ma-ma-ma mama used to say....

[crisgal]

I've just told my son that "They'll go in  the bin if I pick them up" and earlier I heard myself say "I don't wash and iron for the fun of it you know"

Have you found yourself saying things your mum used to say to you - things that you swore you would NEVER say?

[IndieSinger]

Yes. A few months ago, I was out shopping with a girl I really liked. She was forced into bringing her 10-year-old tyke of a nephew with her. Oh, I might point out that I was only 21 at the time myself. He was walking around with a soft drink container from a fast-food outlet and when he'd finished, he just put the empty drink down on a bollard. Before my brain could stop me, my mouth said, "Err... it doesn't belong there, does it."

The girl went off me.

[issy35]

The classic " when you live my under roof you'll live by my rules" slipped out recently along with "I want doesn't get don't you know your manners yet". I had to stop and think where I'd heard this....I now know i'm getting old!!

[silly moo]

Just to depress you youngsters even more - the old adage about women turning into their mothers and men turning into their fathers can be so true.

other phrases:
I want never gets and please is too late.
Do you want a smacked bottom.

By the way I once DID put my daughters toys in a black bin bag and put it by the dustbin.
On complaing to their Dad they were told
"she told you she would do it. have you tried apologising and putting your toys away"
They did and rooms were tidy for at least a month !!!

[mrs.pudding]

if I made a rude face my mother would say "The wind will change and you'll stick like that."  I've found myself repeating it to my children more than once!  And, "don't run crying to me if you break your leg doing that."

[Hellion]

I have a theory that when you give birth to your first child they give each parent an injection. Mum get's a 'Mummy Injection' which equips her with all the things her mother said to her. Daddy gets a 'Stupid Injection' which makes him completely stupid and of no use to Mummy whatsoever for the first year of the child's life!

[Xollob]

Will anyone else admit to uttering one of the rants I grew up with: "That's not music - it's just noise"?

[silly moo]

Happy to say that they forgot my other half's injection.
couldn't have coped wothout him.

[IndieSinger]

Xollob (cool name, by the way ;) that just this minute happened. As I mentioned, I'm only 22, but I was just in my neighbour's room and he was playing something called "Hardcore Emo Straight Edge..." something or other, I don't know. He asked me what I thought of it, and I just said, "That's not proper music, that's just shouting."

Hello Daddy, here I come.