Notes to Self: Daily Reminders
- Overlook it. If you can't overlook it, forgive it.
- It's their life.
- If they want advice, they'll ask for it.
- Keep up your own interests.
- Be enthusiastic. It beats being critical.
- It's better to be liked than right.
- Let them treat you to something.
- Keep good-housekeeping tips to yourself
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Categories
- 401k accounts
- 529 accounts
- adult children
- american girl doll
- anger management
- baby advice
- babysitting
- Being ignored
- boomerang kids
- brain changes
- buying a house
- car loan
- Celebrating holidays
- centrality
- college bound
- college debt
- college students
- Communications
- control issues
- disciplining grandchildren
- economy and jobs
- elderly parents
- Emerging Adulthood
- empty nests
- estate planning
- family milestones
- foreclosure
- generation gap
- gift giving
- grandchildren
- grandchildren and Internet
- grandchildren and screen time
- grandchildren and soccer
- grandchildren and sports
- grandchildren and vacations
- grandchildren communication
- grandparenting
- grannies as nannies
- grown children
- guest privileges
- happiness theory
- health insurance
- helicopter parents
- hiring your children
- holidays and adult children
- housing
- illness
- leaving a legacy
- Lending money
- letting go
- loans to adult children
- money
- Moving back home
- newborn babies
- parenting tips
- paying for vacations
- Rewarding Reads
- Roth IRA
- setting boundaries
- sibling rivalry
- Skype
- smother love
- social media etiquette
- student loans
- supporting adult children
- taxes
- Travel
- vacation with grown children
- vacations
- weddings
