to be irritared that at the age of 45........

[DillyDaydreaming]

... my dear Mum still grabs my hand if we cross a road together.. Funnily enough am sure I mastered this at 7 but evidently Mum thinks otherwise.

I love my Mum [smile} - she's wonderful. Just makes me laugh - the "holding my hand to cross the road" must be a mother thing I think.

my mum still fusses over whether I have a coat or not and when I was going to pop out to the car when we were having lunch she asked if I'd be ok on my own - at 35 I think I can manage but I'm sure I will do the same when mine are grown!

Me too!

My friend (32) did this the other day
She was very , but is not used to being without her 3yo!

My mam does this too!

I'm blind in one eye, so I do have an approximately 20 square meter blind spot on one side which explains why she does it I think

She did it to me, I mean!

My Mum still does it too, and the arm across me thing every time we are in the car and she has to break. And it's always her that drives, she can't get her head around the fact that I drive, even though I've has a license for ten years and drive her gc around every day.

Whenever I give my Dad a lift from his house into town (house that he's lived in for 25 years now, and where I lived too between the ages of 9 and 20), he insists on giving me directions as if I don't have a clue where to go.

It's a five minute drive.

It drives me INSANE.

My mum gets nervous when Im in the kitchen with a sharp knife too. I am also 45...

my mum will tightly grab my arm if i stand close to a road.

so hard it bruises.

My dad held my hand loads of times in London at half term: "These are busy roads, Catkin!"
He had my son "The Samster" clutched by the other hand.

Couldn't bring myself to tell him I had crossed that same road unaided many times whilst drunk

So. A man in his mid sixties clutching the hands of a pre teen and a woman of thirty...whatever happened to helping old people across the road?!

If Mum is driving and I'm out with her, she'll fling her arm across my chest/stomach if she has to break sharply. I think it goes back to the days when no one really wore seat belts in cars.

Quite why she finds it necessary to let her skinny arm compete with my seat belt and wind me in the process, I don't know.

And my Mum always feels the need to give me a complete inventory of the kitchen, if I'm ever home alone at theirs for longer than about 2 seconds.

"Now there's milk in the fridge, bread in the bread bin, coffee in the coffee tin... etc etc etc etc etc..."

my lovely Dad gave me a hand towel for Christmas recently. He told me he wanted to get me a bath towel but was worried I might trip up on it's length and fall down the stairs...or set fire to myself when getting dry by the fire.

Oops - crossed posts with so many people - I type too slowly!

aw my mum died years ago and now your op has made me all depressed

It's because too many of us have parents that are bonkers HappyCapy!

and sorry for you though south

My dad still gives me 'holiday money' to get myself a little treat when I'm away.

My mum does the fridge inventory thing but then I've noticed that I do it to DH and the au pair whenever I'm not going to be here unexpectedly, they both live here so it's a bit superfluous.

LMAO at holiday money, that's so lovely.

I did this to a colleague - he's 46! And we're really not on hand holding terms

my dad wouldn't let me cross the road without him in Malaysia (stopover trip on way to Australia for my brother's wedding) not exactly care about my wellbeing..more, 'if anything happens it would affect your brother's big day'

( i was 36)

me too SEA.

Lovely stories though.

I missed my mum terribly whilst I lived abroad. It tore my heart out if I was honest.

My mum still buys me knickers every Xmas! :) She turns up out of the blue when I might need an extra hand. It's taken me 3 kids to appreciate my mum's mum qualities. x