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woofwoof - > WOOF! I'm Sniffing out Oddities! -> Things you were told as a kid, over an over again.
Things you were told as a kid, over an over again.

Seeing this list I realized not only were they said to ME, I've said most of them to my own kids.  Ahhh, the circle of life.....

Isn't it time you thought about bed?
It must be somewhere.
Who do you think I am?
You'd better ask your father.
It's late enough as it is...
Don't eat with your mouth open.
In this day and age...
Did anybody ask your opinion?
I remember when I was a boy...
Why don't you do it the right way?
I'm only trying to tell you!
What did I just say?
B.E.D. spells bed.
Sit up straight and don't gobble your food.
For the five hundredth time.
Don't let me ever see you do that again.
Have you made your bed?
Can't you look further than your nose?
No more lip.
Have you done your homework?
Because I say so!
Go to your room.
My, haven't you grown!
Some day I won't be here, then you'll see.
A chair's for sitting on
Want, want, want, that's all you ever say.

What ones do you remember, or what are the ones you say to your own kids?

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Topics: sayings, parents, kids
posted by woofwoof on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 08:32 AM
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posted by ghostriter on Apr 18, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Yes, woof, it works much better, and they are more eager to respond. I look forward to grandchildren (not too soon, of course!) and listening to my kids tell theirs the same catch phrases.
posted by woofwoof on Apr 18, 2007 at 02:17 PM

I've said those words to my kids too, ghostriter.  It's funny but they take it seriously.  I'd rather use humor to get my kids to do things, it's  positive reinforcement.

posted by pamg on Apr 18, 2007 at 02:16 PM

Pretty is, as pretty does.

I wouldn't hold in my hand, what you just had in your mouth (said by my grandma whenever one of us said a dirty word)

I haven't been able to remember many of these things, which means either my parents didn't use the "standard" phrases, or if they did, they didn't make much of an impression on me!

posted by ghostriter on Apr 18, 2007 at 01:57 PM
Oh, and whenever my three kids and I were out anywhere and they misbehaved, I would say, "Sit, stay, roll over, play dead." It was something said in fun, and always got a laugh, but they knew that was the end of the good humor before someone was in trouble.
posted by woofwoof on Apr 18, 2007 at 08:50 AM

Wipe that grin off your face.

This one I said to my kids when they were younger:  Slides are for going down, not up! 

posted by woofwoof on Apr 17, 2007 at 10:28 PM

Don't pick at that, it'll leave a mark.

Wait till you father gets home.

Pull my finger.

posted by Roselady on Apr 17, 2007 at 07:34 PM
I was always told...(another favorite)...."The cake is done.....YOU are finished!".....this has made me think so much about  my mom.....she died last year.....makes me smile, the things she said...(Can youmake an emoticon that is half smile and half frown?)    
posted by possummomma on Apr 17, 2007 at 06:49 PM

"Did you finish your peas? You know that starving children in Africa would LOVE those peas!"

"Your face is going to freeze like that."

"Be a doer, not a me-too-er."

"We'll get there when we get there...now shuddup!" ... this usually went hand-and-hand with "You should've went before we left the house!"

"Do as I say, not as I do."

"Act your age!"

"What did you just say...?  Do you want me to wash your mouth out?"

"Stand still...we're almost finished!"

posted by ghostriter on Apr 17, 2007 at 05:06 PM

"Don't [do, say, wear, look like, act like] that, it's unbecoming."  I completely detest that phrase, and have always been convinced that, whatever it was that my mother wanted me to "become", I absolutely did not want to! I never used that on my kids, of course, but I do have a favorite. Whenever they got whiny and said "but I want that!" my answer was always, "people in hell want ice water. That don't mean they get it."

Oh, one my mom said that I like: "if you're spitting, somebody had better be ON FIRE!"

posted by Roselady on Apr 17, 2007 at 02:58 PM

I am a grandparent!!

posted by Roselady on Apr 17, 2007 at 02:53 PM

Can't I at least see the statement?

posted by randomfactor on Apr 17, 2007 at 02:49 PM

Roselady, sure you get points.  But as with all such programs you can't redeem them until 'way past the time it would help.

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You gotta be a grandparent first...

posted by Roselady on Apr 17, 2007 at 02:25 PM

OH MY....I guess I was lucky.....I was NEVER threatened with physical punishment!.....My mom just took away the things I liked best.  Like my horse...OH MY

 

posted by delialatham on Apr 17, 2007 at 01:51 PM

So many of these bring back memories. 

Here's a couple others.  When we misbehaved at the table, Dad would say, "Go outside with the other animals!"  And when we misbehaved ANYplace, Mom would order us to "Bring me your face so I can slap it."

posted by Roselady on Apr 17, 2007 at 01:20 PM

RF?...We get points?  Where's my statement?  I should have a bunch somewhere.

My fav....."you can do better than THAT!!!"   As if I wasn't really trying.  Maybe I wasn't, but she didn't have to point  it OUT!!

posted by robbwillis on Apr 17, 2007 at 12:39 PM

"Handy as a Teddy Bear with a p***k."

posted by allRED on Apr 17, 2007 at 12:18 PM
close the door were you born in a barn? Shut up, now tell me why did you do that. change your under wear if you get killed you dont want dirty underwear on. your sitting to close to the TV.
posted by possummomma on Apr 17, 2007 at 12:08 PM

"Don't you look at me like that!"
WHAT did you just say?"

"Excuse me, young lady/man?"

"Did you hear what I just said?"

"Well...one day, when you have your own house, and your own car, and your own kids,....you can do this however you wish."

"Don't rock your chair!"

"IF ALL THE OTHER KIDS JUMPED OFF THE *Insert very high place here*, WOULD YOU DO IT TOO?"

posted by sagefever on Apr 17, 2007 at 11:23 AM
me too~ there is a small loud lady in my head always telling me I am inadequate in all things,put a brown paper bag over her head but I still her muffled mutterings ever so often..I do not know the answer to why,my mom was mentally ill clearly but that does not make it any easer to deal with..
posted by woofwoof on Apr 17, 2007 at 11:18 AM

Ohhh Sage, you hit a nerve with me on that one.  How can anyone (my stepmom and mum did this too), tell a child they'll never be good enough.  I'm a couple years shy of 50 and still can hear that in my head......AACKK!  I always thought why try and do anything if someone is always gonna do it better than me.  Oh man I hate that one!

I have never uttered those words to my kids and never will. 

posted by Tolerance on Apr 17, 2007 at 10:54 AM
How about: "Its all in fun until someone loses an eye!"
posted by sagefever on Apr 17, 2007 at 10:52 AM
"You cant.." "you shouldn't.." you never learn..""get down"" don't"  " not good enough nor will you ever be"..tried very hard not to give that same message to my youngins, even though I owe my hardheadedness to that litany of crud I think positives are way more helpfull
posted by steveeswenson on Apr 17, 2007 at 10:28 AM
Don't back talk to me.
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Eat your vegetables.
I don't care what the other kids do.
If someone jumped off a cliff, would you do the same?
posted by pamg on Apr 17, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Don't touch that!  You don't know where it's been.
posted by mattcub on Apr 17, 2007 at 09:01 AM

Any of the above would fit, especially when it was preceded by my mother calling by my full legal name!

posted by woofwoof on Apr 17, 2007 at 08:39 AM
beat to the punch on that one....my dad use to really say that.
posted by randomfactor on Apr 17, 2007 at 08:38 AM

UPHILL BOTH WAYS!

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(I have a certain advantage...during the snowstorm a few years ago, I *DID* have to walk UPHILL through the SNOW to get to SCHOOL.  OK, it was just half a mile, and the school was closed anyway--but I still claim the points.)

posted by woofwoof on Apr 17, 2007 at 08:38 AM

To far from your heart to kill you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

posted by Hardliner4freedom on Apr 17, 2007 at 08:35 AM
"I used to walk 20 miles to school each way."
posted by randomfactor on Apr 17, 2007 at 08:34 AM

You forgot the most apt one:

"Just wait'll *YOU* have kids!"

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