Momisms
By Genipher
@Genipher (5405)
United States
May 6, 2016 4:09pm CST
A Public Service Announcement:
As Mother's Day draws closer please don't forget:
--To change your underwear before you go out. You never know when you'll be hit by a bus!
--That if you keep making that face, it'll stick that way. Forever.
--You'll eat it and you'll like it!
--Mom brought you into this world and she can take you right back out again!
--Enough is enough! Don't make her say it again!
--To add some cheese to your whine.
and, it's that way because, "Mom said so!"
Momisms: the only reason we survived childhood!
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@polyxena (2628)
• Sturgis, Michigan
6 May 16
The whole, "I brought you into the world and I can take you back out again." was a fairly common one, it's kind of sad that mom's can't use that wording now a days without being called "abusive," or that it's bad parenting. It actually made us listen.
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@polyxena (2628)
• Sturgis, Michigan
6 May 16
@Genipher exactly. I just love (note the sarcasm) the mouthy kids now a days if you tell them either of those lines, it's "You can't do anything anyway." It reminds me of the one time my dad was dating this girl and her son was a trouble maker to the "T" and his mom wouldn't do anything because she was afraid or something. I remember the one day he was doing something and someone called the cops on him for it, either my dad or his girlfriend, and the cop goes to him, "Does your mommy beat you?" He shook his head no and the cop responded, "If you were my kid I would." I was like 16 or 17 at the time and all I could do was laugh. The cop was right there needs to be more less limits.
@Genipher (5405)
• United States
6 May 16
@polyxena
My mom babysat a boy who kept his mother firmly under his thumb. As he grew older, he grew physically abusive with her and, we later found out, sexually abusive with his brother.
His dad wasn't in the picture so, I think, his mom coddled him. She would just shrug and laugh at his antics when he was a small boy. It wasn't as funny when he became a teen.
He needed a firm hand but that need wasn't fulfilled. She basically raised him to be a convict.
And all because "corporal punishment" is considered taboo.
@kevin1877uk (36987)
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6 May 16
Hope you have a wonderful Mothers Day, it was Mother Day of here in the UK in March.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
6 May 16
All of these sayings raised children the right way though. I have raised mine the same way but so many people back off-because they want their children to be their "friends". I have friends-my kids are my kids.
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