Grandmother Wisdom Are
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Grandmother Wisdom is a Mother’s wisdom getting better, clearer, and more useful over time.
Grandmother Wisdom is the concentrated wisdom gained over a lifetime and shared by a 90 year old Grandmother who reveals her suggestions for a happy, no-regrets life.
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She could be your Grandmother or mine. For today, let us call her our universal Grandmother; everyone’s Grandmother. What she brings is her Grandmother Wisdom about how to live a fulfilled and happy life.
In a section dedicated to Parenting Fun, it seems appropriate to illustrate her Grandmother Wisdom which will help us parents to have more guideposts on our own quest for happiness and contentment.
The reasoning is quite simple: A happy parent is a better parent, and happy parents are much more likely to raise happy children, and that in a nutshell is the purpose, mission, and Vision of this Parenting Action Guide Website.
Her actual name is Regina Brett, 90 years old, from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. You may have seen her Grandmother Wisdom on the internet before, but for those of you who haven’t, it is well worth reading about it here.
Like Good Parenting Skills, her suggestions ring true when you read them. Yet unlike Surrogate Parenting, nobody else can do these items for you.
It is up to us as people and as parents to accept this Parenting Advice, this life advice, and use it to find more of the joy and happiness of life for ourselves. We will then have more joy and happiness to share with our children, our families, and all we come in contact with.
That is how we learn to discover the Parenting Magic, the Parenting Fun, and the wonder of life that is all around us, just waiting for us to discover it for ourselves and to share it with our children.
I thank Regina Brett for her 45 suggestions that make up her Grandmother Wisdom, and you will be thankful also once you have read it for yourself.
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick.
Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch
5. Pay off your credit cards every month
6. You don’t have time to win every argument. Agree to disagree
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone
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8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry
13. Don’t compare your life to others.
You have no idea what their journey is all about
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye.
But don’t worry; God never blinks
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful, or joyful
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
But the second one is up to you and no one else
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life,
don’t take 'No' for an answer
21. Burn the candle, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow
23. Be eccentric now.
Don’t wait for old age to wear purple
24. The most important sex organ is the brain
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life
28. Forgive everyone everything
29. What other people think of you is none of your business
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is,
it will change
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
No one else does
33. Believe in miracles
34. God loves you because of who God is,
not because of anything you did or didn’t do
35. Don’t audit life.
Show up and make the most of it now
36. Growing old beats the alternative - -
dying young
37. Your children get only one childhood
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,
we’d grab ours back
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need
42. The best is yet to come . . .
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up
44. Yield
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift
There is a lot more parenting wisdom to share. Here is another Grandmother Wisdom thought: If you can instill just a few truths of life into your children’s minds and hearts, can help them learn and live principles of joy and decency on a daily basis, then you have been the parent who helps their children know the beauty and potential of a life well-lived at any time, for any reason, over and over again.
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