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Life Lessons From Memaw
"Do What You Need To Do"
Do you take parenting advice from someone who may NOT even be a parent?? Should you?
lifelessonsfrommem
Aug 143 min read
"Veruca Salt: I want a party with roomfuls of laughter, / Ten thousand tons of ice cream, / And if I don't get the things I am after, / I'm going to screeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEAM."
Parents know about The Witching Hour and some people have good advice on how to deal with it. But can't that same advice be used in other areas of our lives?
lifelessonsfrommem
Jul 315 min read
"E.T. phone home."
Another tool in our toolkit on how to parent our children.
lifelessonsfrommem
May 295 min read
"And you want my advice? Why me? Why now?" Because I know you think I was a shitty father. Thank you for not arguing. And I know you're a good father."
Being a parent isn't easy. You won't win any popularity contests!
lifelessonsfrommem
Mar 136 min read
"Dude, he's from Indiana. They only celebrate Love Your Cousin Day."
How do you celebrate the holidays--even the little ones?
lifelessonsfrommem
Feb 133 min read
"I can't take this anymore! This whole "teachable moments" of protecting their self-esteem and nobody gets punished and every game ends in a tie!"
As grandparents, we need to compliment more and criticize less.
lifelessonsfrommem
Dec 26, 20256 min read
"Grandma got run over by a reindeer Walking home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there's no such thing as Santa."
Competition between sets of grandparents?? Absolutely NOT!!
lifelessonsfrommem
Dec 19, 20255 min read
"First change I make is to send that two-faced little brat off to boarding school in Timbuktu."....Meredith (Elaine Hendrix)
The best people to listen to for parenting advice--child development psychologists.
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 17, 20256 min read
"Well, great! Let's see how I can screw the fourth one up! Hey, let's have five. Let's have six. Let's have a dozen and pretend they're donuts!"
You know more than you think you know about being a good parent (or grandparent)!
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 10, 20255 min read
"Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?"
New discoveries--I think they are good. But we need to change with these new inventions to keep everyone safe.
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 3, 20253 min read
Type C Parenting Style??
What type of parenting style is good for the parent and the child? Type C parenting style??
lifelessonsfrommem
Jul 11, 20255 min read
The Hardest Job In The World
The hardest job is parenting. We may all become one but how do we know how to do that job? There is no job orientation or probation period!!
lifelessonsfrommem
Jul 4, 20255 min read
“Alexa, When Do Adult Children Finally Move Out?”
How come no one ever talked about parenting adult children as a parenting phase?
lifelessonsfrommem
Mar 21, 20256 min read
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