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  • What I Know For Sure: 3.26.10

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    FOREVER YOUNG (RIP Nigel Ellison)

    by Tiphani N. Montgomery

     

    Our children are dying.

    They aren’t graduating from high school, they’re being buried six feet under.

    They aren’t building families, they’re building deaths counts. Prison sentences are no longer a punishment, yet a lifestyle that is foolishly looked forward to.

    Expected. A badge of honor.

    Whose fault is it?

    Mine. Yours. Ours.

    While you’re sitting in your homes, your churches, your businesses. While you spend time with your friends and hug your family, our children are dying.

    Being massacred.

    Slayed. By each other.

    We ARE failing them.

    We HAVE failed them.

    We have failed them by thinking that just because they’re not our children, they are not our responsibility.

    By labeling them menaces to society.

    By giving up on them and telling them to make it on their own.

    We have failed them by not affirming them.

    By not letting them know that they’re more than conquers. That they are powerful and have the ability to save and change lives. Or maybe we cant teach them what we don’t think about ourselves.

    For you who live in the suburbs tucked away in your safe houses that you hide in..this is your problem!

    For you who live in the hood and have settled with the thought that nothing can be changed…this is your problem!

    For you young people who think this is just the way life is…this is your problem!

    A problem that can no longer be ignored.

    A problem that is causing the extinction of our youth.

    A problem, that if not handled, will bring this city to ruin.

    A city I have chosen to raise my daughter in.

    Blood has been stained on too many sidewalks, in too many homes.

    Gallons and gallons of baby blood.

    The devil has a strong hold on the minds of our children.

    Prayer is not enough.

    Faith is not enough.

    We have to take action.

    God has equipped us with the power to heal this city. Don’t let anymore blood be on our hands.

    Plant seeds of encouragement, love, expectation, dreams, and future into our children, in each other, and watch how we grow.

    Jay Z said he wanted to be forever young.

    Forever young is something Nigel should not have been.

     

    © 2010 www.TiphaniMontgomery.com

    Mar 26 2010 | What I Know For Sure #1 Essence Magazine Best Selling Author, Death, Forever Young, Jay Z, Menance to Society, Nigel Ellison, RIP, What I Know For Sure, Youth Violence
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    Recently Overheard…

    (Insert children laughing. Loud. Lots.)

    My Child (kinda VERY upset): Everyone is getting wedgies except for me! When is it going to be my turn?

    Random Girl (the wedgie queen): Give me a second…I’ll get you next.

    My Child: Yaaaaaaaaay!!!

    The Wedgie Queen: Ready?

    My Child (anxiously awaiting her turn to be violated): Yup!

    (Silence.)

    (Followed by intense sudden screaming)

    (Insert more children laughing. Loud. Lots.)

    My Child: OMG! These panties are hard to get out!! It’s like you were born to give wedgies. You should be like a professional wedgie giver or something (I’m sure that somewhere in the world, this was a compliment).

    There were so many things wrong with this scenario, but the one thing that disturbed me the most is how excited she was about the wedgie.

    Must.

    Re-evaluate.

    My.

    Parenting skills.

    ASAP!

     

    Befuddled,

    Tiph

    Mar 24 2010 | On Single Parenting Mommy Blogger, parenting skills, single parenting
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    UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH

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    If you think your boyfriend is cheating on you, he probably is.

    I have no advice on how to make him stop.

    Cause he won’t.

    And deep down inside, you already know this.

    Your cries for him to be faithful will fall on deaf ears and your complaints and constant demands for him to stop will be ignored. At this very moment, you have two very simple choices:

    To leave.

    Or to stay.

    Both are just as simple as they sound and not as complicated as most make them out to be.

    Leave.

    Or Stay.

    The choice is yours and you will most likely make the wrong one (it just is what it is.) #kanyeshrugs…but this post isn’t about the WRONG decision you’re going to make in regards to leaving or staying with the said “cheater.” This post is what NOT to do when you find the number of the woman he left you for.

     

    #1

    DON’T CALL HER

     

    Side Note: I hope that you didn’t go through his phone to find the number in the first place. The very moment that you felt the “urge” to do that, your “relationship” was over.

    Another Side Note: Boyfriend + No Peace of Mind = TORTURE

     

    But what I know for sure is that you are not suppose to be calling the “other woman” DEMANDING that she stop ALL communication with “your” boo and all because YOU said so! #blankstare

    Because YOU saying so doesn’t scare her and because she most likely NEVER knew YOU even existed.

    And because “your boo” is the one that YOU have beef with, not her.

    And because…well…that just makes YOU a LAME (and I call you a LAME with the best of intentions because, well, I’m just trying to help).

     

    #2

    IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO FOLLOW STEP #1…AT LEAST DON’T CALL HER PRIVATE AND “GO OFF!”

     

    Side Note: Ok, so believe it or not, I’m not allll the way against calling the alleged “other woman” to find out what’s going on.

    Thinking a little harder: Ok…maybe I am.

     

    But if you are going to disobey my orders and call her (or him…never know nowadays *side eye*) anyway, don’t hide yourself behind the safety of a private call and threaten her via cell phone.

    She’s not your enemy.

    And you playing on her phone is kinda wack (like, go play in the highway with a blind fold on, wack).

     

    Side Note: What’s worse than a cheating boyfriend is a stalker girlfriend who has become obsessed with his new love interest so much that she won’t leave her alone.

     

    Another Side Note: Some girlfriends become seriously obsessed…like, single white female obsessed, with “the other woman.” DON’T. LET. THAT. BE. YOU. (Because you’re too pretty for that *closes eyes to wish for the best*)

     

    #3

    AFTER YOU’VE MADE A SERIES OF SAD ATTEMPTS TO SCARE HER INTO LEAVING “YOUR BOYFRIEND” ALONE, ONLY TO REALIZE THAT IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK, DON’T CALL HER PHONE 50 TIMES IN A ROW AND JUST NOT SAY ANYTHING!

     

    Side Note: If I wasn’t working on becoming a better Christian, I would insert a bad word rigggghhhhhtttt (here) and (here) for this type of young lady. But the Jesus in me won’t. let. me. do. it. *sighs*…thank God for change!

     Do you just want to hear her voice on the other end of the phone to try and figure out what he sees in her? Or does misery love company and you want her to be as aggravated as you are with your current circumstances? Either way, your sanity is s…..l…..o……w……l………….y  melting away and you are (indeed) playing yourself. Sometimes what seems like the right thing to do, isn’t.

    Don’t call that woman’s phone anymore.

    She doesn’t owe you an explanation.

    She never has.

    He owes it to you.

    And if you still have no peace after he lays it on thick…move on.

    Because clearly, he already has.

     

    Until Jesus comes (and from what I hear, He will be here shortly),

    Tiph

    Mar 23 2010 | On Relationships cheating, obsession, On Relationships, stalker, the other woman
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    Here’s The Thing…

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    I am leery about blogging.

    Always have been.

    And I’m sure I always will be.

    I guess it’s just something about making it perfect that stopped me from posting every day. Because I’m imperfect in all that I do.

    And it shows.

    Daily.

    I couldn’t figure out what exactly to write (that anyone other than me would find absolutely hilarious) so I just didn’t (which made me feel lazy and pissed me off even more).

    I enjoy writing about relationships and then the sudden urge to write about the time I made a mistake and stuck my middle finger up at a kid who called my baby stupid…

     

    Side Note: My BFFs remind me (daily) that I live the kind of life that no one would believe unless around me…all the time (which is impossible considering the fact that I don’t necessarily like people) #kanyeshrugs

     

    I want to write about success and how to pursue your passion right after I vlog about how I feel about my hair. You see, my brain is different than most peoples.

    I’m special.

    Not special as in special(ed)ish special.

    Just special.

    As in gifted.

    Peculiar.

    And I have come to terms with letting my writing reflect that. No matter what anyone feels (because those people are the special(ed)ish ones). And when you’re as special as me, what the world has to say doesn’t matter anyway.

    So I’ll introduce myself to those who don’t know me and reintroduce myself to all who thought they did.

    My name is Tiphani Montgomery.

    I love to write.

    And I’m pretty good at it.

    I love to tell people what to do.

    Some call it “advice.”

    And I’m pretty good at that too.

    Most of the time I mind my own business.

    Which is rare.

    But a good balance.

    This blog reflects that.

    And I love it.

    Thanks.

     

    Because I said so!

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    Mar 22 2010 | On Blogging Best Selling Author, Blogging, Tiphani Montgomery
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