Ten Things Nanas Are Better At Blogging About

The fastest growing demographic when it comes to social networking and blogging are what I refer to as Nana Bloggers: over 50 grandmothers.  That’s me, an over 50 nana of one who loves to blog. Not all my friends’ blog as often or as much as I do.  “I just don’t know what to blog about,” they say.  My answer to them is, “Write what you know. When you get together with all your girlfriends what do you talk about?”

In case you don’t know what women my age talk about I’ll tell you, then the next time you are stuck for a topic just refer to this list.

Ten Things Nana Bloggers Know Best

10.  Causes. Women my age have sat through way too many PTA meetings. We have volunteered countless thankless hours at schools and helped our kids force our friends and neighbors to buy everything from Girl Scout cookies to overpriced candles. At this stage in our lives we have a little more time and we can afford to give of our time and talents to organizations that depend on volunteers to help others. Pick one, Red Cross, Save the Children, World Vision, Compassion, the environment. Whatever you care about, blog about it.

9. Men. Yes, they are from Mars. They think PMS is a television channel. Young boys are made of frogs, snails and puppy dog tails. Teenage boys are made of dreams of teenage girls, pizza and trucks. Real men are made of old spice and M and Ms. Because they are hard on the outside, soft on the inside and they melt in a woman’s arms. Behind every successful Grandpa there’s a Nana who helped him get there.  Where would they be without us?

8. Kids. We push them in baby carriages, push them to join play groups, push them to get into the best schools, push them out of the house and into college, sometimes they boomerang and come back to us so we push them back out of the house…again, we  push them into marriage and finally push them to give us grandchildren.  Then the baby is born and walah, we  start all over again.

7. Medication, constipation, heart attack, cataracts, cholesterol, Geritol, mammograms, menopause, migraines, hypertension, heart burn, depression, diarrhea, bunions, bladder infections, root canals, arthritis,  colitis, flatulence and colonoscopies.  Been there done that.  Nana’s can give advice, loan you pills, and recommend a doctor, a hospital, a procedure, a surgeon.  Whatever ailment you have had Nanas have either had it or know someone who has.  If someone in the family is sick don’t call the doctor first, call Nana. She’ll tell you what to do.

6.  Politics. Let’s face it when it comes to politics the Nana Generation has seen it all. We’ve lived through generations of people who never should have been in politics but somehow ended up there.  We’ve had Presidents who were actors and adulterers. Presidents who thought it was okay to spy on the opposing party and president’s whose mouths needed to be washed out with soap.  Politics and politicians are fun to blog about because usually they are very smart people who often do really stupid things.

5.  Sports.  You think men are the only ones who can blog about sports, think again. By the time a woman is my age she has sat through enough little league, grade school, high school and college ballgames that she could referee better than most paid officials from mid court using only a pair of binoculars (our eyes aren’t that good anymore and I sure can’t run up and down a court without having a heart attack) and a whistle (a loud whistle, the hearing isn’t what it used to be either).

4. Food. Even women who don’t cook love food and often get more excited over going to a 5 star restaurant than they do when there’s a blue light special at K-mart.  Nana’s love bargains but they love good food more, especially when someone else does the cooking and cleaning up.

3. Decorating.  This is fun to talk about because what starts out as a small project always morphs into redecorating the whole house. If you paint the walls, then you need new carpet. If you get new carpet, then you need new curtains. And on and on…..

2. Whenever a group of women get together it’s just a matter of time before they discuss body parts.  They talk about the need and cost to fix them and whether or not it’s worth it. It starts when little girls are given their first Barbie doll and it never ends.  No matter what we look like we are never, ever satisfied.

1. And the number one thing Nanas can blog about better than anyone else- their grandchildren, of course. If you didn’t guess that one then you obviously haven’t seen pictures of my granddaughter. She’s the most beautiful, smartest, most talented child in the universe. The only other children as beautiful as she is have not been born yet. They are my future grandchildren and I can’t wait to be their nana too!