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MOMISMS
These are those little sayings that are passed down from Mother to Child
then are magically are said again when that Child becomes a Mother!
Current Momisms Count: 160
- A little "birdy" told me!
- A little soap & water never killed anybody.
- Always wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident.
- Am I talking to a brick wall?
- Answer me when I ask you a question!
- Are you deaf or something?
- Are you going out dressed like that?
- Are you lying to me?
- Are your hands broken? Pick it up yourself! I'm not your maid!
- As long as you live under my roof, you'll do as I say.
- Beds are NOT made for jumping on.
- Bored! How can you be bored? I was never bored at your age.
- Call me when you get there, just so I know you're okay.
- Clean up after yourself!
- Close the door! You weren't born in a barn!
- Cupcakes are NOT a breakfast food!
- Did you brush your teeth?
- Did you clean your room?
- Did you comb your hair?
- Did you flush?
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- Do I look like a maid?
- Do you live to annoy me?
- Do you think I'm made of money?
- Do you think this is a hotel? You can't just come here only to sleep.
- Do you think your socks are going to pick themselves up?
- Don't ask me WHY. The answer is NO.
- Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
- Don't cross your eyes or they'll freeze that way.
- Don't eat that, you'll get worms!
- Don't eat the seeds or you'll have watermelons growing out your ears
- Don't EVER let me catch you doing that again!
- Don't go out with a wet head, you'll catch cold.
- Don't make me come in there!
- Don't make me get up!
- Don't pick that scab, it'll get infected.
- Don't pick your nose in public.
- Don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been.
- Don't run in the house.
- Don't run with a lollipop in your mouth.
- Don't sit too close to the television, it'll ruin your eyes.
- Don't talk with your mouth full!
- Don't use that tone with me!
- Don't walk away when I'm talking to you!
- Don't you have anything better to do?
- Eat your vegetables, they're good for you.
- Enough is enough!
- Go ask your father.
- Go play outside! It's a beautiful day!
- Go to your room and think about what you did!
- How can you have nothing to wear? Your closet is FULL of clothes!
- How do you know you don't like it if you haven't tasted it?
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I brought you into this world, and I can take you right back out!
- I can always tell when you're lying.
- I can't believe you can sleep in this filth!
- I can't believe you did that!
- I didn't ask who put it there, I said "Pick it up!"
- I don't buy snacks to feed the neighborhood!
- I don't care what "everyone" is doing. I care what YOU are doing!
- I don't care who started it, I said stop!
- I don't care who started it, YOU stop it!
- I don't have to explain myself. I said no.
- I don't know is NOT an answer.
- I hope someday you have children just like you.
- I hope you don't kiss me with that mouth!
- I just want what's best for you.
- I said CLOSE the door, I did not say SLAM it.
- I would have never talked to MY mother like that!
- If God had wanted you to have holes in your ears (eyebrows, tongue, etc.) He would have put them there!
- If I catch you doing that one more time, I'll...
- If I want your opinion I'll ask for it!
- If it were a snake, it would have bitten you.
- If I've told you once ... I've told you a thousand times.
- If wishes were horses...
- If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
- If you could stay out last night, you can get up this morning.
- If you don't clean your plate, you won't get any dessert.
- If you don't stop crying, I am going to give you something to cry about!
- If you stick your tongue out again it will fall off.
- If you're too full to finish your dinner, you're too full for dessert.
- If you're too sick to go to school, you're too sick to play outside.
- I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one.
- I'm doing this for your own good.
- I'm going to give you until the count of three... 1.. 2.. 2 and a half... 2 and three quarters
- I'm going to skin you alive!
- I'm not always going to be around to do these things for you.
- I'm not going to ask you again.
- I'm not running a taxi service.
- I'm not your waitress!
- It's no use crying over spilt milk.
- It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I don't trust everyone else.
- I've had it up to here with you.
- Life isn't fair.
- Look at me when I'm talking to you.
- Look at this room! It looks like a pigsty!
- Money does NOT grow on trees.
- Never try on anyone else's glasses or you'll go blind.
- No child of MINE would do something like that.
- No, I don't know where your socks are,its not my day to watch them!
- Nobody asked you.
- Now, come back downstairs and go back up WITHOUT stomping your feet!
- Now, say you're sorry...and MEAN it!
- Over my dead body!
- Pick that up before somebody trips on it and breaks their neck!
- Pick up your feet.
- Put that down! You don't know where it's been!
- Running away? Don't let the door hit you in the rear.
- Running away? I'll help you pack.
- Running away? Is that a threat or a promise?
- Say that again and I'll wash your mouth out with soap.
- Shut the door! I'm not heating (air conditioning) the entire neighborhood!
- So it's raining? You're not sugar -- you won't melt.
- Someday your face will freeze like that
- There's enough dirt in those ears to grow potatoes!
- Think of those poor starving children in India... (or China, or Africa.)
- This hurts me more than it hurts you.
- Turn off that light. Do you think we own the electric company?
- Turn that racket (music) down!
- Watch your language!
- Watch your mouth!
- Well, I haven't figured out how to cook "cold" yet.
- Well, people in Hades want ice water, but do you see me with a PITCHER?
- Well, people in Hell want ice water too!
- Were you born in a barn? Close the door -- and DON'T slam it!
- What did I say the FIRST time?
- What if everyone jumped off a cliff? Would you do it, too?
- What kind of a grade is that? You could do much better!
- What part of NO don't you understand?
- When I was a little girl...
- When I was young we had respect for our elders, now look at the world!
- When I was your age, I had to walk ten miles through the snow, uphill, by myself, to go to school.
- When I was your age...
- When you have kids of your own you'll understand.
- When you have your own house then you can make the rules!
- Where do YOU think you're going?
- Who died and left you boss?
- Who do you think you are?
- Who do you think you're talking to?
- Who said life was going to be easy?
- Who taught you THAT? You didn't learn that in this house!
- Why? Because I SAID so, that's why!
- You are getting on my last nerve.
- You can't find it? Well, I can't find it for you - I didn't wear it!
- You can't find it? Well, if you'd put things where they belonged, you wouldn't have this problem.
- You can't judge a book by its cover.
- You can't start the day on an empty stomach.
- You don't always get what you want.
- You had better wipe that smile off your face before I do it for you.
- You have an answer for everything, don't you?
- You just ate an hour ago!
- You made your bed, now lie in it.
- You must think rules are made to be broken.
- You should have that phone surgically implanted in your ear.
- You WILL eat it, and you WILL like it!
- You won't be happy until you break that, will you?
- You'd forget your head if it wasn't attached to your shoulders!
- You'll understand when you're older.
- You're going to put your eye out with that thing!
- You're the oldest. You should know better.
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