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The Granny Diaries: An Opinionated How-To Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Adair Lara
Creator: Patricia Storms
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 219898
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0811857328
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.10853
EAN: 9780811857321
ASIN: 0811857328
Publication Date: December 27, 2007
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Product Description
This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?). She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr. Sears guide chucked at the head. She offers wise counsel on how to stay on the parents' good side (hint: don't say anything, ever). Hilarious in its blunt truisms, The Granny Diaries steers around the shoals of grandma sentimentality. And yet, having fallen madly in love with her own grandchildren, Adair affirms that the years after the big G truly are golden.
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I wish I'd had this book 5 years ago! December 6, 2008
I wish Adair Lara had written her book when I first became a grandma. I would have felt so much better about all the mistakes I've made over the past five years. And I've made every mistake in the book - Lara's book!
I just finished her book with a smile on my face and a huge sense of relief in my heart. All those feelings I've had about my relationship with my daughter are completely "normal" - at least according to Lara! And that emotional roller coaster my daughter and I ride every time I visit is just all part of the process of being and becoming a grandmother.
What I enjoyed about Lara's book was her wry irreverence that captured so many of my own experiences - especially her perspective as the maternal grandmother.
Lara captures images of new moms with the accuracy of a digital camera. I read many passages aloud to my husband because they were so hysterically familiar. For example, "You thought a hormone-crazed teenage daughter was touchy? Try a nervous new mother trying desperately to prove that she knows what she's doing. Anything you say will be wrong. When you say I want to help, she hears, You're not doing it the right way."
Another mistake I made was to rush past my daughter at the front door to embrace my granddaughter. Lara reminds us that we must cultivate the relationship with our children because they are "indispensable in the production of these magical beings."
Such great insight and advice!
 A new father's mother August 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Granny Diaries is a great book with great advice for new grandparents. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one reading. However, when I got to the part about the "Other Grandmother" meaning the mother of the father of the new baby I was very disappointed in the way that grandparent was treated. If you are the new grandmother of a child born to a daughter then you will like this book from beginning to end but if you are the new grandmother of a child born to a son and you also happen to be a mother of only sons then you may be as hurt as I was when you realize that the author does not believe that you will ever be as important in the life of your grandchild as the mother of the child's mother. I cannot imagine anything more precious than seeing your sons become fathers. I have two sons and they have just had sons 5 days apart. I am a very proud grandmother and already love those two boys and can't wait to be part of their lives. This book is supposed to be funny and I realize that the author is being humorous about the "other grandmother" but should have been more sensitive to their feelings. If that chapter in the book had been a little more sensitive I would have given this book 5 stars.
Every New Grandmother;s book July 6, 2008
This book is a MUST for all new grannies and also a fantastic book for not new grannies.I laughed my head off. I have two granddaughters, one who is 3 months old, and it gave me a lot of insight and a lot of laughs. It is worth every penny. BUY IT!! It is even helpful and hilarious if you have friends with new babies. It is a different world than it was when we had babies in the 70's.
Loved the book! May 14, 2008
I've always enjoyed Adair Lara's writing and this book reminds me of why I read everything I see that she writes. She is my voice. Our experiences are different but we end up at the same place.
I ordered the first copy of the book for a co-worker who I really thought needed it ; i.e. first time grandmother for an only child BUT grandmother = experienced special education pre-school teacher and daughter = dentist. New mother showing videos so new grandma would know how to diaper and swaddle "right". New grandma trying to do right but a bit lost in the "modern" world.
After reading the book before giving it to her, I ordered a second copy for my great-grand-niece who is also a new grandmother. They're doing better but I realized that it could help her perspecive, too.
I, of course, will ignore all of it when it comes to my step-grands!
Lovely and enormously useful April 15, 2008
Just finished reading The Grannie Diaries and while I haven't had the pleasure of reading any of the San Francisco Chronicle articles by this wonderful and enormously wise grannie, I am certainly going to look up the column! Planning to buy a whole bunch to give as presents to all my new Grannie friends. Going to visit my grand-daughter this weekend and will put into practice what she's taught me.
Be involved without being intrusive. That is the key to the whole thing!
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