Does your Mom ever say stuff that just doesn't make sense?

It is not selective memory you said that you only goes to your friend home only once. This is why she ask you if you make your son goes to friend yard. Alot of grandparents are afraid when their relatives goes to another yard. You see there are incidents that always happen and no parents know until it is too late. Head injury is one of the things that does not take effect until that child is older and having a tumor. Yes this can happen while participating in school sports activities but a teacher will be there to assist. While growing up my parents was against going to friends yard until I grow old enough to understand. At the time I didn't appreciate but now I see what they see that I didn't. Mother's are older and wiser. The next time sit down and ask your mother why she is against it and she will tell you her reason.

Yes I do know what you mean about selective memory.My mother is a little different though,she remembers being a good mother.I have never had a good relationship with my mother.I have never understood what her problem was with me.I don't think she ever liked me.She has 6 kids only talks to 3 of us,and of us 3 only really bothers with my sister.she calls her,goes to her house .She has never been to my house,by her own choice,doesn't call either.She did tell once in a bar when I was 14,she was very drunk she said she hated me because my father raped her when she got pregnant with me.I believed her at the time,and added that to my list of things I felt guilty about.Now that I am an adult I can see that she was probably just drunk,because if that was her excuse for not liking me then what is her excuse for not talking to 3 of her kids.At least she somewhat talks to me,she hasn't spoken to one of my brother in 26 years and one of my sister in 10. Some mothers weren't meant to be mothers,I still love her,and I know she loves me. Jas

Sunnflr, My mom does seem to have selective memory. As our parents age, they do seem to make a lot of changes. Some of them are rather interesting and even confusing at times. Let's just say it's an adventure to watch parents age. PearlGrace P.S. And I do consider myself an aging parent also...

Oh, man! My mother was the Queen of selective memories! She often said things that made no sense at all, some not having anything to do with memory! I was selling my first house, and my mother said "Don't sell your house to an investor. You'll never get what you want for it." Huh?????? I said, "Mom, it doesn't matter who buys my house. If they don't give me what I want for it, they won't get it." I grew up being told that there was a family castle in Germany. One day, quite out of the blue, the castle mysteriously moved to Scotland. She started telling me all kinds of things I did or said when I was younger that I simply could not remember! I don't have the best memory in the world, but I can pretty much swear that I never did or said a lot of those things she said I did. I hope we don't get like that when we're older! LOL

Yes she does, and it is basically on stuff that she told us as children. Shut off the lights I am not the Edison (the local power company) is one of the more favorable saying that stick out in my mind. And now as an adult I go over there and all the lights are on in the house and it's the middle of the day. LOL How ironic is it that are parents don't seem to remember all the things they use to make us do and use to tell us? LOL!