OT: Momisms

[UConnChapette]

In the week leading up to Mother's Day, let's celebrate by sharing those wonderfully insightful sayings our mothers bestowed upon us during our childhoods.

My mom was fond of the following:

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

My mother-in-law would sooth my boys when the tears would fall with:

It'll be alright before you get married.

 

[jostar1]

In the week leading up to Mother's Day, let's celebrate by sharing those wonderfully insightful sayings our mothers bestowed upon us during our childhoods.



My mother-in-law would sooth my boys when the tears would fall with:

It'll be alright before you get married.

What does that mean?

 

[Fishy]

"Drive yourselves. I'm done."

My mom after getting so pissed off at my brothers and I while driving us to Florida that she got out of the car in South Carolina and walked about a quarter-mile down the highway.

 

[FairView]

"Step on every stone and you'll never get home"
"It'll go away before you get married"
"She/he puts the handle on the pot wherever she/he wants"
"Rain makes you beautiful"
"Quick like a bunny"

 

[SallyH]

I need a strong back and a weak mind for this project, when she was soliciting help.

 

[ChicagoGG]

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"
"Stand up straight or you'll look old before your time."

Thanks, Chapette - another fun thread!

 

[phil sampieri]

Way back- when I would disagree with my mom- You are going to be a Philadelphia lawyer when you grow up. Never quite got that meaning why Philadelphia ?

 

[cookie447]

SPS: Self praise STINKS!!!!

 

[JRRRJ]

Clean up your mess.
Are you bleeding?
What did you expect?
No dessert until you clean your plate.
Outside!
I love you.

 

[Joobie]

My Mom had 2 favorites: "I hope you have 6 kids & they're just like YOU."
"Always wear clean underwear in case you get into an accident".

 

[UConnChapette]

Oh I forgot they most important and embarrassing. When leaving for a date. ..Keep your legs crossed!

Oh, yes she did do that.

 

[feste]

I need a strong back and a weak mind for this project, when she was soliciting help.

My mother was fond of saying, in her native Norwegian and freely translated here, "Keep your back straight."

My favorite Momism was a colleague during my working years who, upon the graduation of her child from college, advised the child "The Bank of Mom is closed."

 

[wire chief]

(in a strident voice) This towel is for dishes; that towel's for hands!

 

[pap49cba]

Mom: You finish your dinner right now.... Do you know how many Chinese men could live on that?

Me: So give it to some Chinese men.

WHACK!!!

 

[oneresult]

As I was playing ball about 4 houses away ; I would hear: Joey come home to eat.
My answer was Mom I'm not hungry
Her answer was hungry or not come home and eat...

 

[meyers7]

Mom: You finish your dinner right now.... Do you know how many Chinese men could live on that?

Me: So give it to some Chinese men.

WHACK!!!

It was starving children in Africa for us. I was smart enough not to tell her or dad to give mine to them. As Lobo said, you can think it, you just can't say it.

"Do I have to draw you a picture?"
"Get your shoulders back"
"Cotton picking xxx" (whatever was bothering her, Cotton picking kids, cotton picking car, cotton picking mixer, etc. )

She died too young (49), would have loved to hear what she had to say at an older age.

 

[UConnChapette]

Just you wait until you father gets home.

And the dreaded usage of first, middle AND last name - the highest category of trouble! Like a capital offense in my house.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

From Dad: Wise guys are a dime a dozen!

(I believe I heard that about a thousand times)

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Just you wait until you father gets home.

And the dreaded usage of first, middle AND last name - the highest category of trouble! Like a capital offense in my house.

My wife and I don't have children, but we have dogs - and my wife does the first and middle name bit when she is really mad, for example Max becomes "Maxwell Samuel" and Penny becomes "Princess Penelope Springfield". I don't think the dogs quite "get it" however.

As another example - apparently my wife's mother would go through a litany of all the kids names when she got mad at one; for example, if she was mad at my sister-in-law Eileen she might go "Judy" "Gayle" "Gary" "Amy" before getting to Eileen. It was the inclusion of the brother's name that reportedly used to drive the sisters crazy.

 

[ABachelor6CR]

As another example - apparently my wife's mother would go through a litany of all the kids names when she got mad at one; for example, if she was mad at my sister-in-law Eileen she might go "Judy" "Gayle" "Gary" "Amy" before getting to Eileen. It was the inclusion of the brother's name that reportedly used to drive the sisters crazy.

With my mom we could how mad she was by the number of times she went through the list of all 5 kids.

 

[ABachelor6CR]

Me: Mom my hand (or what ever hurt) hurts when I do ...this (showing her)
Mom: Wellll......don't do that.....

 

[Buster]

Be home before the streetlights come on!

 

[DaddyChoc]

you're gonna miss me when Im gone!

"give me my flowers now"

"you want sausage or bacon... with your grits"

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

"to each his(her) own"...then she would judge the hell out of many of my behaviors. Not that she wrong...

 

[johnnyc]

with eight kids probably the most frequent was 'get down from there.....you'll break your neck!

dad's most frequent was probably 'get down from there or i'll break your neck'