I don’t know how it happened but I woke up this morning and discovered I had morphed into my mother.
“How about some cereal with that sugar?”
“Get that hair out of your eyes!”
“I don’t care what the kids tell you at school, hair hanging in your eyes does not make you look cool.”
“You can’t live off Oreos alone dude.”
“I’m putting you on notice, if things don’t change I’m homeschooling you next year.”
“Homeschooling is not a prison sentence for kids. It’s an educational choice for concerned parents everywhere!”
“Keep it up with that attitude and you’ll find out what prison really is!”
“Tie your shoe laces, you’ll trip and hurt yourself.”
“Seriously, how old are you? How many times do I have to tell you not to chase your sibling around with scissors?”
“Do NOT MAKE ME CALL YOUR FATHER!”
“If you miss that school bus, I’m going to make you walk to school.”
“Don’t sit so close to the television. You’ll go blind.”
“Enough with the video games. You’ll rot your brain.”
“Don’t forget to bring your homework home!!!”
Excuse me now, while I go hunting for my cool factor. I seem to have lost it when I found my middle age.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 7:43
I ridiculed my friends son for having his ‘pants on the ground’ as if I could make him see how silly he looked.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 8:17
The one I use all too often is “Well, we don’t always get what we want.”
And of course, I have started using the one that tortured me for years growing up “You are not getting up from that dinner table until you try everything on your plate.” Man I sat at that table for hours (crying). My poor child……..
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 8:30
Be right back. I need to update your entry on jumptheshark.com
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 8:51
That’s so funny. It happens to best of us. You just turn around one day and you’re your old aunt Bunny, the one with the mustache.
I recommend you go get a pair of skinny jeans, a foehawk, and download a bunch of Rap Cd’s. If that doesn’t bring your cool factor back there’s always weed.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 11:10
And my favorite: I will pull this car over!
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 12:05
Oh the phrases that randomly come out of our mouths once we have children! I am also sure that at one time of another you said to yourself or out loud that you never wanted to be like your parents! poof, that just doesn’t ever seem to be the case. We are walking clones of them! Funny and yet oh so pathetic!! lol
Lynn
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 12:46
I have absolutely caught myself saying some of the things my mother used to say to me! I can only imagine how many more phrases are going to come out of my mouth when they get older.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 14:51
“What were you raised in a barn?” For eating with fingers, leaving the door open ect. and “Pretty is as pretty does” for the pretty daughter acting ugly. And every once in a while I even become my father, “Do you have the sense God gave goose?”
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 17:26
I think I have used half of those this week alone!!!!!! I was just crying yesterday that I turned into my mom!! Perfect timing for this one!
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 18:51
@Mac & Cheese, I’ve told my kids there will be a staple gun by the front door when they reach those teenage years. Either that or I’ll pull my pants down and let them and their friends be horrified by the sight. How has this fashion trend not passed yet?
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 19:10
No, baby, you’re too much younger than me to have found middle age. I refuse to be there yet, so you’re not even close. Deal with it.
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 19:24
Thank you for writing that post because now I don’t have to. LOL!
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 19:25
“I’m putting you on notice, if things don’t change I’m homeschooling you next year.â€
“Homeschooling is not a prison sentence for kids. It’s an educational choice for concerned parents everywhere!â€
Just so you know: we’ve had our 2 boys (14 & 7) in a cyber charter school since 1st grade. A lot of parents criticized us; many of them are now asking how they can do it, too. So don’t be so quick to sell it short!
(love the post, by the way!)
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 19:33
Oh, mom quotes…how ’bout this:
So, if your friends wore crap on their heads, you would too?
Thursday, 11 March, 2010 at 21:50
LOVE this. SO true the things you never thought you would say…. those words come back to haunt you.
Friday, 12 March, 2010 at 7:46
And the cycle will just go one.
Friday, 12 March, 2010 at 10:19
Yep, pretty upset when I realized I had turned into my mom. Still wondering how it happened.
Monday, 15 March, 2010 at 19:39
It is RIDICULOUS how much I channel my mother and I can’t even help it.
Sadie at heyMamas