Don't come crying to me and other sayings from our parents.

[Jules]

It seems like our parents all hung out together.

 

[Murrmurr]

My parents never used fantasy fear tactics to keep us from doing things like running across the street without looking both ways or playing on the hay-baler or climbing the 5-ft tiller blades, but they always explained actual possible consequences, and that was frightening enough.

As for cussing; my dad was a potty-mouth, so we didn't ever get in any real trouble for cussing, but my mom told me to watch the upset expressions on people's faces when dad did it. To this day, that stops me from cussing in front of certain people...."mixed company," is the term.

 

[horseless carriage]

A penny for your thoughts. Actions speak louder than words. An arm and a leg. Back to the drawing board. The ball is in your court. Barking up the wrong tree. Beat about the bush. Biting off more than you can chew.

 

[Jace]

"What did I tell you"..

I guess it was a nicer way of saying "Told you so"

 

[charry]

Wait till your father gets home…….

ask your father first….

elbows off the table

 

[oldlongwalker]

Don't make me stop this car!

And then this came out:

 

[MountainRa]

Stop running with that! You’re going to poke your eye out!

 

[Marie5656]

Many of the above. But my favorite was after I had fallen in my front yard and broke my arm. My mom would tell the story always ending the telling with "On the GRASS , mind you"

 

[Alligatorob]

Horse feathers

rarer than hens teeth

go fly a kite

domino - meaning to give birth

 

[kaydee]

My dad's favorite was "if you don't stop crying, I will give you something to cry about!"

 

[Muskrat]

Sticks and stones may break your bones…

 

[Dee Jay]

Whan I was upset over something my mom would say, "A hundred years from now, it won't matter."

My mom often said that too!

 

[NorthernLight]

"What will the neighbors think?"

And, when being exhorted to clean the house, "What if the Queen came to visit?"

 

[jujube]

"Always wear clean underwear. You never know if you are going to get knocked down by a car and taken to the hospital!"

OK, my mom never actually said that one, but it was always a running joke......"Sorry, Mrs. Smith, he was brought in with dirty underwear and there wasn't anything we could do for him. "

 

[Kika]

After a minor injury or discomfort: "It's far from your a**, you'll never have to sit on it."

 

[jujube]

I always said growing up that I was NEVER going to say those things to my kids and wouldn't you know it? When I had a child, I opened my mouth and my mother's voice came out....

 

[Alligatorob]

Wait till your father gets home…….

One of my mother's favorites.

One time my brothers and I ganged up on her and started turning it back say to her that we were going to tell father what she had been doing and she was going to be in real trouble. We managed to bring her to tears... Well she wasn't the one with the problem when my father got home, not even close.

Now I cringe thinking about it, my mother was a very nice lady and did not deserve any of the grief we gave her... that one may have been the worst.

 

[Dave03]

My Gram had a million of them, but my all time favorite was one that dealt with the consequences of your actions:


You burned your behind, now you have to sit on the blister.

 

[Ruthanne]

Don't cry over spilt milk.

Your face is going to freeze that way.

Don't take any wooden nickels.

Get a horse!

 

[oscash]

When my little ones questioned their Father about "Why" they couldn't do something, He'd say, "Because Y is a crooked letter and can't be straightened". They were dumbfounded and didn't know what to say.

 

[oscash]

My Father's favourite line was, "What will the neighbours think"?

 

[Jules]

"Always wear clean underwear. You never know if you are going to get knocked down by a car and taken to the hospital!"

As a nurse friend said, “it doesn’t matter if they’re clean to start with, they’re going to be dirty after the accident.”

 

[debodun]

When I had "The Talk" with mom, she said, "Men give love to get sex. Women give sex to get love."

 

[oscash]

My Dad sometimes said when I got a whack for being naughty: "This hurts me more than it will hurt you"????????

 

[Fyrefox]

Then there was, “Don’t sit so close to the TV screen, or you’ll go blind!” But if I walked in front of the TV screen while my mother was watching, I was told “You make a better door than a window!”