Posted on 12/13/2015 5:18:50 AM PST by VA Voter
Even though we didn't realize it at the time, most of the 50++++ generation was HOME SCHOOLED……….!!!!!!!!!!
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."
2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
4. My father taught me LOGIC. "Because I said so, that's why."
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
7. My father taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"
13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.."
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION . "Stop acting like your father!"
15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home."
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it from your father when you get home!"
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."
19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
20. My father taught me HUMOR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father."
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand.
25. My father taught me about JUSTICE . "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"
This should only be sent to the over 50 crowd because the younger ones would not believe we truly were told these "EXACT" words by our parents.
Wow! The author must have had the same parents as I had!
Ironically, if you said some of these things to your kids nowadays, you’d be charged with child abuse.
I sat at the table on a summer night until it was dark. I ate the spinach because my friends were outside laughing and playing hide and seek. I learned that warm spinach goes down easier than cold. Love spinach, now.
Ma taught us about RELIGION and GUILT. When we gave her a hard time she used to extend her arms and say “Go ahead. Crucify me like they crucified Jesus”
Swimming lessons...take you to deep water, let go,
I worked with a programmer from Russia — literally a rocket scientist — who was schooled by his parents, siblings and the local Jewish community underground because the education opportunities for Jews there were abysmal or non-existent. He eventually went on to a top university.
But, my dad never hit me .. he held such authority, that all he had to do was look at me .. if he nodded his head, that was yes .. if he just stared at me .. that was a definite NO.
THIS IS WHAT CREATED THE GREATEST GENERATION .. THOSE WHO HAD BEEN TOUGHNED UP TO THE POINT THAT THEY COULD WIN A WORLD WAR.
Sadly, today’s children are pampered and protected to the point that they can hardly function.
But .. there is a very, very large group of actual HOME SCHOOLED children .. who will be the leaders of tomorrow.
I know one of them who is training to fly fighter jets for the USMC.
“13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out..”
“And it won’t even bother me, because I’ll make another kid that’ll look just like you.”
;^)
26. My father & mother taught me about AIR CONDITIONING. “Shut the door; we can’t cool the whole neighborhood down!”
Thanks for the awesome vanity thread.
I don’t say that very often.
My mother taught me reason and logic: When I said “better late than never”, she responded, “better never late”.
My father taught me about losing, when I complained the meat on my plate was to tough, he stabbed the meat with his fork unto his own plate and said, “it’s tougher when there isn’t any”.
Hey, is that you little brother?...Mom is gonna be so angry when she sees this
My daughters tell me they learned most from the SILENT GLARE and the POINTED INDEX FINGER OF DOOM.
I watched them pass that “learning method” to their own children. That truly is how it is done.
My mother taught me THEOLOGY and MYSTICISM:
She wasn`t much of a church-goer but she would always send us off to church by ourselves.
One day I asked her why she didn`t go to church with us.
She replied, “ God and I have an understanding.”
My mother taught us MULTITASKING. She would always say, “Why do I have to do everything for you? Can`t you do anything by yourselves?./”
My mother taught me DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.
She would tell me, “Your father wants you to mow the lawn.”
There were starving children in China who didn’t have spinach.
Back then, parents were parents. Today, parents are bff and kids are growing up to be little bratty whiny kids who need day care at college.
As I often say, many young people think they have a lot because they have cell phones and modern conveniences, but we had less and had far more.
hmmm, there is a ring of familiarity here... lol
My mother taught me HOW TO COUNT TO 1,000:
She would yell at me: “How many times do I have to tell you to clean your room?!!!”
My mother taught me ENTOMOLOGY:
She would yell: “Close the door! You`re letting all the flies in!”
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