"Mr. Knowles' Last Math Lesson
...on a Stamp!(?)"
...the truth revealed...
Little-Known Facts
Whereas previous studies have always shown Alpha-Male Type Personalities to predominate in the results of population statistics, a de facto uprising of pandemic proportions has been gaining momentum such that scientific data is deemed archival material even as it is published.
This new “BETA” Type Personality, has wielded parallel though insidious clout in keeping secure Global Food Provision, Homeland Security and Nurturing-without-Borders, and thus ensuring the propagation of the human species, increased viability of human progeny, and maintaining all-round “lube-oil-and-filter” checkups for the ongoing genesis and up-leveling of socio-cultural development.
This underground movement has been common knowledge amongst themselves. Their mandate, "The K.I.S.S. Policy" aka "Keep It Simple, Smart-guy, is no secret but is “An Understood” so simplistic and universal that it fits – you got it – on a single Postage Stamp.
I suppose Mr. Knowles, educator that he is, felt responsible in role-modeling officially these 35 years, and unofficially God-knows-how-long. We could put a timeline on it and marker the movement with his birth-date, November 29 1948, at exactly 12:03 UT, the same in local time in Tyne and Wear, South Shields, Greenwich Mean Time.
This “BETA-movement” would from then on be in PP time (Post-Peter) just for the sake of convenience.
In actual fact, Erma Bombeck coined the job description when Beta Personality Types were, by default, still marginalized and even deemed lunatic fringe. She wrote a book about it back in 1987, called: “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”.
There is a tribute - with plenty of quotes - to Erma, American humorist and syndicated columnist and Mom of three children,on Lady Fatima's Blog on Yahoo! 360°.
Lady Fatima blog on Wordpress.com is designed to relate the truths and wisdom Beta-types can now pioneer under the Rights of "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of the Press" without being demonized, kept chattel and fed through a mail-deposit slot, or publicly sacrificed, burned at the stake or hung off trees or crosses.
Maybe, when your children have children, they will celebrate Beta-types whose job description was dubbed, "The Second Oldest Profession" every day of the year and not just on Mother's Day in Industrial Countries.
And, just maybe, the generation after that will learn to care and feed the Beta-types – care-providers, teachers, nurses, volunteer workers and Mom-people – even those who are not card-carrying Biological Propagators of the Species.
In the meantime, this CARE Package in a website is meant to teach self-care and personal boundary maintenance, i.e., my love-ability has human limits, that Beta-types might seek refuge and gather in an online interactive community and keep watch that their Beta-mates no longer get lost in a swamp of comprehension books, laundry, medication-dispensing schedules and say no to triple-shift work and say “Yes” to sleep-time before the onset of sleep-deprivation induced hallucinations, feeding and watering before bloating sets in from malnutrition and they are deemed “obese”.
All I can say, as Mr. Knowles' personal "kids love-letter and staff-photo" archivist:
"You're a sly one, Mr. Knowles. A man-teacher of little-people for 35 years is like being a mom whose children never grow up. in a word,
"A-a-a-W-G-G-H-H!!!"
French translation: "Toujours, le deluge!"
NOTA BENE
When you look at the retirement photos you will not the stark difference in appearance between Peter, who looks like he never got over post-partum depression, and his buff, in-the-pink retired colleagues.
TIP
To the Beta-Job greenbacks, Fern and Sandra, our photojournalist cum teachers cum gawdknowswhatelse bulletin-boards, laminating, nose-wiping you don't wanna know...
"Be Afraid,
Be Very Afraid
...of LOVING TOO MUCH!!!"
If you are knitting mittens for every girl and boy in your class for their Christmas loot-bag you need to consider yourself "In Distress", "taken a long walk off a short pier" "Psyche-Ward Material. Seek help, check yourself into a Rehab Clinic, or preferably, hook up to our drop-in website for an emergency CARE Package of pajamas, a pair of fluffies and a place stocked with chicken soup a kitchen table and a koffee klatsch that's equipped for rants, sobs and belly laughs.
1 RULE: Keep the Beta-talk offline. No war-stories of a diaper-rash nature allowed, ever.
MANDATE: You already know it if you heard Mr. Knowles Math Lesson. It's on the back of the Postage Stamp, remember? K.I.S.S.
"Thank-you for that lesson, Mr. Knowles - it may have been your last 'officia' lesson, but it was a GOODIE."
