Ever notice how different families tend to have a different motto they lived by. It was the phrase they said when things got tough or talking about someone else having a hard time.
I grew up at the intersection of ‘It is what it is’ and ‘it could be worse’.
I never really thought about what they really meant until I had kids. I started listening to some of the phrases I said. I wondered which ones my kids would remember.
Here are the top phrases used in my household
- If it is sticky and not yours, don’t eat it.
- It’s good to want
- Would you like it if someone did <insert kid action here> to you? (example: Would you like it if someone farted in your face?)
- What happens if you guys fight over something? – Mama takes it away.
- No one wants to see your butt.
- After someone is crying about a minor injury – Should we cut it off?
What phrases or mottos do you use?
No farting at the table
Lol anywhere else is fine? Thank you for commenting.
Act like a fool, get treated like a fool.
That is a good one. Thank you for commenting.
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Thanks for a much needed laugh😂! Reminded me of my Mom’s favorite quote when she knew we weren’t sick and just wanted to bail on school. Me: “Mom, I have a headache.” Mom: “If I had a head like that, it would hurt too.”
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1. If anyone hurt because of being silly/stupid, my dad would always say, “Goofing around!” (we still use it)
2. If kid bumped in the head, I say, “Are you smarter now?”
3. Another one we borrowed from a TV preacher, “If you are doin’ the do’s, you won’t do the don’ts.”
I especially love #2. The last does have great cadence. 🙂 Thanks for posting.
What you originally started with. It is what it is and it could be worse. With an occasional no crying over spilt milk thrown in for good measure 😂
Love it. The spilled milk is a good one. I’d like to think that it makes us more resilient.
1. When the kids ask for an allowance: “You eat, don’t you?”
2. “Mom, do I have a fever?” Touch hand to forehead. “No, you’re just alive.”
Nice! The fever one is good, I think I will start using that.
I’m deprived!… off the top of my head I’m not sure we had any, though that’s probably an improbability!
Of course!… when my grandfather was going out and we’d ask where he was going, he’d say ‘I’m going to Timbuktoo’, or if he didn’t want to answer a difficult question, he’d just say ‘Because busses pass the door’!
Really? No – I’ll give you something to cry about, or there are starving kids in or you look with your eyes not with your hands? 🙂