Mom's favorite sayings

[SunnyChic]

"Hold your horses!" Said to us kids when we were impatient.
"I'm going to throw you back in the cabbage patch!" Used intermittently with, "I'm going to give you back to the Indians!"
"Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite."
"Not for all the tea in China."
"Cold hands, warm heart, dirty feet, no sweetheart."

 

[Raiquee]

"I'll brought you into this world, i'll take you out!"
"Stop fake-crying or i'll give you something to cry about!"
"I'll sell you to the circus!"

My mama was meeean! lol.

 

[crazy goose lover]

I work with a black gentleman and he say when he was young coffee was expensive and the adults did not want the kids to drink it so his dad would say don't drink coffee it will turn your hands black. I asked him if that worried him and he said no but my mom was light skinned and we kept watching for her to turn darker because she drank a lot of coffee. I thought that was funny.

 

[incubatingisfun]

"Is this food good?" Nothing in this fridge has time to go bad

 

[crtrlovr]

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Every woman who has endured childbirth (or every stepmother who has dealt with a teen stepchild who thinks "if I can run her off, maybe dad and mom will get back together..."

) has earned the privilege to proclaim this blessing/curse on said child....

ETA: I recently had the privilege of laughing my behind off when my now 45 y/o stepson said, "Sue, I just don't know how to deal with ***** (his 13 year old son). He will lie about something KNOWING I saw him do it!" I couldn't help myself. I laughed until I couldn't stand up straight anymore, all while he's watching me, silently, with his head drooping. Finally, as I'm wiping tears, he says, "yeah, I know. I'm really paying for my past, aren't I?" YA THINK????

I do empathize with him to a degree, but that Law of Reciprocity (the Biblical principal of "you reap what you sow" is a bear, and will come back some day to either bless you, or bite you in the butt.

 

[92caddy]

My mom would tell us

you hant leaveing the table til you clear your plate
I told you once, Im not telling you again...............or else
if i have to get up, you'll be sorry
if you get in trouble at school, wait til you get home
go ahead and leave, less work I'll have to do
if I have to come to school and get you, you'll be sorry
if you dont get moving, we'er leaveing without you
if you listened the frist time
I told you so
Im the mom, thats WHY

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

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LOL I must agree here. I think our kids will, to an extent, have the same problems we did when growing up.

But at least we'll know what to expect.

 

[erthymom2]

"Keep your hands in your pockets and your zipper up"

"There are two times of day you don't mess with Mom: at wake up and bedtime"

 

[RoeDylanda]

"Use your head as something other than a hat rack!"
"YOU are THROWING your future out the window with BOTH HANDS!!" - *so* hard not to ask if a one-handed casual toss would be less offensive!

"DO YOU THINK I'M TELLING YOU THIS FOR MY HEALTH?!?!" - I hope not, 'cause you look like you're about to blow a vessel.

Her curse worked, BTW, and I have a child exactly like me.

But she makes me laugh every day, and I get more sleep than my mom did, so we have fewer all-caps-type conversations.

 

[Frosty]

So many of those were things that I heard growing up...

Onethat I haven't seen here yet: "Just because I fed you when you were little doesn't mean you can make a habit of it'