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[Yardlie]

i don't know if today's moms say these things. They seem to raise their children a little more "gently" than I was raised. (I'm 67.) Today's moms raise children to have great self-esteem. Maybe they still say these things:

Money doesn't grow on trees.

When you grow up, you're going to have a child who acts just like you.

As long as you live in my house, you'll follow my rules.

Don't wash your food down with milk.

Go ask your father.

Chew your food 20 times before you swallow it.

And my mother's famous saying that we all still laugh about. When she was fed up with discussing an issue, she would say: "DROP IT! Drop it on the floor and don't pick it up." LOL!

[Justholdingon]

I tried the "do you know how many children are starving in the world when you have that food to eat?" My son replied with " can you send this food to them then?" 😳

[SurferWife]

"You can get glad in the same drawers you got mad in!"

[alicedee]

"I don't care if everyone else is doing it...I'm not their mother."

[MarthaStewardess]

I'll give you something to bloody well cry for!

[Yardlie]

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@Justholdingon wrote:

I tried the "do you know how many children are starving in the world when you have that food to eat?" My son replied with " can you send this food to them then?" 😳

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@Justholdingon ... OMG...I used to hear that one all the time too! My mother always used China as the place where the children were starving. I was not a picky eater either, but my mother was a member of the "Clean Your Plate Club."  I especially remember having to sit at the table until all my milk was gone. I dislilked milk then and still do. When I grew up, I found out that my mother won't drink it either!

[QVCkitty1]

My tough ! But fair German mom had a million of them, but I heard this countless times, " If everyone jumped off a bridge , would you ?"  There is no answer to this, LOL. 

[Classylady]

Some of those are funny now that I'm a grandmother.

Mom always said, my house my rules.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

And my very favorite now that I'm an adult is: You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, so be nice to people.

[Yardlie]

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@alicedee wrote:

"I don't care if everyone else is doing it...I'm not their mother."

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@alicedee .. That is a good one! I think I said it to my children too. My brother once got into trouble when my mother said that because he asked if he could switch mothers! GROUNDED!

[cherry]

If we complained about how something looked  my mother  always said,  It won't be seen on a trotting horse