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!"

Op you are def NBU. It is a refrain that rings in my head every day and, try as I might to fight it I am channelling my increasingly cantankerous old mum daily. Must be all in the genes ...... And now I feel I'm losing my sequence (stop fiercely stop!)

I wouldn't have realised that I have turned into my mother had it not been for DD (who is 3) repeating back phrases that I must have been using to her unconsciously.

Last week she called me 'Young lady', and when DH asked her a question at tea time she said, 'Daddy, please concentrate on your food'.

'You'll catch your death' (to seven yr old DGD leaving house with hair still damp)

LOL!!!! The first time I said to ds ' When I call you, you come!' I has to phone my sis and confess.... She berated me, 'We promised we would never say that!'

I knew I'd turned into my mum when DS2 whinged "but he started it!" to which I replied "yes, and I'll finish it"!

Last week I also uttered the immortal words " you treat this house like a bloody hotel" - there's no hope for me is there?

Ha, just remembered another one - some boy racer flew past me and DS1 the other day going way over the speed limit, and I raised my eyebrows and said disapprovingly "he won't get there any faster..." - DS looked at me like I was an idiot!

Oh I knew I'd arrived as a mother when I said to cheeky dd "I would never speak to my mum the way you speak to me!"

Dh had been looking at bags with dd and announced "but these are all the rage"

dd looked at him like this --->

Happymm I remember telex - now that's a bad sign!

Can't believe how many of these sayings I use already myself!!
It's true...it's inevitable!!

Somehow I have managed to resist the lure of 'I will haver yer guts fer garters' and 'I'm gonna knock you into the middle of next week'

But the youngest DCs are only 3 and 18mths so plenty of time yet...

I have used the following:
'Take your coat off or else you won't feel the benefit once you're out'
'Stop telling tales'
and I also use the 'If I go in and find it there'll be trouble.'
Passing some young scantilly clad girls at a bus stop the other day 'Oooh they'll catch their death.' I actually said 'oooh' in that grandmotherly tone!
I also have the dad groan, as I suffered with a prolapsed disc and have since had a disc-ectomy, so there was and still is a lot of dad groaning going on when I heave myself up out of a chair/the car.

But I promise NEVER to utter what my now 81 year old dad said about 20 years ago when, after he asked my sister what she wanted for Christmas, he relayed the information back to my mum, 'She wants one of them there wireless and gramophone thingys for the car!'

'You're only embarrassing yourself' - as DS has a very public paddy!

lol, i asked the other day "why are those flaming kids hanging round our driveway" then i immediately thought, I have turned into my dad!!

I whinge about 'things being left at your backside, if it's not moved it's going in the bin'
and 'I won't tell you again..' over and over again

Well, I can now add "God, is it possible to ever get a moment's peace round here?", so I feel my transformation is complete.

Stop coming in and out, it's in or out pick one! Has been uttered a few times. Do have to wonder what our kids will refer to though, mp3's, dvd's and pc's maybe as being the things that mark them out as being old and from the early 2000's

'I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it'
Classic Mum.

"You make a better door than a window," to DD2.

Direct from The Mum's Handbook.

"If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about."

At this point I knew there was no hope for me.

Yes I have turned into a weird hybrid of both my parents.

I groan a lot when I get up.
I always seem to say 'ah that's better' when I take my first sip of tea.
I say 'who do you think you're talking to?' to my kids.
I say 'don't you think those thoughts about me sunshine' also to my kids.

My poor poor children.

Constantly find myself saying ' we were lucky with the weather'...

momnipotent can I steal that mumism, love it!

I also "tape" things off the TV.

I was telling a friend about a TV program and she asked what station it was on.

I had to hang my head in shame when I actually used a bit of spit to clean something off DD's face. I've only been a mother for three months!

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Ah ha - I am both of my parents

I love it when they're too small to 'get it though' [you make a better door than you do a window to a 2 yo] and they just at you

I cut coupons from the Daily Mail.

To be fair I was cutting coupons from Woman's Own 20 years ago when I was working at a job where we got hundreds of copies.

Saved me a fortune because supermarkets would take them as long as they sold the product regardless of whether you bought it.

Not sure they do that any more. Part of turning into your parents is the realisation that times change and not always for the best