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Life Lessons From Memaw


Us versus Them
Are the new ways or the old ways better? Neither. What's better is to keep learning ALL the ways to be a smarter person.
lifelessonsfrommem
19 hours ago9 min read


Mailbag About Upcoming Parent/Teacher Conferences
Brace yourself. Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming!
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 94 min read


There’s a Yellow Rose in Texas That I am Gonna See
One student shouldn't be allowed to hold everyone else back from moving forward.
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 27 min read


“I Am Your Father”
What if failing is not our fault? Can we still succeed or do we give up? Living without failing is failing to live.
lifelessonsfrommem
Sep 114 min read


"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


A Brand New School Year
A brand new school year brings lots of joy but it also can bring some frustration to teachers.
lifelessonsfrommem
Aug 65 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


"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
"Boy, I don't know everything. Maybe the younguns have something to teach me."
lifelessonsfrommem
Jan 25 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


"What if this is as good as it gets?"
Being happy goes against our nature. Maybe that is one reason it is very difficult to obtain happiness.
lifelessonsfrommem
Nov 21, 20256 min read


"Sisters, All Hallow's Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!"
Stop judging, stop expecting, and pass out the damn candy.
lifelessonsfrommem
Oct 24, 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


How Can I Get Brain Rot?
Yup, we actually do want to have Brain Rot!
lifelessonsfrommem
Aug 8, 20253 min read


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