Oh dear, AIBU to have turned into my mum/dad?

[Cathycomehome]

I just yelled "Turn that bloody racket down, for the love of God, this is not a disco!"

I wouldn't mind if the racket was something worth listening too, but it's BRUNO MARS! That's not a thing a person should want to listen to, let alone loudly, is it?

"That's not music! That's just beat beat beat."

I have mentioned the Hit Parade too.

I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I do the dad groan, I 'tsk' at young girls in short skirts and mutter about them getting kidney trouble, I tell my children about others in the world who are actually starving and not merely a bit hungry and I have recently taken to shouting at the telly or speaking to shudder Jeremy Vine on the radio. I am, without a shadow of a doubt, my mother.

Hit Parade!!! Hahahahaha!! That beats mine hands down. But I do also go to the video shop...

Though DH did refer to 'the wireless' a couple of weeks ago which even stopped me in my tracks.

Oh fuck, I came in from the theatre tonight pleased it was an early finish, asked for a nice cup of tea, moaned about my plates of meat and picked up some knitting.

I want shot.

My friend and I went out for night out at weekend.... We went early so we could get bus home... Realised we were basically wearing our works clothes and then topped it by.... Taking our coats as 'it'll be cold later'... Oh yep, we're proper grown ups!

Oh and db always tells me off for 'taping' stuff on my recorder box thing!

I keep referring to 'albums' which causes many a blank look from any teens present.

I am much influenced by my huge DVD collection of 'between the wars' costume dramas/classic movies/musicals so can sometimes sound a bit like a cockney Nancy Mitford which can be confusing (but fun).

I have also been working on my own psuedo street slang for years - its a mix of the real thing, stuff from when I was 'street' and totally made up rubbish.

I can embarrass my kids from 50 paces just by opening my mouth. mwah ha ha......

In response to 10 YO DDs lack of remorse for backchatting, I just accidently said '...and I thought we'd brought you up better than that'.

It's the opposite in my house
My DD (who is 21) asked ME to turn my music down and why couldn't I play some nice normal mom music
I was listening to Rammstein. Admittedly it was a bit loud

I do remember asking both of my DC's (when much younger) if they wanted a smack after a very painful trip to the supermarket. It was then that I realised they had turned me into my mother

"stop banging the kitchen doors" to h (well I did spend a very very long time installing that kitchen and it pains me to think of the damage he could do to cheap chip board)

"don't waste all the hot water," "who's left all the bloody lights on again" and "shut the door you're letting all the heat out" are also regularly heard. (to someone who claims to care for the environment ) never mind turning into my mother, I am turning into his mother.

I told DS1 today that he wasn't "too big to go over my knee." [hshock]

He is. Very much too big. And too heavy.

I have also been looking for thermal underwear for myself, but find them all a bit too low cut.

Oh yes, the lights!

"Is there somone in this room???" [silence] "No? Well, why's the bloody light on then???"

blackeyedsusan Have you used, "Were you born in a barn?" [hblush]

And I've been eye-ing up some lovely crockery 'for best'.

I've turned into my nan.

Oh no! You've now all reminded me of the shameful time when I said "Born in a barn were you?" on non shutting of door....

X post!

[hgrin]

otter, no, but my dd came home from school with that saying.
think I need to revive the "put wood int hole" saying of my dad's family.

'Look with your eyes, not with your hands'.

i found myself saying to DS (aged 5) who was crying because he couldn't find his toy story box, 'if I walk downstairs and clap eyes on the thing...' and then stopped. because what my mum used to follow that up with was 'i will belt you to kingdom come'. and there is no way i would do that to him...

so at least, in that instance, i didn't turn into my mum. because she would indeed have belted me to 'kingdom come'. i always wondered where that was... in my mind it was quite near tipperary...

No, no. Kingdom Come is much closer to Timbuktoo, I'm sure. [hconfused]

I told my charge to "be careful or she'd have someones eye out"
You can turn into your parents before you're even a parent!

I have uttered " yes well if xxxx jumped off a cliff would you do that too?"
pure Mother.

I didn't know I did "the dad groan" untill my 14MO DD has started to do it! When she gets up she says "oooooooh" then pats her back. DP helpfully pointed out she was apeing me by saying "Bloody hell I've got two of you ready for your pension now".