Sounding like your parents?

[Kia]

Have you caught yourself saying things to your children that your parents said to you? 'children in where are starving? - well it was Biafra in my day! We heard 'as long as you're under this roof..' the other day and cried with laughter. Not to mention flinging open the bedroom curtains and shouting 'shake a leg, its the best part of the day!' to the teenager who from birth wouldn't sleep longer than 2 hours for 18 months and had you on the brink of despair!! It does happen and when it does it's sheer bliss!!

I find myself saying do you want a smack?' when my son is being a complete pain. Like he's going to say yes please mummy'. I must say it more than I realise, because he's started saying `mummy smack' quite often. I wouldn't mind, except I don't smack him!

Emmam, I find myself saying that too. Not to mention "Come to your old mother who loves you", which was always a prelude to having your nails trimmed, your nose wiped, or nasty medicine administered. My mother is an ex-Dubliner so I am going to have to guard against "Jesus wept" and "Mary mother of Jesus come to my aid", both of which studded my childhood at frequent intervals...and then she has the front to claim that modern society depresses her these days because of the dreadful language!

My son has started repeating something my Mum said to me my whole childhood 'Goodness gracious me, Holy Moses had a Dog' I hasten to add, he didn't get it from me, but directly from my mum

My FIL always talks in cockney slang (even though he's part scottish) and it's obviously rubbed off on my 2 & 4 year olds. 2 year old say tit tat for hat and 4 year old said asking where daddy had gone, I expect he's gone for a ball of chalk!

My father's favourite most upsetting phrase when I was a child was "you're showing off". It is a sentance never to be used in this house and if my Dad has ever said it to my son he says to him "Grandad Mummy says you're not allowed to say that".

I am now 33 years old and my mother is not talking to me, never happened before though. Wonder if she'll apologise about the way she spoke to me like I was 'dirt on her shoe'. Don't suppose so. At least I don't rely on her for anything. But that's another story.

Popular phrases from my mother were: "You think you know it all", "I'll give you something to cry about", "Just you wait until we get home", "You'd better say your prayers". From school: "May the Lord have mercy on your soul", "God always knows", "For the love of Christ", "and to think Jesus died for you". I have asked my husband to shoot me if I ever utter any of them.

As a teacher and a parent I am unable to open my mouth without saying something scary from my child hood - the edited highlights

"get your howework done at the begining of the holiday"
"Would you jump in a fire if did it first"
"Oh he's right as ninepence" Q why is ninepence right?

My mother is now teaching my son songs that should not be inflicted on anyone, for example i know all the words to

"my Aunty Fanny by mistake put senapods in the current cake.......

Snowy can we please have all the words to "My aunt Fanny" as I am getting fed up with Good King Wenceslas and The Wheels on the Bus.

Yes please Snowy, it sounds a lot more interesting than the Wheels on the Bus!

the next line is

"and the only thing that she could do was skip to the loo my darling"

I must try and fit that to the tune on our cassette of children's songs from Mothercare! Actually, isn't it nice to have someone else to teach your children nonsense like that, while you do the serious parenting bit??

It's also a little strange when your two year old starts singing "Oklahoma where the wind goes rushing down the plane"

Other Grannys watch Bob The Builder with their grandchildren, my son is sitting with Granny watching Guys and Dolls!

I was the only 12 year old in my class who was taken to see Gone with the Wind. My cousin's little girl (when aged 6) told her teacher all about Jezebel when my mum looked after her when she was sick - its a Bette Davis movie for those of you who haven't seen it.