Life is not fair, but so what? There is nothing that can be done to eliminate the unfairness, yet there are plenty that can be done to thrive and prosper in spite of it, and even because of it.

Charles J. Sykes’s words of wisdom are honest, at times harsh, and often hilarious advice: about what most children will encounter in the “real world” post-schooling and how parents can help them best prepare with honest challenges. Not all of them have to do with academics, like:

Rule No. 1

Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase, “It’s not fair” 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2

The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3

Sorry, you won’t make $60,000 a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he’s not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents had a different word of burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren’t embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6

It’s not your parents’ fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of “It’s my life,” and “You’re not the boss of me,” and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it’s on your dime. Don’t whine about it, or you’ll sound like a baby boomer.

Rule No. 7

Before you were born your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8

Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn’t. In some schools, they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone’s feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)

Rule No. 9

Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we’re at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10

Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule No. 11

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Rule No. 12

Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you’re out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That’s what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for “expressing yourself” with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13

You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven’t seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14

Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school’s a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you’ll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You’re welcome.

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One very important thing you can do is to dream, and use the power of those dreams to triumph even in the face of all the unfairness and the challenges. Good Luck!

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According to the best information I could find, “cough CPR” is a real procedure occasionally used in emergency situations under medical supervision.

Cough CPR raises the pressure in the chest just enough to maintain some circulation of oxygen-containing blood and help enough get to the brain to maintain consciousness for a prolonged period. But, cough CPR should be used only by a person about to lose consciousness, which is an indication of cardiac arrest. However, the procedure is not effective in all patients. The procedure can be dangerous for someone having a heart attack that does not result in cardiac arrest. Even when someone correctly recognize he is experiencing the sort of cardiac event where cough CPR could help, without specific training to hit the right rhythms the coughing could turn mild heart attacks into fatal ones.

In other words, the procedure is just far too risky for a layman to attempt alone. This is one case where a nugget of truth and wisdom have been misrepresented and misunderstood to the public at large, though not intentionally.

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It’s plain funny and effective so, I thought it would make a wonderful post.

Telemarketing calls are often considered a nuisance, as their sole purpose is to get you to make a purchase. However indirectly this fact may present itself, the several-minute spiel provided by a determined telemarketer almost always ends with requesting your agreement to buy something. Telling them that you are not interested in their products often would not help you escape the conversation.

Instead, if you feel like having some fun, consider a more playful approach. You can deal with a telemarketer with humor, which can help take some of the stress away from receiving their calls.

There are three simple ways to put an end to these interruptions on your telephone line.

Three Little Words That Work!!

(1) The three little words are: ‘Hold On, Please……..’

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately), go back to your work, would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s ‘beep-beep-beep’ tone, you know it is time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. If he calls back, do this repeatedly until he decides it is no longer worth his time to harass you.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Put Some Humor In It

If you do not want to set your phone down because it will prevent other calls from coming through, and if you would rather take a lighthearted and amusing approach to the calls, try having fun with it.

When the telemarketer calls, ask her to spell out her company’s name before she talks to you about the product or service she is selling. Ask her to hold while you look the company up on the computer. When she asks if you have heard of her company’s product, tell her that you have. In fact, your Aunt Martha used it and well……… be creative, fill in the blanks, make it up as you go along. If the telemarketer asks how your day was, tell him that you are so glad he asked, you really needed someone to talk to today and this is perfect timing. Proceed to share your story and ask him for advice. Surely, his supervisor will not approve of the personal conversation and the telemarketer will not look forward to dialing your number again.

The chances are, you will be removed from that list.

(3) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a ‘real’ sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.

Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!

You get the idea !!

If you follow these tips, I believe it will work.

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