to ask...what do you say to children that makes you sound like your own parents or guardians

[YankeeDoodleDoo]

just a little light-hearted ask

what do you say to any children you are responsible for be it your own kids, stepchildren, nieces, nephews, the kids you teach or foster, that makes you sound like your own parents/grandparents or guardians?

for me it's

1. Ii was your age once you know!
2. oh dear you have school-itis its very dangerous......the only cure is to GO TO SCHOOL!
3. if i have to come into that room there will be trouble!
4. all the tricks you think are so clever to get out of (insert relative term) I've done them and I probably did them better!

"Because I said so."

Stop waving that stick around, you'll have someone's eye out.

'When you have your own house you can make the decisions'

Two wrongs don't make a right!

We'll see (meaning not a frigging chance, mate)

If the wind changes your face will be stuck like that forever.

NB - only said to a stroppy/cross face. I'm not just being unnecessarily mean to my kids!

This is not a democracy.

The only thing that needs to be finished is the salad.

If you don't do your homework I won't let you do your homework/go to school tomorrow.

Daddy will tell you exactly the same thing (when the kids try and play us off against each other)

I don't care if everyone else is doing it. If everyone else was jumping off a cliff would you do it too?

I'm going to count to three... (and then never having to actually count!)

This isn't a cafe you know 😅

😂😂😂 oh my god I use almost all of these too!!!!

Apart from If you don't do your homework I won't let you do your homework/go to school tomorrow.

i don't understand that one straight over my head sorry @Xiaoxiong

@Handsfull13

My version of When you have your own house you can make the decisions

Is when you financially contribute to the household you can have more of a say in decisions which affect the whole house.

I find it really hard not to keep telling my nephew how tall he is. He's 16 and he's 6'4" and I still can't get used to him not being the cute little boy he was just a few years ago!

I remember when I was a child and relatives used to say "Haven't you grown?" and I used to think to myself "What a stupid comment, of course I've grown!".
I cringe when I hear myself making similar comments to children now.

Haha I always say wow they've grown when I see friends kids i haven't seen in a while and then feel very stupid

“Put your coat on”; “you’ll get cold”.

“Hurry up”.

Bored? Bored, is it? Well, I've some jobs you can do, if you're so bored.

Because I said so.
Don't you dare embarrasse me.
If you start I will kiss you in public.
Air pie and windy pudding.

I want went hungry.

You'll get square eyes from watching too much tv.

There's plenty of water in the tap ( when asking for juice or squash)

If your friend jumped off the Tyne bridge would you?

Well I'm not other people's parents.

You'll get piles if you sit on the concrete step for too long.

School days are the best days of your life

Eat your veg or no pudding

Because I said so

I'm not spending that much on a top/jeans that already has rips/holes

*delete as applicable

I'm only grateful they all live with headphones constantly attached and I don't have to listen to their shite music all the time because after 15 minutes on the car with them listening to bloody Capitol radio I turn into my dad and go on about "call this racket music?" then state they can chose the radio station when they've bought their own car.

We'll see
We're you born in a barn
I wasn't born yesterday

That's not music, that's noise...

I have completed the transition into my mother.

1. Only boring people get bored
2. I can't hear you when you're talking to me from another room
3. DON'T SLAM THE DOOR

ARE YOU IN OR ARE YOU BLOODY OUT??

Usually yelled at fishwife levels at the back of child’s head as they tear through the house yelling back that they’re JUST GETTING A DRINK!

I wants never gets
Am I speaking a foreign language?
If you're hungry have an apple
It'll all end in tears (FYI it ALWAYS ends in tears)

Only yesterday I caught myself saying “well if they jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?”

And then had to take a minute to compose myself after I’d realised the horror of what I’d done.