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My Mom is meaner than your Mom!

February 25, 2010 Character, Children, Education, Family, Forgiveness, Friendship, Happiness, Health, Holiday, Lessons, Life, Love, Memories, Mother, Mother's Day Comments Off on My Mom is meaner than your Mom!

-- written in 1967 by Bobbie Pingaro

Was your Mom mean?

I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the whole world!

While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, eggs, and toast. When others had a soda and pizza for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too.

These Things I Wish For You

February 2, 2010 Brother, Character, Children, Christmas, Education, Education, Enjoyment, Family, Friendship, Grandparents, Happiness, Health, Holiday, Humor, Kindness, Lessons, Life, Love, Memories, Mother, Motivational, Perseverance Comments Off on These Things I Wish For You

This essay is attributed to Paul Harvey, as it has circled the Internet for some time now. But Paul Harvey did not write it. The true author, Lee Pitts, published the nostalgic essay in 2000 in the book "Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul." Paul Harvey does use material written by Lee Pitts from time to time, and he did read this particular essay (crediting Pitts, of course) during his September 6, 1997 broadcast.

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By Lee Pitts

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse.