Awww no. I've turned into my dad. Burst into DD's room at 7.30 this morning and announced it was 8am

[Thefuckingjoys]

I've been so good at not commenting on any of the outfits but this came as a shock.

In the 1990s, there was this wonderful TV Film "Eskimo Day" with Maureen Lipman, about some teenagers having their interviews at Cambridge, and their parents suddenly realising their children were growing up. Some lines were:

Son: "You'll get sick reading in the car."
Mum: "Will I?!"
Son: "So you told me on every car journey. How is it you suddenly don't know?"

Extremely overbearing father, who's wanted his daughter to attend Cambridge since babyhood: "Word from the wise, be yourself."
Daughter: "How the hell do I do that? We've never had the practice!"
Father (genuinely confused): "What does she mean?"

It also had Alec Guinness as a retired professor, undergoing the indignity of his middle-aged son trying to get him into sheltered accommodation. He said "Ask me why children turn their parents into children."

"The kitchen looks like a bomb's hit it!" is a phrase that has sometimes passed my lips.

It’s like Blackpool illuminations in here/ are the planes coming in to land?
It’s not cold, put a jumper on
I also have a growing bank of ‘when I was your age...’ phrases.

I have said these to my DH if he's having a childish moan, and has reluctantly agreed to a really obvious solution:
"Right! Problem solved!!!!!!"
"Now we're getting somewhere!!!!!!"

A nice phrase I repeated to my niece was: "time to hide your birthday eyes away". My mum would say this before blindfolding me for a birthday surprise.

Were you born in a barn? (about a door being left open after the last one in has gone through it)
If I have to come up there and I find it... (unspecified threat in response to ”it's not there”)
Take your coat off so you'll feel the benefit. (of it when you go back out again)