Silly things our Mums said

joanlawson

Hi

Have you ever been guilty of saying any of these to your children or grandchildren:?: I know I have. They are so silly, and yet you hear yourself saying them.

Worse things happen at sea

If you don't eat your carrots, your hair won't curl

Wait till your Dad gets home!

If you pull a face and the wind changes, you'll sick like it.

Make sure you have clean underwear on in case you get run over by a bus.

Why don't you grow up?

Can you think of any more :?:

Joan

frogmorton

Joan



and I think me face DID stick like it :shock:



see?



I say:

@You'll have your eye out with tha.

Quite a bit

dreamdaisy

I have lost count of the daft things my mum told me but I remember two quite clearly. If you eat apple pips you will grow a tree in your stomach and if the ice-cream van has its chimes ringing that means it's empty. DD

janie68

Another my Mum used to say to me, go and play with the traffic. What's that all about!!???

Don't swallow your bubblegum otherwise your stomach will blow up!

Janie

frogmorton

What was all that about.....???

Ice cream vans are just PRACTISING....that's what I had to tell mine

Love

Toni xx

dreamdaisy

Nice one, you is makin me larf. DD

angel1

"You`ll laugh on the other side of your face, if I come over there".

I tried to do it once, to show her it was impossible. Boy, did she prove me wrong!!

lindalegs

Ice cream men only play their tune when they're out of ice cream :shock:

Luv Legs

joanlawson

I used to hate car journeys, so was always asking,''Are we nearly there yet?'' My Mum would always reply,''Just round the next corner''.

dreamdaisy

I was told that crusts gave curly hair and that carrots were good for your eyesight. Apparently there is some truth in the latter - isn't it the beta-carotene or somesuch? It's also in tomatoes I think. DD

valval

dont you just hate it when your mums words come out of your mouth. always said would never say what she did and yet out it comes lol

dreamdaisy

'Tis a sad truth - we usually become our parents. DD

coco67

if you dont shut of wiv the crying i will give you sumat ta cry about,


i remember my mum saying that to me one day, i shouted back at her, " i already hav iv busted me flaming arm"

and i had, i fell out of a tree lol,

gickygawky

My parents we always saying strange things to me when I was too young to know any better.

Phrases that spring to mind include....

Your ears are plastic, if you don't wash them they will fall off!! :shock:

If you misbehave the sheep at the end of the hallway(where it was dark) will come and get you :shock: (Dad would be at end of hall and go 'Baaaaa')

That there were budgies inside the car door that dad used to feed when I went to bed :shock: (Apparently more appropriate than saying 'Yes Arna, it is a sqeaky old car')

Mum said she had eyes at the back of her head and could see everything that was going on :shock: (think this is actually true)

Tomatoes taste like Weetabix :roll: (They don't, and I will not be tricked anymore)

If you pick your nose your belly button grows! :shock:


Arna x

lindalegs

Please Miss may I have a Dad one that's not stupid?

He used to tell me stories about someone called Lizzie Dripping who lived in my hot water bottle and who looked after me when I was asleep.

I loved those stories.

Luv Legs

cthornley

when ever we hurt ourselves dad told us not to make a fuss or
Dr Chopitoff would Chop it off

this wasn't a thing my parents said but a thoughtless dr when I was a little...my brother and sister were both in hospital with a serious infection that caused their glads to swell up with huge abcesses my brothers was on the right cheek my sisters on the left and they both required surgery...some thoughtless dr casually said to me to watch out as I would probably get one in the middle...I spent 2 weeks anxiously studying my chin, needless to say I was fine.

annie_mial

I remember that when the fashion for short cardis (bolero style - call 'em shrugs today, don't they) came in, my mother used to tell me that I'd get a chill in the kidneys - Lynn, I find myself looking at all these youngsters wearing nothing at all round the middle even if the temperature is zero and thinking "you'll get a chill round your kidneys if you're not careful".

Annie

joanlawson

cthornley wrote:

when ever we hurt ourselves dad told us not to make a fuss or
Dr Chopitoff would Chop it off

this wasn't a thing my parents said but a thoughtless dr when I was a little...my brother and sister were both in hospital with a serious infection that caused their glads to swell up with huge abcesses my brothers was on the right cheek my sisters on the left and they both required surgery...some thoughtless dr casually said to me to watch out as I would probably get one in the middle...I spent 2 weeks anxiously studying my chin, needless to say I was fine.

This reminds me of when I had mumps very badly, and the doctor told me that my face looked like a turnip. To make matters worse, he told me not to look in the mirror or it might stay like that :!: :shock:

mummyb

I'm sure my mum made hers up as she went along, if we didn't do what she asked immediately she would say ......" well don't gee your ginger will you". Still not quite worked out what my ginger is, although could probably have a good guess!!! (I think its probably another way of saying " get your backside into gear and get moving". , Brenda xx

ninakang

I've really enjoyed reading this thread, how funny also that these sayings cross language barriers, my parents have always spoken to us in Punjabi but translated, they've said all these things. There were a couple not mentioned which they said:

- Nina, god gave you such huge eyes, why can't you see what's right in front of you?
- I promise you, if you don't stop crying, I'm going to smack you

I'm also guilty of repeating these to our girls. I've also said:

- I don't want to know unless there's blood involved - sort it out yourselves

Nx :-)

dreamdaisy

Which only goes to prove, ninakang, that people are people the world over! Race, colour, creed, all are immaterial, 'cos basically we're all the same. I love the big eyes one! I only have piggy little eyes, so therefore am excused the seeing of obvious things. DD

tkachev

My mum always used to say Your only doing it for attention. How i still hate that phrase and certainly dont use it with my own children.


Elizabeth

dreamdaisy

I love this line from my MIL: She can't help her looks but she could stay inside. Hee-hee! DD

joanlawson

Here's a few remembered from my Yorkshire upbringing:

" If yer do that again yerl gerra good tanning"...

wor tha born in a field?

Put t' wood in t' oil

and to express surprise, '' Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs !''

auntyphyl

dreamdaisy wrote:

'Tis a sad truth - we usually become our parents. DD

Dont forget our kids seem to become our parents its very hard raising your parents.

trisher

I was told If you swollow your bubble gum it will stick to your heart and kill you.

When I thundered my mum would say it is only the coalman.

If you don't eat your carrots you won't be able to see in the dark.....I remember my sister and I would stay awake until it was dark just to see if we could see in the dark.

The clean underwear was what my mum used to say to us.