Mandy Lange

Bio

Mandy Lange is a runner, teacher, mother, and movie-quoter. Her writing can be found on Scary Mommy, Edutopia, her blogs The Amateur Mom and Rise and Rove, and the back of credit card offers that come in the mail. She lives in Michigan where she is always too cold.

Mandy Lange Articles

4 Children's Book Characters Who Would Make Better Presidents Than Our Current Nominees

Instead of waiting around for someone with questionable morals and a lukewarm personality to take over our country’s leadership, it seems more beneficial to apply our lofty presidential idealism to characters we can actually count on. I long to amend the ridiculous process of modern American democracy by nominating candidates who closely resemble the following characters within my family’s most beloved children’s books.

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