live in a time of catchphrases, and one of the most popular (aside from [...]
By: Lily Prellezo
When in doubt, don’t wear your spanx to Disney on Ice. Preparing for my first field trip with my two year-old and four-year old grandsons, my greatest worry was whether my butt would look too big in my jeans. What would all the young mothers from daycare think of my outfit? Who [...]
By Lily Prellezo
It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child. When my husband and I were raising our two daughters, I strongly believe it was a mother and father, a family, that was all one needed to raise children. Being one of six siblings, and number thirty-four of fifty-three [...]
Now that you are one, you may not like to think back on who was your favorite grandparent while you were growing up.
For me, it was my father’s father, my first love. As soon as I learned to write, my first love letters were for “Pancho,” our nickname for him. While sitting on his [...]
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