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.
Rachel
I have nearly given myself whiplash at times turning around trying to figure out where the hell my mom came from…
just sayin’
Old School/New School Mom
I feel like this CONSTANTLY! And remember that I have a Jewish mother and I AM a Jewish mother. So I’m basically screwed.
Collette Palmer
It’s like having an evil twin! One day you just start bitching just like your mom. I think it’s the mother’s curse they put on us when they say “Wait till you have kids!” ARGH!!!!!!
pharmgirl
I threw out the old chestnut “IS it too much to ask that someone else be responsible around here?” this morning.
Geh..next stop, elastic waists and big hair
Sharon
Holy shit! Not only have I turned into my mother- most of you have too!
Her most creative addition to the list: “Stop that before you rupture yourself”. Peed my pants laughing the day that little gem came out of my mouth.
Shelli
The day my kids were watching MTV and I said, “Turn that crap off!” I knew I was doomed!!! I think my mother posessed me that day…she also jumps in front of the mirror every time I’m naked…
Finola
Tonight I gave my daughter the lecture on how we all have responsibilities in this house, when she objected to putting her clean clothes away. I even listed off all of the things that I had done for her that day. Sigh. I guess it’s inevitable…
Kimi the Qtswede
it happened to me not to my own kids, but to my teenaged nephew. He was listening to that gangster crap & I told him to turn that crap off. Followed by ‘NO, I’m not old, that shit just really SUCKS!’
Steph
As was recently pointed out to me “mom’s don’t say dude” so if you say dude (like I do) then you’re officially not your mother, YET!
Tawnya
What scares me is how much my 11 year old daughter sounds like me!! OMG. I never realized what I sounded like until she started parroting some of my gems back at me… I need a drink…
Mac & Cheese
I ridiculed my friends son for having his ‘pants on the ground’ as if I could make him see how silly he looked.
Heather
@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?
Raina
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……..
always home and uncool
Be right back. I need to update your entry on jumptheshark.com
Brett
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.
Melissa
And my favorite: I will pull this car over!
A Mother's Thoughts
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
Jeannie
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.
rugo
“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?”
Nicki
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!
David
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.