This week�s useless but interesting information is a list of mom-isms (part 2 of 2); expressions that moms use with their children. How many times have you heard some of them? How many have you used with your own kids?
- I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one.
- I'm doing this for your own good.
- I'm going to give you until the count of three...
- I'm not always going to be around to do these things for you.
- I'm not going to ask you again.
- Is your homework finished?
- It's not that I don't trust you; it's that I don't trust everyone else.
- I've had it up to here with you.
- Leave your sister (brother) alone!
- Look at me when I'm speaking to you.
- Look at this room. It looks like a pigsty.
- No child of MINE would do something like that.
- Put that down! You don't know where it's been!
- Say that again and I'll wash your mouth out with soap.
- Shut the door I'm not heating (air conditioning) the entire neighborhood.
- So what if Bob's mom let him do it? If Bob's mom let him jump off the Empire State Building, would you want me to let you do it too?
- There's enough dirt in those ears to grow potatoes.
- Think of those poor starving children in India... (or China, or Africa.)
- This hurts me more than it hurts you.
- Turn off that light. Do you think we own the electric company?
- Turn that racket (music) down.
- Wait until your father gets home.
- Watch your language.
- Were you born in a barn? Close the door -- and DON'T slam it.
- What do you think, money grows on trees?
- What part of NO don't you understand?
- When I was a little girl...
- When I was young we had respect for our elders, now look at the world.
- When I was your age, I had to walk ten miles through the snow, uphill, by myself, to go to school.
- When I was your age...
- When will you be back?
- When you have kids of your own you'll understand.
- When you have your own house then you can make the rules.
- Where are you going?
- Where do YOU think you're going?
- Who are you going with? Do I know them?
- Who do you think you're talking to?
- Who said life was fair?
- Who taught you THAT? You didn't learn that in this house.
- Why? Because I SAID so, that's why.
- Wipe your feet.
- You are getting on my last nerve.
- You can go out to play...after you clean up your room.
- You can go out to play...after you've done your homework.
- You can't find it? Well, if you'd put things where they belonged, you wouldn't have this problem.
- You can't start the day on an empty stomach.
- You could have called.
- You don't always get what you want. It's a hard lesson, but you might as well learn it now.
- You have an answer for everything, don't you?
- You kids are trying to drive me crazy.
- You will ALWAYS be my baby.
- You WILL eat it, and you WILL like it.
- You won't be happy until you break that, will you?
- You'll understand when you're older.
- You're going to put your eye out with that thing.
- You're the oldest. You should know better.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
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