Mamacita says: Most teens are far nobler and kind than the media would have us believe. The creeps, jerks, and bullies are the minority. I wish this minority didn’t get so much publicity. I know! Let’s give the majority of our attention, time, and money to the nice kids! What a novel thought. The lowest [...]
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Mamacita says: I teach in a community college, and I have found that my hardest-working students are, for the most part, the older ones, the ones who have been out of school for many years, the ones who have been busy out in the workforce, or raising children. Now, for one reason or another, they’ve [...]
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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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Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. You’ve Got To Be Taught You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught from year to year, It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of People whose eyes are [...]
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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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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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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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February 4, 2011 – 9:11 pm
Mamacita says: I was reading an article somewhere, by somebody*, that stated that no matter how old we get, there are still times when we want our mother. Our fifty-year-old mother. When our mothers are young, we don’t consider them ‘friends.’ We don’t consider them young, either, because when we’re very young, all adults are [...]
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January 26, 2011 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: When it comes to education, I can be quite opinionated. No, really. I’ll debate with you about all things educational, and you might as well be prepared to back down at least a little bit because I probably won’t. Not unless you’ve got a shiPload of experience to back yourself up. Families that [...]
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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 [...]
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