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The Granny Diaries: An Opinionated How-To Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Adair Lara
Creator: Patricia Storms
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $7.58
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 78858
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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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!
a book for grandmas that won't induce a diabetic coma! February 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a grandmother, but most books directed at me are sickly sweet and thus either are unreadable or make me feel as if I should immnediately don an apron and make some cookies and start patting someone short on the head. This book actually makes it cool to be a grandmother. It's very funny, and the advice could mean your daughter will start taking your calls again
Essential for any grandparent February 29, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Adair Lara's new book, about bravely facing up to grandparenthood, would appeal to any reader who is curious about entering this new phase of life. How do you deal with the fact that your own child, whom you still think of as your little girl or boy, is about to become a parent?
Devoted readers of Adair's columns in the San Francisco Chronicle will expect her comments to be thoughtful, poignant and humorous, and they will not be disappointed. She writes with an intimate, personal style, an objective point of view, and a sense of humor that is subtle and bewitching. Don't be surprised if you read this book in one sitting, even if you are not a grandparent; in fact, it's a great read for anyone, of any age. If you don't know Adair Lara's writing, you are missing something priceless. - Grandpa in California
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