Too Big for Your Breeches

My personal favorite was on big car trips. "Don't make me come back there". Or "I WILL pull this car over". My mom did not make idle threats. She came back there numerous times as well as pull the car over.

Because I said so!
I now understand why moms say that.

What part of NO did you not understand? Was it the N? or the O?

"Hey!" is for horses, better for cows, pigs can't eat it, they don't know how

Because I said so!

If so and so jumped off a bridge, would you?

hhhmmmm...same thing I tell my kids...

The "M" stands for "MOMMY" NOT "MAID"

IN OR OUT!!! We can't afford to heat or cool (depending upon the season) the outside too..

You did what? Oh Lord.

If it hurts when you do that, then don't do it.

She took what away from you? Was it hers? So. the problem is what?

Wait 'til your father gets home..

that was the scariest one - EVER...wait 'til your father gets home...my mom has these sky blue eyes and when she got mad (she had a VERY long fuse) i swear to God - seriously - Ice Daggers came from those eyes...one mean look from her could stop me in my tracks and duck for cover!

*Because I said so.
*You better tuck that lip back in before a bird comes along and poops on it. (that one was in refernce to pouting)
*You can want in one hand and sh*& in the other and see which one fills up first.
*If you said, where are we going my mom would say "crazy, you wanna go?"

My mom used to say "I am your MOTHER!" (Like I ever had a doubt...)

I now say "I'm your mother, not your maid."

Other than that, I really don't have any sayings from my mother. She was too busy to be bothered giving advice. It was my dad who all sorts of stupid sayings.

-If you keep making that face it will stay that way and you'll look like that forever.

A variance on the ' can't' - can't never could...i use this
' only boring people are bored' - I use this one too!
I love the horse one...I'll have to add that :-) fun post

Oh this is SOOOOOOO funny.

ALL OF THIS STUFF WAY SAID TO ME AS A CHILD.

WHAT A BLAST FROM THE PAST.

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My mom used to scream at me from across the house saying
" I can see you, stop jumping on the bed right now ! "

I was like WHAT?
How did she do that.

Now that I am a mom I can understand that she knew me like a book and that she heard me jumping on the bed.

Now that I am a mom, I do this with my kids. But my kids like to test me and be like " oh yea, if you can see me then HOW MANY FINGERS am I holding up?"
So when my daughter asks, I say 7 fingers, she is like WOW!
One of my sons is 5 and he likes to hold up 5 fingers. He is like WOW too.
Of course I know my kids like a book as well, but they don't know it ~ so they truly do think mommy can see through the walls.

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For stuff that they have to eat that I know they won't like
I say "oh yea, that taste good."

I also say ~ " Because I said so! "

And I also say
"It won't hurt.!"

= )

if you roll your eyes again, they'll stay like that.

in order to look for things, you have to move things.

because i said so

because i'm your mother and i can.

i just remembered this one! Were you born in a barn?!!! shut the door!!

"You have two legs...get it yourself!"

"Because I said so..."

"Because I'm the mom...."

"Well, you're MY kid, and MY kid isn't doing that..."

"That's for what I didn't see you do!" <Insert LIGHT butt swat>

"All moms have eyes in the back of their heads...you just can't see them."

if we ever said we were bored she would tell us to go run around the house lol. i found myself saying that to my son awhile back. that and "because i said so". lol.

If all your friends jumped off the Empire State Building would you jump too?

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If all your friends jumped off the Empire State Building would you jump too?

Two sayings from my grandmother ...

You get more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Six of one; half dozen of the the other.

I thought they were old and dated...now I find myself using them and smiling every time I do. Hmmm, actually they are old and dated.

Some of my other "favs" -

Where you raised in a barn?
Your face is going to freeze that way!
I heard that!
Excuse me (normally follows "I heard that" when speaking with my teen)
I am not the maid (um, I do use this one)

Things my teen says that annoy me - because he has an entirely different "language" than I do.

IDK (text speak for I don't know - I get this a lot via the phone)
Really (it means yes, no, hell no, you're kidding, and more)
Lulz (spoken form of LOL - honest, they say that when something is funny to them - I suppose it is not cool to actually laugh out loud anymore).

The only one I can think of, right now, that I just makes me cringe is
"I'm gonna' blister your butt when we get home"
I hate when I hear someone say that.

I have used the "don't make me pull over" threat in the car - then I have pulled over...scared heck out my son and his friend that was with us - they really thought I was going to put them out. Oh, and "don't make me take the door off the hinges" - didn't have to do it, but my son knows that I never make idle threats and wasn't brave enough to chance it. We still laugh about that one as one of his friends was over (different from the car incident) and the friend still teases about it also.

My Mom, God rest her soul, didn't have to say a word to my sister and me - she could stop us dead in our tracks with just a look.

This was fun !!
Thanks Theresa

I kind of pride myself on not repeating or doing things my mom did, or using snide remarks to my kids! In any case, she didn't say a lot of those cliche things anyways :)

"You probably provoked him!" When my older brother would hit, kick, or be mean to me. Truth is, I usually did provoke him!

Mom was never very helpful. The only thing I can remember is the whole cow milk thing. I think she thought that was sex ed. Needless to say I have never quoted that as sage advice or anything I would tell my daughters. :(

My friends mom would always tell us if we left the door open too long in the summer, you can't air condition the world. I have found myself telling my own kids that.

What do all those saying mean??? WIth the exception of "too big for your britches" and "it doesn't hurt", I can't understand what the heck your mom is talking about! Did she make up all those phrases?

Thats funny! I say I HOPE your PRAYING all the time!!!

My Daddy used to say "Shake it off". Cannot tell you how many times I have told my kids that.

My mom used to sing The Rolling Stones ,"You Can't Always Get What You Want" when things didn't go our way. I still hate that song... :)

"If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?"

And, "Life isn't fair!!" (hated when she said that!)

When fidgeting too much ie. in church, "Do you have ants in your pants?"

And, when she was mad at me she used to sarcastically call me "Missy Pooh".... where the hell did that come from?"