{"id":2394,"date":"2011-12-27T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:33:24","slug":"whats-a-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/12\/whats-a-meme.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s a Meme?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When my son has a birthday, it\u2019s his custom, to exploit it for all it was worth.\u00a0 When he was twelve he said, “It’s a big one, Ma! Have you looked at the calendar? Huh? It’s 10-10-10.<\/em>” Pause. “Can I stay up late?<\/em>” He said he was following an important thread on his favorite forum. “There’s a meme in the making!<\/em>” he exclaimed.<\/p>\n

Oh, well, if it’s a meme in the… Wait. What? We used to call them clich\u00e9s, but now, if an idea or saying is made famous via the Internet, it’s referred to as a “meme.”<\/p>\n

Moms and memes. They don’t really go together, now do they? Why do our kids know so much more about technology? I’m stymied by something as primitive as putting together a drying rack to hang clothes on; I asked my son to help, and voil\u00e1, he had it done in minutes.<\/p>\n

Do we lose that part of our – pardon the pun – mental motherboards as we get older? Did we never have it? Perhaps it only comes standard with younger-model brains.<\/p>\n

In marketing, the phrase is, “Create your own brand.” Perhaps we need to create our own “Mom – memes” instead. With everyone on YouTube and videos going viral, maybe we can follow the lead of the younger generation and try to distill all of our unheeded parental lectures into a two-minute clip.<\/p>\n

What if you had to sum up the key to life in four words or less? Would it be possible to encapsulate epiphanies in a small swatch?<\/p>\n

Take a look at some of these “Mom – Memes” and make up your own!<\/p>\n

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