Albeit growing up in different eras, a person still connects with his grandparents simply because they are family. Their knowledge and stories hold invaluable lessons and help humanity to learn what makes a family. Below are some favorite recollections of our grandparents, who have made everyone laugh, cry, and be frustrated but make your lives meaningful by being there for you.
Grandparents have years of experience, making them the perfect mentor for children. They can teach grandchildren about culture, invaluable lessons, life skills, and values.
Grandparents were everyone’s first coach in every sport or game you played during your younger years. You learned so much in life. Your grandpa may be your first coach, and they are still going strong. Some little girls were not allowed to buy clothes for their dolls back then, so your grandma made you some. They taught you to sew and use the machine. Some of you are now fashion designers in the making.
Spending time with your grandparents taught you to be respectful and patient. The habits of older folks can seem weird and funny to children, and trying to understand older folks may seem impossible. Yet, the quirks of your grandparents may become the fondest memories you have of your grandparents.
The Books
The memories mentioned above are just some of the few things your grandparents are making. Moreover, an author named Kenny Harmon has written Sad Papaw books: Sad Papaw The Early Years, Sad Papaw Those Were The Years, and Sad Papaw Heritage.
Sad Papaw The Early Years
When Kelsey Harmon posted a tweet of her Papaw at a family barbecue, she had no idea that this clear message, meant to poke fun at her cousins, would start a wave of emotion to be felt around the world. Kenny Harmon, now labeled Sad Papaw, quickly gained thousands of followers who felt a twinge of pain from seeing his image in Kelsey’s tweet. His new friends and “adopted grandchildren” recognized a need in their lives to reconnect with their grandparents, and indeed they did.
The reaction from the tweet started a movement reminding people to hold their loved ones close and remember to make time for one another. This was one of the invaluable lessons that Kenny learned from his grandparents. In the pages of The Sad Papaw: The Early Years, he shares his life experiences with readers. Traveling back to Oklahoma’s early days, growing alongside Kenny, and learning all about the man behind the tweet.
Sad Papaw Those Were The Years
This book narrates the history of TV, music & movies of the 1950s & 1960s, the history of the war in the Pacific, the Korean War & Vietnam, the history of drag racing, the history of the NFL, the history of Jim Thorpe I of the greatest athletes, the story of Kenny Harmon being an outlaw in Missouri during the 1880s & numerous excellent photos!
Sad Papaw Heritage
Expanding on an internet meme, Kenny Harmon’s eminently readable book, SAD PAPAW’S HERITAGE, demonstrates how every individual has an exciting story to tell and that, in the telling, a more comprehensive history is revealed.
Author Bio
Kenny Harmon is a retired ironworker from Dibble, OK. He was a 4th generation farmer of watermelons & numerous other crops in the Dibble/Blanchard Okla communities. The story of Sad Papaw began on March 16th, 2016, when her granddaughter Kelsey Harmon posted a tweet about her Papaw cooking a dozen burgers for six grandkids, but she was the only one to be at his house.
Ten days later, on March 26th, Kenny had a cookout in which everyone was invited to a Sad Papaw cookout. More than two thousand people from at least 28 different states came. Folks from New York, Virginia, California, Washington, and Canada, and a woman was representing a media company from Australia! Since the big cookout, you have had cookouts for Veterans & the homeless.
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