Lee and Paul | September 11, 2009

So have you bought your Grandparents a gift for Sunday? How about a card? Have you tried the recording? For those of you who have grandparents that have made an impact on your life, make Sunday special and show them your love. We realize that our reverence for grandparents has been less than consistent. One of us had grandparents that he still talks about wistfully. While the other has one grandparent left and she is tired of encouraging her to go into the light.

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Tags: children, grandparents, Parenting

Lee and Paul | September 10, 2009

It is Thursday in the CoupleDumb and we are talking about those odd, rumpled time travelers from an age gone by that we call grandparents. They may be lovable, senile, bitter or long gone but we all have some aspiration of being a grandparent, even if we do not want to deal with that whole messy childrearing thing.

Category: Relationship Rejects | No Comments »
Tags: Developmental Psychology, Erikson, grandparents, Paiget, Parenting, Relationship

Lee and Paul | September 9, 2009

We have been sequestered in a hovel for the past two weeks writing our CoupleDumb book on relationships. It promises to be a relationship book like you have never seen before. In the meantime, nothing brings a smile to our face like smacking down celebrities! We have missed dissecting, dismembering and disrespecting these people and we are happy to return to our posts as the Sentinels of Bad Relationship Examples. Since we are talking about Grandparents this week, we thought we would train our eyes on the Granny’s and Grandpa’s of Hollywood. That’s right, not only will we help them across the street, we’ll whack them with their own cane when they get there.

Category: Celebrity Smackdown | No Comments »
Tags: Aaron Spelling, Candy Spelling, grandparents, Melrose Place, Tori Spelling