Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes...No Two Are Alike: Words of Wisdom, Gentle Advice, & Hilarious Observations

by Janet Lanese

Overview

When a child is born, a miracle happens—someone becomes a grandmother!

For first-time grandmas, beloved veterans, or grandmas-in-waiting, this warm, wonderful book captures all the joy and humor of one of a woman's most  life-altering experiences. Heartwarming observations from such famous names as Margaret Mead, Jane Russell, and Margaret Thatcher; poems to copy and stick on the refrigerator; words of advice to "accidentally" leave on a daughter-in-law's kitchen table, suggestions to smooth the rough times or increase the joy, it's all here to read and treasure.

Don't miss . . . 

• Special things only a grandmother can do

• Family history a grandmother can pass on

• A precious gift every child needs from a grandmother

• Secret satisfactions a grandmother feels

• How a grandmother can act even wiser than she is

And more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307569585
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/02/2009
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Janet Lanese is a perfect example of a grandmother of the nineties.  She combines multiple careers as a real estate broker, a writer for her community newspaper, a co-hostess for a local television program, and a contributing editor for over thirty parenting and religious magazines.  Janet Lanese lives in Castro Valley, California, and, even with her busy schedule, she finds time to enjoy her three grandchildren.

Read an Excerpt

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. When a man’s mother holds his child in her gladden arms he is aware of the roundness of life’s cycle; of the mystic harmony of life’s ways.
Christopher Money
 
 
The birth of a child in the family can be the greatest leveler of differences, bringing
everyone together.
Grandma Jan
 
Grandma’s home is her grandchildren’s second home, a sort of security blanket they can escape to when the world is unfriendly.
Grandma Jan
 
Parent-child relationships are complex. Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.
Grandma Jan
 
What’s so simple even a small child can manipulate it?
Why, a grandmother, of course!
Anonymous
 
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
 
The Queen Mother, with a lifetime’s popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as a national grandmother—warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother.
John Pearson
 
 
Since the beginning of time grandmothers have been negotiators and peacemakers in their families.
Grandma Jan
 
The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
Margaret Mead
 
 
Children have more need of models than critics.
Joseph Joubert
 
 
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
 
 
All children wear the sign:
I want to be important NOW!
Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.
Dan Pursuit
 
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
A Dorothy Law Nolte
 
In order not to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
 
 
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Goethe
 
Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
Proverbs 17:6
 
Grandchildren restore our zest for life, and our faith in humanity.
Grandma Jan
 
OId-fashioned grandmothers take their grandchildren by the hand and lead them into the future. They are safe and kind, and wiser than the child’s mother.
Florence King
 
 
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends—and hardly ever our own grown children.
Ruth Goode
 
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
 
God gave us loving grandchildren as a reward for all our random acts of kindness.
Grandma Jan
 
There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways of holding a baby, and they are all right.
Heywood Broun