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!

You're overtired
You'll need a coat
It'll all seem better in the moring

Who is on the bathroom?
"Nobody"
Well switch the bloody light off electrics not free you know.

Shut the door i am not heating the street!
Or
"Put the wud in the hole." Depending on which door it is.

Tidy your room fgs its a health hazzard.

Put a coat on its cold outside.
Or in rje case of one teens obsession with wearing a coat inside "Take your coat off we are going out soon and you won't feel the benefit of it."😀

If it doesnt jump up and bite you on the nose you cant find anything. MOVE STUFF!

My house my rules. When you get your own place do what you want.

Put your coat on, you’re making me feel cold

Life isn’t fair

Eat your carrots, they’ll make your eyes shine in the dark

These are great!! Better door than window is often used at my house too!!

"IM HUNNNGRY" ... "im mummy nice to meet you"

Thats because you're TIRED

It's like blackpool illuminations in here!!

You don't make the rules

Because I said so

Night night, sleep tight, see you in the morning light

"And if Jack jumped off a bridge would you do that too!?"

Yankee my mum's scariest threat was that if we didn't do our homework, she wouldn't let us do it and she would make us watch TV (and then we'd get in trouble at school). Also, if we dawdled getting ready for school, she would say she wouldn't let us go to school and we could stay home and do chores with her all day. I've found it works on my kids now too and they are very good at getting any homework done and get dressed quickly in the morning!!

I went to see the Blackpool illuminations this year and was really impressed. I expected it to be like my parents house when there were more than 2 lights on.

Life's not fair.

Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire!

I'm not angry, I'm very disappointed

@YesitsJacqueline

Jason Manford does a great sketch about his Dad and how he used to call "the Police" aka his uncle, JM has a much younger brother and has now become "the police"

Turn the bloody lights off, it's like Blackpool illuminations in here!

This isn't a hotel
It looks like a bomb site in here
Money doesn't grow on trees
Do you live in a barn?
Because I said so
Its like Blackpool illumination in here
Youre not going out dressed like that
Who do you think you're talking to?
I don't care what xxx mum says, the answer is no

If you don't ask you don't get and if you don't get you don't need!
Don't answer back

You'd better be checking that attitude!
You are not feral so stop acting like it
Take those mucky boots off before coming in here

All three were favourites of my Grandma; I wouldn't care, but they fly out and I sound just like her.

Pick stuff up...when they say they can't find whatever they're looking for
What room are you in?.....when they have left every light in the house on
There and back and stopping halfway....when they ask where we are going

"What's that, Scotch mist?"

"No food upstairs"

"If you don't xyz there will be serious trouble"

What serious trouble was was never specified we never found out but we were pretty easy goody goody kids

You make a better door than a window
Quit whilst you're ahead
Just take a telling!

My Mums favourite was "I'll come in there and play third man in a minute".

It meant my and my sis were arguing and she would come and sort It out of we didnt. DD is an only , so cannot use it with her. Anyway, DDs nearly 50, so it wouldn't work anyway...

If everyone does a little, no-one does a lot.

To get us to chip in with tidying up etc. Surprisingly socialist mantra from my mum

When DD arguing I hear myself saying

I don't care who started it, I'll finish it.

Look with your eyes not with your fingers (which I dong mind hearing my self say)
Because I said so (which I always vowed I would never say!)

Don't mind obviously, not dong!