So is the title of the book Chloe is holding in today’s photo, taken during the birthday weekend we spent with her in Canada two weeks ago. Now before you go thinking this was a gift from Melinda, let me set the record straight. This was a gift from Brenda, Melinda’s sister. Yeah, maybe they have some secret agreement to make sure they support each others’ parenting or something. But I don’t want you thinking that Melinda gave the book to Chloe. Directly, that is.
At the Amazon link for the book I found an example of how one’s mother might be right. See what you think:
Q: How can I keep a friendship platonic? A: Give him advice, especially about the way he drives.
Does that mean Melinda wants our relationship to be platonic?
Well, the subtitle is, “All the Great Advice You Tried to Forget.”
Today’s Prompt: What’s the best advice you received from your mother?
Andy Smallman 
My mother is ALWAYS right. Seriously. It’s uncanny. But that’s okay, because since becoming a mother myself I developed those superpowers too 😉
The best advice she ever gave me “this is not going to end well”. And so far she has never been wrong.
How about the worst advice… my mother said, You’ll never have a clean house because you always have your nose stuck in a book!” Guess what? I wish she had been wrong. I learned from her example to keep my house clean – perhaps compulsively so as my son keeps telling me! Despite that, to this day, I do ALWAYS have my nose stuck in a book!!! I love it!