Mary Poppins

My parents have given me wonderfully sage pieces of advice like, "Never be a teacher" and "Do as I say not as I do" from my mom and dad respectively. My grandma's coaster has told me often that "well behaved women rarely make history". And while I take this nuggets of advice into consideration often, my favorite price of advice came from the fabulous Mary Poppins. For about my entire third year if life I can home from preschool and begged my parents to watch the video and they relented just under half of the time. That means a good quarter of a year. And that's how my best piece of advice was drilled into me masked under the guise of a catchy tune. "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Who. Knew. Sometimes that literally means getting a piece of cake to go along with a night of studying. While other times that means getting to watch Downton Abbey because I cleaned the upstairs. Sometimes, oftentimes, it is used as bribery but ya know, whatever works. Basically it means that there is always something great to go along with something awful. Like medicine. Or homework. Mary Poppins can always instill a little knowledge into your life, so next time you need some advice make some popcorn and pop your old copy into the VCR.