Turning into your mother

Here are a few phrases that will let you know if you are turning into your mother.

"I'm not made of money"
"You could poke an eye out doing that!"
"Don't worry, dear, you have a great personality."

Ok, so what are some of the phrases YOU heard from your mother (growing up) that you now find coming out of your own mouth?

Sledder had a habit of getting me to blow my nose, then opening the kleenex, and saying "Look what was in your head!!"... LOL... I've done it back to her since I've grown up, and we both get a good laugh from it.

*giggle*
-Jennifer

"Watch what you're doing now"

"Be careful with that"

"Watch your step now" (At the stony beach)

"Don't do that until I'm there"

"Watch that please, and don't touch it till I come over!!!"
(jellyfish)

"Careful now"

Hey, my Son is now 13 years old, and I'm still s****ing myself whenever he gets into a situ., which I consider "dangerous", although it is just what I did at his age ....stupid Daddy?? .... I think maybe he should get a couple of knocks before I stop worrying if my Wee Boy is now my grown Son.

*Worried Daddy*

Wintermoor

Or what about "No.....that's all right, I'll do it....*sigh*"

"YOU ARE ON MY LAST NERVE!" Now that was always my favorite!

This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you.

Oh Ruth! My mother never said that, but it reminds me of something SO funny! Who knows what I had done to provoke my mother that time, but she hauled off and whopped me on the butt. When she did, she hit the inside of one of her knuckles on a rivet on my jeans. She started throwing a fit and sent me to my room. I fake cried and went up the hall, shut my door and sat in my room cracking up. The whole time she was complaining all I could think of was "This is going to hurt me worse than it hurts you". LOL She did have a nice bruised nerve in her finger. Let this be a lesson to those parents!

"One day your face is gonna freeze like that!"...
(and it did!)

I remember a finger shaking in my direction and behind it a voice saying " Whew, If I ever live to get you grown!"


What did I do? Really - what did I do?


The funniest memory of saying what you've been programmed with was when my son was about 4 years old. He was outside at my Mom's house playing by the doorsteps and discovered the box turtle that has lived there for years. He squealed with delight and we were giggling at him - until he reached down to "pet" it. My mom and I both screamed at the same time... " don't do that -if he bites you he won't let go until it thunders!"

There was no doubt from that day on - I was going to follow in those footsteps.

"Do you think money grows on trees?"
This was about every other sentence out of Mom's mouth.

"Someday you'll understand"
I think I do too.

"If you don't stop that, I'll throw it to timbucktoo!"
Usually a noisy toy and I've still not figured out where timbucktoo is.

One I used to use on my kids when they were younger is when they were fighting, I'd start singing the Barney song..."I love you, you love me, we're a happy family....." I hope they pass that one on to their kids. At first it stopped them dead in their tracts and they laughed, but as they got older, it just irritated them.

Shoe,

That explains everything.

Swoznick,

The turtle story is the funniest I have ever heard.

How much sense does this one make?
"If you want something to cry about, I'll give you something to cry about"

ACK Gwydion! I always hated that one! LOL

My best friends Dad used to say "And to think I wanted twins." He would twist his head from side to side with his face down and drawn expression on him. I used that a few times on my DS and his friends.

Well mom's favorites was:

I'm going to knock the tar out of you.
Or
I'm going to knock the fire out of you.

I've been know to use them once or twice now.

I managed to get something even better than words...I got "The Mother Look". You know what I mean,,,"That Look". As you're sitting in church with your friends, and you're Mom would just give you "The Look" and you knew you were in trouble. Well, I've got it. Just ask AngelSong. All it took was "The Look". LOL

want in one hand and sh** in the other n see which gets full first. (dad)

Morning my lil chickadeez

I luv you big as the sky

i hope you have a dozen just like YOU!!!

dont let the door hit you in the *butt* on the way out!

****Im not as ~mean~ as my parents:
So I dont have to say- I will roll your eyes up there permanently!!!
but i always thought that was a good one!

THERE ARE LOTS I DONT SAY!!!!

This message was edited Tuesday, Aug 27th 9:16 AM

My mother was a wonderful woman, so don't take these the wrong way, I was a pistol. I remember:
"Get on out to the willow and cut me a switch"
"If you girls don't stop I am gonna backhand you over this seat"
And of course,
"I can't wait till you have children of your own!"
Which I did and they were fortunately not the handful I was LOL!!! She often laughed that her "words" didn't ring true as my children were never disobedient, now how did that happen???
Oh by the way sledder, "The Look" that was my method, I don't even have to ask Angelsong, I know first hand it works!

This message was edited Tuesday, Aug 27th 8:34 AM

I've been known to say these, too...

"I'm gonna knock you into the middle of next week."

"I'm going to wash your mouth out with soap if I hear that again."

"Do you think I'm talking just to hear myself talk?"

I can imagine my 10 year olds thoughts to that last one...."Yeah, mom, that's exactly what I was thinking..."

Do you remember the "Mother Curse"?

"When you grow up I hope you have a child just like you"

LOL

Oh, oh I just remembered another one!
"If I have to stop this car...!" I SO use that one. LOL

I should have eaten you when your bones were soft and that would have destroyed the evidence. EWWWWWWWWW this one still gets to me. Lani

My favorite to my kids was and sometimes still is,
"Do I have to walk around with a tape recorder, don't tell me what I just said, I know what I just said"!

I don't have kids to say this to, but I just remembered my mom used to say "I'm gonna zizzerate you!"

Zizzerate? What was THAT all about? LOL

This message was edited Friday, Sep 6th 8:40 PM

And what about..
"I am going to put something on you Ajax won't take off!"

I also got a lot of "Wait till your father gets home", which I always liked, cause I was his favorite LOL!

Badseed, What exactly did your mama "put on you" that wouldn't come off with Ajax?

LOL Can't honestly say so it must of come off! LOL A good thrashing was not heard of in 'those days'. So glad to see them go. :) Her best friend was wicked with weeping willow branches-even made her kids go pick their own. I am also glad I am not like my mother. LOL

If your friend jumped off of a roof would you?

I am going to beat you like a red headed stepchild.

I am going to knock you into the next county.

I don't have kids and even when I had to work with them I don't recall sounding too much like my parents .. bit of luck really in todays world *G* I've occasionally turned round suddenly on hearing my Father's or Mother's tone of voice only to find it was me!

LOL I do remember my Mother often saying to me, something in the region of 'When people ask you something, you don't have to tell them the WHOLE, unembroidered truth' It was years before I worked out what she meant and a lot of my elders would whisper, mouth or jump up and down making no signs behind me to the unwary questioner; or interject with something very jolly and try hard to change the subject and send me off to do something.

all of these are hysterical,

smiln, I liked your ""Do you think I'm talking just to hear myself talk?" I use that quite a bit...

and gwydion, "If you want something to cry about, I'll give you something to cry about" this one is a favorite one of mine....

My mom reads these forums, so I have to be careful what I say!

But the most ridiculously rhetorical question of all: Do you WANT a spanking???? Pity the child who is asked this question - there is NO response that will placate the parent...

And "because I'm the mom, and I said so." I try really hard to not pull that one out too often. But occasionally I've given every explanation I feel necessary for my decision, and when I'm still getting pestered to change my mind, out it comes.

Then there's "IN OR OUT!!!!" which follows hearing the backdoor open and close one too many times.

Mirror Mirror on the wall
I am my mother after all.

Boy now all of these do ring a few bells with me too! I am the baby of 7 childern and so yea I have heard all of the above at one point or another in my life. I must admit I have used quiet a few of them on my own kids too! LOL
"Money don't grow on trees!"
Because I am your mother and I said so
After a spanking...stop crying, if you want something to cry about I can give you something to cry about.
And "The Mother Look" Boy do I know that one, and I have used that one many a times!! And if "The Look" didn't work, then we'd get a pinch(always in church, b/c we couldn't be still)
These are all soo funny, and brings back alot of memories!!

Well, like I said before..."quit that! Do you want your face to freeze like that!?"
And then I had to go and innocently ask "Is that what happened to you, mom?"

Won't forget that day!

After losing a boyfriend my Mom was known to say, "There are other fish in the sea".

My father also had his favorites, if I said "Wait or Wait a minute, he would respond with, "Wait made the train late", and if I would ask him what was he was doing he would say "Something to make little girls ask questions".

And I heard some of the ones already mentioned.

What about kid sayings???? I remember one I said, once and only once because I got back handed right in a store! LOL I dared to ask my mother to buy me something. When I got the look and the "Do you think I am made out of money?!" comment, I responded with "Have a heart, don't be a...!". I am cracking up just remembering it! Needless to say, just like on the Bill Cosby comedy thing, someone needed to pick my lips up off the floor, clean them off and put them back on my face! ROTF

The things I said as a kid sure did get me in trouble at times! Once while we were sitting in church, I was a normal kid and just couldn't be still. wiggle wiggle wiggle and I would stand up (granted that I was fairly short) I still wasn't suppose to be standing up...my mother gave me the look and I still didn't sit down, then she reached over and told me firmly to sit down!! I said ok but I am still standing up on the inside! Boy did I ever get a pinch b/c of that one!! Bad thing about that was if you went so far as to having to be pinched...you couldn't cry about it hurting!! b/c you'd get it worse when you got to the car!!

Molly, that makes me think of a kids' song I learned once..

Never wiggle wiggle wiggle
Never jiggle jiggle jiggle
Better Squash the wiggle worm
When you feel the urge to squirm
In your church on Sunday
In your school on Monday
Fight off the Wiggle
Fight off the Wiggle
Fight fight fight the Wiggle Worm ...

:)
-Jennifer

ROFLOL Jennifer!! Too bad I didn't know that song when I was growing up, it would have given me a reason to wiggle!! LOL