Posted on 12/13/2015 5:18:50 AM PST by VA Voter
100. FLYING lessons: “I’ll kick you in your butt so hard you’ll land in the next county!”
LOL Yes.
Very clever list. Thanks for posting.
Pinging to a funny thread. Do you have any to add?
I have a Jewish mother. That should encompass everything.
What you describe is what a friend referred to as “some things aren’t taught, they’re caught.” You just KNOW.
You should have done what I did. Eat the good stuff first, pick a fight with sibling, get sent away from the table.
It worked every time.
I think that’s true. The parents set an example and a standard in the home .. and it just naturally rubs off on the kids. A lot of times, it’s the parents taking the kids with them, such as when they do kind things for other people, so the kids can see how to treat people; older people, or sick people, or physically handicapped people, etc.
Children do learn by what they see and hear.
Example: While my mom was a democrat most of her life, she was very active in our community. She would open up our home every election as a polling place. I realized years later that her actions were probably responsible for my being so concerned about elections, and/or politics in general.
Did you grow up in CA? They have all kinds of polling places, and IIRC, by law have to have one for every 800 voters or some seriously low number. I remember voting in a neighbor’s garage when I lived in Newport Beach !!
Here in Northern VA, we use only the cafeterias/auditoriums in the public schools (that always have a long weekend preceding the elections). And we usually have @ 1200-1500 registered voters per polling place (# of voters is another story).
Love the osmosis...LOL!
I pronounced this over my oldest after she pushed me over the edge for the last time. Turns out it was a curse, it came true, she now realizes it, and is remorseful for all the grief she caused me...
Karma is a b!tch...!
I never thought of that. ;-)
my mother taught me PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AND CROWD CONTROL:
She used to tell me “Get outta bed. You want to sleep your life away? It`s Saturday morning. Take your brothers and sisters to the moviehouse to see the cartoon show (10am). [There were seven of us; it was 2 miles to the moviehouse. We walked it.] “NO POPCORN, NO SODA, NOTHING! After the show is over, you march them right home! No stops along the way!”
my mother taught me CONSTITUTIONAL CIVILIAN CONTROL OF THE MILITARY:
She would yell at me if I was late coming home. “Where have you been? Do I have to send the whole Army out to look for you?”
Hahaha! :-)
My father taught me HUMAN ANATOMY:
He would say: “Wha`ya mean, you lost the quarter I gave you?
You`d lose your head if it wasn`t screwed on!”
I AM one of the parents of the over 50 crowd.
Once when one of my sons was about 7 or 8 he and his friends went to a small local pond to play hockey.
He was back in less than a 1/2 hour saying the big kids(age 13,14) had kicked then off of the ice.
I told him that’s the way it is and when he was a big kid HE could kick the little kids off of the ice.
I have no ides if he ever did-——and no one grew up seeing a shrink because of the mean mother.
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Same here. Once you get out of the bag, it's pretty easy...
Thanks. Those about cover it.
This is great!!!!
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