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All done with cleaning one bookcase of papers and books. It was like Christmas as I found many papers written during the 8 years. Still looking for 2 big papers I wrote on the Trail of Tears of the Cherokee Indians in the 1800's. One more to clean and Hubby can add to the wood stove. One bag in and 3 more ready to go. I found an interesting article and want to share it with you. I feel it still applies today and feel free to read it to your children.

TEN RULES OF LIFE YOU WON'T LEARN IN SCHOOL
1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average young person used the phrase: "It's not fair;" 86 times a day.

2. The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as your school does. This may come as a shock.

3. Sorry, you won't make $50,000.00 a year right out of college. You won't be vice-president, or have a car phone either. (a little out dated) You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a designer label.

4. If you think your professor is tough, wait until you get a boss.

5. Flipping burgers or doing any other honest work is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different work for burger flipping. They called it "opportunity."

6. It's not your parent's fault if you mess-up. Your are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life" and "You're not my boss."

7. Before you were born, your parents were not boring. They got that way paying your bills and listening to you.

8. Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off-not even a spring or fall break. Your are expected to show-up everyday for at least 8 hours and you don't get a new life every 16 weeks.

9. Smoking does not make you cool. Watch an 11-year-old with a cigarette butt in his/her mouth. This is what you look like to an older adult.

10. Your school may be "out-come based", but life isn't. In some schools, you're given as many times as you want to get the answer right. Standards are set low enough so everyone can meet them. This of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real-life-as you will find our.

Good luck. You are going to need it-and the harder you work, the luckier you will get.
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