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Ten Things I Still Haven’t Done Yet

October 10, 2011 – 7:27 pm

Mamacita says: Here are Ten Things I Haven’t Done Yet.  Still.  At this point, why hurry? 1.  I still haven’t ever used an ATM machine.  Someone told me you had to put money in there to get money out.  Well, that lets me out of that one. 2.  Oprah’s off the air now, so my [...]

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Not To Mince Words: Some Parents Are Scum

October 10, 2011 – 3:42 am

Mamacita says:  I used to look at my young students every day and wonder what they went home to every night. Sometimes I did know, and my heart broke for them daily. With others, I had no idea. When a child comes to school in rags, shoes held together with tape and rubber bands, it’s [...]

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Wherein I Mourn the Death of Common Sense, and Admit to my Fogeyness

September 29, 2011 – 7:45 pm

Mamacita says:  I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse,  am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute.  It doesn’t seem as though they’re doing it accidentally, or against their will, either; it seems as if they’re happy being ignorant  [...]

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Helicopter Parents of College Students? You’ve GOT To Be Kidding!

August 16, 2011 – 9:57 pm

Dear Helicopter Parents of College Students: Your kid is raised. Stop raising him. If he’s still an immature weenie, let life hand him/her some consequences. It’s about time somebody did. Love, Professor MeanJane P.S. Your kid is nineteen years old and still can’t remember to bring a pencil to school. And no, he can’t borrow [...]

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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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Good Teaching Is Like Good Stand-Up.

July 18, 2011 – 3:20 am

Mamacita says:  I love children, and I love students of all ages, and I love teaching, and I love genuine education in all of its 6-degrees-of-separation wonder. Everything is connected – everything in the known and unknown universe is connected. Nothing exists only within the four walls of a classroom. It often happens – I [...]

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Teachers and The Knack

July 12, 2011 – 1:20 am

Mamacita says: There is a knack to teaching middle and high school students that some teachers never quite learn. I’m not sure it can be learned; it might be an art, a talent one must have at birth. For want of knowledge of this art’s actual name, I will call it ‘the knack.’ I have [...]

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Potty Mouth, Wiggly Little Boys, Recess, and Reading

June 27, 2011 – 12:05 am

“No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.” Mamacita says:  That’s a quotation; that’s not me saying “damn,” although I frequently occasionally do. I am, to my shame, greatly afflicted with “potty mouth,” and although I managed to control it somewhat while my children were tiny,  it’s back, in [...]

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Speeders, Texters, and Other Potential Highway Murderers

June 25, 2011 – 4:07 pm

Mamacita says:  All right, already, I’ll drive a little faster. Sheesh. But I know good and well who’s going to get pulled over, even with all the other drivers in the world going around me at a hundred miles an hour. Everybody I know has a leadfoot except for me. Sometimes I think the anecdotes [...]

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It’s Not My Fault. Pay Me.

June 14, 2011 – 12:19 am

Mamacita says:  I first saw this cartoon a few years ago when I was thin and I thought it was funny. Of course, I didn’t know then that it wasn’t a cartoon at all, but an actual documented photo of evil recurring entities, plotting to destroy the self-esteem of a lady who looks a lot [...]

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