Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening (Funny College or High School Graduation Gift for Daughter from Mom)

Loved gifting this to my daughter. Great advice and nice to have it all being said from someone else.❤️

Favorite Advice But what you cannot find on the internet is your mother’s voiceThere’s nothing WORSE than a smart GIRL who acts dumb. It’s worse than a dumb girl.MAKE something EVERY DAY.Make a meal or a joke or a scarf or a poem. Make a notecard or a paper doll or a dress for yourself. Make a face or a friend or a Facebook friend. Creating is your birthright, and celebrating your creativity reminds you of your unique place in the world.FAKE It ’tIL YOU MAKE It.GIVE MONEY OR help to whomever you think needs it. Don’t spend too much time agonizing over whether your gift to the begging woman on the corner will be spent on a bottle for a baby or a bottle for her. The decision to give is a decision between you and God. What she does with it is between her and God.Sweet secrets are winks between you and God and remind you of your pure goodness and strength.Don’t put OFF starting somethingBecause YOU aren’t SURE YOU canFinish It. If you get the urge to begin something – an article, a social movement, a letter to your mom – goes ahead and starts it. The creative energy is strongest at the inception of the idea, and when you get momentum going, you might just find the time and resources to take it all the way.Only one thing is sure to keep you from finishing it: Not starting.When YOU’RE happy, Tell YOUR face about It. When you’re not, don’t let your face be your tell.Choose YOUR battles., the fewer the better. Life is not war.The quality OF YOUR FRIENDS can DEFINE the quality OF YOUR LIFE.Remember, however, to be AFRAIDOF the truly scary things: of losing your curiosity, of bruising your hope, and of developing bunions, which will severely limit your footwear choices.What a great little book! I've already told my daughter, friend, and sister in law some of the advice Becky tells you about.As a mom we want the best for our kids and this book covers so much. Funny or serious, there are so many words of wisdom in this book.This is the perfect gift for anyone with a child, best friend, sister, or even mother, especially a new mother. I would have loved to have this book when my daughter was a baby, it would have been a good book to look at when my daughter had a problem and I needed an answer that would really impact her enough to remember.It's a feel good book that made me smile!I would recommend this book to anyone who has a woman in their life.FIVE ADVICE FAIRIES

My daughter is one of the many 2020 high school seniors that are dealing with a sad, disrupted senior year in which COVID-19 caused an abrupt end to her final high school year during spring break, but also has canceled (hopefully only delayed) her commencement graduation ceremony. After missing prom, time with friends she’s been to school with for years before everyone parts on different journeys, and spending months holed up in quarantine, we are determined to celebrate her graduation this weekend at home. She worked so hard for so many years and she has graduated, no matter the circumstances or lack of ceremony. The beautiful, large plaque case we got her to house and display her diploma, portrait, and tassel will only make this more sad if we give it to her empty while they decide wether or not students will be allowed to have a ceremony in August. She has a great attitude and sense of humor, and it’s been tough to see her quiet tears over the loss of what so many of us cherish in our memories of our high school senior years. So, in looking for something to give her to cheer her up and celebrate her graduation at home, I found this little gem of a book. I wish I’d gotten something like this from my mom at graduation! It is no-nonsense, sound advice with heart and plenty of humor that any 17-18 year old girl (it doesn’t really fit males) can relate to. It is exactly the advice I would love to giver her, but naturally as her mother, she would only pretend to listen if it came from me. Every mom should give this to their daughter at graduation.

I had this book sent to my granddaughter for a high school graduation gift. I explained, to my daughter, that the title of the book might sound "harsh" but that it's advice given in a "perspective of a mother to daughter", and in this case "grandmother to granddaughter"...(I didn't want my daughter thinking it was a "threatening book"...LOL) Anyway, my granddaughter loves it and I think my daughter is glad that the book is taking on areas she has not dwelled into with her daughter...since I think of myself as the humorous (but strict) grandmother I tease my daughter to send me my granddaughter so I can make sure she has learned to do things most girls do not realize they need to do "on their own" when they leave home...So glad I put some real life experience, in book form, to my granddaughter, to help her out in life in a way I wished I had given to my own daughters before they left to go out on their own. I would surely give this book a 20+ on a scale of 1 (being lowest) to 10 (being highest rating)!!!

Great messages for my college daughter!

I showed this to my daughters and I thought it was hilarious. So I got one for my granddaughter and for her best friend who are both graduating from high school. They loved them! They are full of very good advice that also humorous so it makes easy reading. Good life lessons! When I read this I wished I would have known a lot of this when I was a teen

I gave this book to our nieces as part of their high school graduation gift and it's beautiful! The colorful pictures throughout to go along with the great advice are amazing! I loved being able to write my own notes at the end for a person touch too! Wonderful book and gift!

This is a wonderful graduation gift to give a girl who is going off to college. It is full of practical advice but it’s funny too. I like to give it with the laundry basket laundry detergent and fabric softener.

Good Book

Love this book. Little words of wisdom from a great mother with a good sense of humour.

Great book, my friend wants one for her daughter after I showed her. It was fun adding my own comments & sharing advice. Kids thought it was a great gift

Purchased for a graduation gift. Nice little book. More references to the US than Canada but still some good advice that is universal.

Bought item as a gift but it was used... inscription in the inside page. A recycled book.