Check Your Sources

For the past three years, I’ve taught ELAR (English Language Arts and Reading).  One thing I always stress to my students when researching, writing, and citing sources is the importance of assessing their sources and differentiating reliable sources from...

Is your glass half EMPTY or half FULL?

My grandmother was 19-years-old when she had my mother, my mother was 19-years-old when she had me, and…yep, you guessed it, just 15 days after my nineteenth birthday, I gave birth to my oldest son. Many people refer to such as a generational curse.  However, I don’t...

Doing YOU vs. BEING you

When did “being you” go out of style?  For some reason, it is no longer cool to just BE yourself.  Instead, everyone is mesmerized by the whole “Do YOU” mantra.  We spend our time, energy, and certainly our money illuminating that person we want everyone to think we...

Mama Tameka is Blogging!

Hello World! Thank you for visiting my blog page.  I wholeheartedly love writing, but I love sharing my experiences and helping others even more.  For those of you who do not know me, I am a thirty-something year old wife, mother of three, and elementary...