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Are Our Children Really Overprotected? I Think They Are.

July 24, 2011 – 10:50 pm

Mamacita says: Are we protecting our children too much? Everything is so bland, so effortless, so sanitary, so entitled, so sterilized, so soft, so completely without risk, requiring little or no talent or skill, so full of self-esteem and so lacking in merit, that it is little wonder so many of our young adults wouldn’t [...]

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Back Off – Your Kids Don’t Need An Adult Best Friend

May 27, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: I can remember being really little, and I can remember my parents playing with me. (Those are my parents; aren’t they pretty?) They played with me whenever they could, but it wasn’t very often. I can remember Mom sitting on the floor, playing paper dolls with us, and showing us how to dress [...]

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Rules Kids Won’t Learn In School

April 21, 2011 – 12:08 am

Oh, I know, I know; this list is everywhere and you’ve all seen it a zillion times. Well, make that a zillion and one. For some reason, it just hit me in a good place today. == Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School Rule #1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average [...]

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"I Base Most Of My Fashion Sense on What Doesn’t Itch"

February 27, 2011 – 3:33 pm

Mamacita says: I’d like to tell you that my fashion sense has improved since I wrote this post so long ago, but even though I’ve awoken somewhat to what people are wearing these days, I’m still a flat-out C minus in fashion awareness. Fair warning: I have no sense of taste when it comes to [...]

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Center of the Universe, You Say? I Think Not.

February 24, 2011 – 9:48 pm

Mamacita says: All my life I have loathed the expression, “Act your age.” Even as a child I wondered how a person could ‘act’ an age; the best I could ever do was to ‘be’ an age. “Act” always connoted phoniness to me. I totally agree with the little girl in this joke. How can [...]

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There Are All Kinds of Enslavement

February 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Mamacita says: I posted this in 2006, but I’ve been thinking about this same thing all day so here it is again. My blog, my rules. Here’s the post: Is anyone else out there lucky enough to have a job that makes you so happy that all you have to do is walk into the [...]

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Elevator Etiquette 101

February 18, 2011 – 1:55 am

Mamacita says: These are, of course, Things Nice People Already Know. Basic Elevator Etiquette for Dummies: 1. Push the appropriate button. If the button is already glowing, do not push it. If you repeatedly push an already-glowing button, everybody will know what you are. 2. Stand back. LEAVE ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO EMERGE FROM THE [...]

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Things I Still Haven’t Done Yet

February 11, 2011 – 10:02 pm

Mamacita says: what’s the hurry, anyway? 1. I have never used an ATM machine. I have a feeling it would be the beginning of a bad personal habit. 2. I still have never watched a single Survivor-type show. Still not interested. 3. Ditto for Oprah, and even less interested. 4. The Christmas wreath is probably [...]

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Too Much Discussion Makes Me Think, and We Can’t Have That!

February 6, 2011 – 12:10 am

This post is dedicated to Bitchie Lou, a student from a few years ago whose babyish behavior, constant whining, and terrible manners have earned her the title of “Worst Student I’ve Ever Had, So Far.” This is not a title I want to ever have to bestow again, so don’t get any ideas, students dear. [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Imagination

January 22, 2011 – 1:42 am

A lot of Saturdays have come and gone lately without Quotation Saturday. How have we managed to cope, I ask you all. . . . Since I stand firmly with Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” this Saturday’s theme is “imagination.” Take the word apart. Do you see it? IMAGE. People with imagination [...]