Things our parents said when they got aggravated with us....

Marcy Sheiner said:
I locked my son out of the house one day, he was only 3 yrs old but driving me crazy. It was winter, so the little brat starts taking off his clothes. As he knew I would, I brought him back inside.
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2-3 year olds are almost as bad as 12-15 year olds...I used to say they made 2-3 year olds to get me ready for the real tough one: 12-15 year olds.
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
I did that once: "Mom, I am bored".

I HATE dusting and washing baseboards to this day!
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I have a bad habit, Our home has 12 / 3 lofted ceilings with places to put stuff at the ends and above the Kitchen walls. The walls don't go to the top because its good to see the knotty pine ceilings too. The home is open air.
Awe an I collect Silver plated well oxidized Household stuff and set it up in those high shelf places. Its hard to dust them to. I didn't see that dust is my thoughts.

The thought is if you pass the gas it movers out quickly.
 
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She's proud to be the stubbornest person alive, and proud beyond words to keep reminding me.
Just saw it again an hour ago. Knew what was coming, and how, before the convo. But I had to ask.
Thinking of packing it in and leaving, not a new thing but this time it may really happen.
 
EmptyCup said:
We were told to shut the doors all the way - we are not trying to air condition the whole neighborhood!

I updated that for my own kids growing up in the desert - shut the doors! We don’t have swamp cooling!
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Can you believe we lived through swamp box cooling: Phoenix...Tucson was a bit better, but Phoenix, Gila Bend, Yuma, Havasu...smokin hot.
 
We bear the burdens of our upbringing. We learn from or we suffer the results.
We raise our own kids with hope that we learned something from our past. Unfortunately we are too close to our past to actually understand it. Never the less we do our best. With our kids grown we can now take the time to look back and realize that we were not far removed from our own world when we brought kids into the world. We did are best. We loved them like the love we never got, but wanted. We did what we thought was right and what we had wanted. Love is the overriding factor in all of this.
My experience is that my parents loved themselves more than they did me. I found that love in another family as I have spoke previously. I was fortunate. Others were not.
The parents suffer, the kids suffer. No one is happy.
I wish this wasn't true but it is.
What's done is done. Embrace them if you still can. Love them as your own. Look at them and see yourself.
They are yours. The product of your efforts and energies in life.
bob
 
Mom: "One more word and I'll mash your mouth!"

Stepdad (to any male who managed to get a task halfway right): "Thatsa girl."
 
rbtvgo said:
We bear the burdens of our upbringing. We learn from or we suffer the results.
We raise our own kids with hope that we learned something from our past. Unfortunately we are too close to our past to actually understand it. Never the less we do our best. With our kids grown we can now take the time to look back and realize that we were not far removed from our own world when we brought kids into the world. We did are best. We loved them like the love we never got, but wanted. We did what we thought was right and what we had wanted. Love is the overriding factor in all of this.
My experience is that my parents loved themselves more than they did me. I found that love in another family as I have spoke previously. I was fortunate. Others were not.
The parents suffer, the kids suffer. No one is happy.
I wish this wasn't true but it is.
What's done is done. Embrace them if you still can. Love them as your own. Look at them and see yourself.
They are yours. The product of your efforts and energies in life.
bob
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"They loved themselves more than they loved me...".
Abandoned at 3 and 6, two little girls.
Never did find a loving family.
Found more devil than ever knew existed,
simply looking for a loving family.
We survived, we are grown.
I have me and I have a sister.
We made it, separate but together.
 
Since dad was gone alot, mom ruled the house with her 3 boys, each 5 years apart.
Fast forward and I'm the one gone alot and my wife ruled with 2 boys 14 years apart.

Both would say they kept a list of all the 'bad' things we did and would give it the dad
when they returned.
That usually stop the fights or bad things just in case there really WAS a list.

I never saw a list and the joy of being home, I was a push-over when it came to discipline.

My mom's favorite reply was ' I love you, but I don't love your ways' when we did questionable things.
 
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