Things your parents said to you - you swore you'd never say to yours

[jomist]

If the wind changes your face will stay like that.

There are children starving in Africa who would be glad of that meal.

How many times to I have to tell you....

When you fall off and break both your legs, don't come running to me....

Just hold still, while I (spit) get this dirt off your face

Turn that music down

That music is crap.

and "do you call that music? you can't understand the words"

"Ask your father..." (cop out!)

"We'll see..." (another cop out!)

"Don't do as I do, do as I tell you.." (totally senseless and irrational)

Because I said so

Am I speaking French (when selective listening occurs!)

You'll catch your death dressed like that

I remember this the first time round

'Whats for tea'...'wait and see'!

When you couldn't sleep

Count sheep

These are some of the exchanges I never thought I would repeat ..

'It's not fair'.
'Well, life isn't fair',

'Why is there a mother's day and a father's day but no children's day?'

can you guess?

'Every day is children's day'.

Every time I say something crap like this a little something dies in me.

when i said "why cant i.....?"

they said "because."

"but why?"

"just because"

Kiss grandma and don't pull a face.

You wait 'til your father gets home.

you have such a loud rough edged voice....you should talk gently and softly like velvet.

calling me 'the human dustbin' when i finished my sisters leftovers.

buying me a 'mr uppity' cup as that is who i was and also comparing me to 'mr noisy' and 'mr bossy'.

It's buTTer, not bu er (no idea how to type butter without t being pronouced...

Lifes not fair (it's not fair strop)

Just because (I really did think that I would never say this, as used to be one of my pets hates when I heard another parents say it).. Now DD is 3 I understand why they say it, after about 30 whys already this week..

Take your coat/jumper off, you won't feel the warmth when you go out otherwise ....

and i don't say anything of the sort to ds...

You were a mistake - I wish I'd never had you !

When you've got a house of your own I'm going to come round and put my feet on your table.

ooops I read the thread incorrectly...

I thought it said things you swore you wouldn't say but yoy have....

"You stupid, dirty, lazy little bugger"

"You've never brought me anything but heartache"

"You're just like you're f**king father"

"I don't think you're a disturbed child, you're just bloody manipulative" (teacher had used the phrase 'disturbed child')

"The worst thing that could have happened to me - a LIAR for a daughter"

"Because of your selfish attention-seeking, they wouldn't even look at us now if we wanted to adopt another child" (following being sent home from boarding school after wrist-slashing incident)

Yep, I'm clean so far!! But they are only toddlers, so there's plenty of time

Sorry, I can never resist these threads

ooops, I thought that too heifer....

Greensleeves

'If you don't behave, you'll get the wooden spoon.' Have never ever used it on my kids, my mum did actually said 2 weeks ago that I should use the spoon I told her that in no uncertain terms would I ever use the spoon, no matter how badly behave they are.

"Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry for"

I haven't actually said that to mine yet, but I have said "because I said so" on many an occasion.

you add nothing to this family

you were never wanted

get that stud out of your nose, or i f**king rip it out (i was 16)

Needless to say, they shall never be uttered in my house.

"If you are a quarter as good a person as I am, I'll be surprised."

"God, you bore me."

"I love you, but I don't like you."

"You're just like aunty x, who committed suicide because she was INADEQUATE!"

"You're crap, your sister is crap, your brother is crap, and I wish I had never had you."

hmm. I have not yet said any of those things!

'You'll have someone's eye out with that'.