Who you are in elementary school/middle school/high school/college is NOT who you will be for the rest of your life. Sometimes transferring to a new school-being the new kid-is the best thing that could ever happen to you. Be the person you were never allowed to be. 

Learn how to take care of your own stuff. You could pay thousands of dollars for time and parts or go buy and install the parts yourself. Fixing your own problems might take a while but at the end of the day you’ll have more green in your pocket and a better feeling of self-worth.

Babies, when someone makes you feel odd or uncomfortable, tell mama. No matter what.

No matter the concentration of pot smoke in the air, if it’s near you, it can get into your system and show up in a blood test. THEREFORE, either don’t do pot (it smells really nasty) or drink a lot of cranberry juice afterwards. Forewarning: you are predisposed to get really sick when you consume cranberry of any kind.

Parents aren’t always telling you things to keep you from having fun. They were your age once too. They remember what it’s like.

The best tasting pop? It has real cane sugar. The best pop for you? There.. isn’t one? Flat lemon/lime stuff for when you’re sick is about where it ends.

Good posture might be annoying, but it will keep you straight-backed when your friends begin to permanently schlump.

If something tells you that it is too good to be true, it probably is.

You’re supposed to trust figures of authority, but when you don’t have time to research you just have to trust your instincts and always carry some sort of protection—like a whistle or really sharp fingernails.

If you drop anything electronic into water, stick it in a bowl of rice so it is completely submerged. The rice will extract the moisture and save the machine.