Comments on: Advice from Mom, Part II

By: jodimichelle

jodimichelle — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:22:21 +0000

I made a list, inspired by you – http://www.jodimichelle.com/archives/2008/10/08/heed_this_advice_from_your_father/

The advice is from my dad or step dad and my fav is – “Don’t tell your mother about this.”

Love the inspiration! Thank you

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:29:22 +0000

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:34:00 +0000

You can’t change people, but you might be able to change how they VOTE!

Here’s a little something for you’re Canadian readers: anyonebutharper.ca

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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:26:26 +0000

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By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:54:57 +0000

Never assume that you will always have a man to look after you. Know that you may some day have to support yourself and your children on your own. Also, not everyone you meet in life is going to like you. Sometimes you’ll know why, and sometimes you won’t, but it will happen.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:53:29 +0000

Of course, this is the same woman who told me when your sister and I were both teens and your sister was blossoming into womanhood, “Aren’t you sorry that you two are cousins?”

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:24:21 +0000

My mom’s mantra:

Never hit anyone first. But if they hit you, pummel ‘em.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:55:40 +0000

My mom too – insisted I take typing in SUMMER SCHOOL. I was in the 8th grade and outraged because I was going to have a job where I wouldn’t NEED to type. ::visual of pages flying off a calendar… lots of pages:: Time passes and I am now doing information and data management and can type 85wpm net. This was yeeeears before computers. Who knew? Thanks, Mom! (Yes, I’ve told her that. More than once.)

When I asked for a nose job: “You’re too young (7th grade). Your face is going through changes. If you still want one when you’re 21, we’ll talk about it.” It did, and I didn’t, so we never.

“For God’s sake at least wear some mascara.”

“When a lady eats soup, she moves the spoon away from her in the bowl, not toward her.”

“When a man opens a door for you, always say thank you.”

When I was 6 and asked her when mommies and daddies do what they do that sometimes makes a baby: “When they love each other very very much.” I didn’t realize till many years later that she hadn’t mentioned marriage. Ahead of her time in some ways, my mom.

“Sit/stand up straight.”

A few days before my wedding: “You know that thing about not going to bed angry? That’s nuts.”

“When presented with food someone else is paying for, never say, ‘I don’t like that’. Be genteel and say, ‘Thank you, I don’t care for any just now.’”

By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:11:12 +0000

Learn to type. You can always be a secretary.

My Mom, too! And here I sit, typing. Sigh.

By: sethonious

sethonious — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:43:58 +0000

From mom: Don’t tuck your t-shirt into your underwear

From Grandfather : Fake it till you make it

From Father in law: Booze is OK, party it up. Pot makes you lazy, and everything else is just too fucked up.

And as far as evacuating the house for the thermometer (#31) here is a good video to illustrate why mercury is bad…
http://wbgustream.bgsu.edu/bgsu/epa/index-fl.html