What our parents said to us when we younger

[lizzylard]

What our parents told us when younger and we would worry about these things

i remember as a child my mum telling me often if you fall down from that tree and break your neck don't come running to me.
little did i know at the time you would not be able to walk anywhere i still have not forgiven her.
Another one was wash behind your ears you could grow spuds there.

anyone else have any to share

[LBR]

Some of the hard ones were:

Not right now.

You children go out and play.

Be quiet. Your mother is resting.

How 'bout if I tell you a really nice one?

My grandmother told me this, when I asked her what thunder was. I was a bit frightened, and very small.

She looked at me, with much love in those sparkling blue eyes, and twinkled. She said, "Why, it's just the clouds bumping heads."

She gave me a soft, little hug, and I was never afraid of thunder again.

Her ways just gave us all the presence of love.

[the.fee.fairy]

I was told that thunder and lightning were God taking pictures and throwing furniture down the stairs!

[eccentric_emma]

Thats what I was told as well Fee! And I believed my mum as she is a devout Christian so (in my mind) she must know what God was up to!

My husband's Mum was always playing pranks on him, he asked if he had to go to school on Christmas Day, and she didnt directly lie to him but said 'you didnt think you were having a day off did you?'

My dad was particularly clever/mean, I was fascinated by him shaving and always used to sit and watch him every morning, and always asked when I would be allowed to shave, he used to say 'when youre a daddy' (i.e. never!), it was all fun and games until i repeated this to my childminder, who then had a little chat with my mum and dad!

[JulieSherris]

Most hated sayings by my Mum... 'We'll See'... which meant abso-bloody-lutely not.... and the other one... 'Because I said so'....
Grrr!! No, I wanted a real reason - not to be fobbed off!

Now, whenever my girls asked me something, I always tried to reason with them & & explain why they had to do something, or whatever.

Now I'm a Nanny though.... ask Leah what is the scariest thing in my house, & she'll tell you 'nanny'!!
It's because I banished the bath monster, killed the dragon that used to come down & sit outside her bedroom window, & I'm one of the scariest witches in the world
I have my own broom & I know all the witches in her storybooks..... Last year, we had a lot of settling cracks in our rented house - I told her that a giant 'Arthur' lived on the hill that we saw from the window & he came to scare us off, & stomped so hard, it made all the cracks..... I soon told him though, & chased him off with my rolling pin!
Turned out that Arthur wasn't scary at all - just lonely, because his mum & dad live in the hills at connemara... so when I baked cakes, I always baked an extra one for him & he used to leave little biscuits on the bottom stair just for Leah to say thank you (I used to put those little biccies that come with your coffee in pubs into my handbag, so I had a stash!)

See... memories..... are made of imagination & fun.... if only my mum had had half ounce of each.....

Julie.

[Milims]

My mothers favourite scary threat was "When I come over there I'll be beside you!"

[Rosendula]

"Don't you know that? I thought you'd've known that!". No explanation, though, so I still didn't know. ("father")

"You're bloody bone idle, you are" ("father", usually when we'd missed a bit when washing pots, wiping tables and worktops, cleaning the cooker, etc.)

"How stupid!" ("mother" when we didn't get something perfect, like when I cooked Sunday lunch and didn't give her enough spouts, or when I made cooked meat sandwiches for everyone else and left them on the hob ready for when they got home, then put the oven on for a quiche for myself)

"She's thick, she is!" ("father", to me, about my sister, my Gran and anyone else who didn't know something he or my mother knew, like when my Gran asked my mother for a recipe for corned beef hash. Like he knew!)

"You'll grow out of it" ("mother", re: depression, constant crying, thoughts of suicide, shutting myself away in the wardrobe)

"You've got sparrow legs" ("mother", when I was little)

"Oh you're feet are so big" ("mother", said with great dismay every time I needed new shoes)

"They'll pan" ("mother" regarding any shoes that didn't fit properly)