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.
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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