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.
“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.”
100. FLYING lessons: “I’ll kick you in your butt so hard you’ll land in the next county!”
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.
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 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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