1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
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"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I have just finished cleaning."
2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
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"You'd better pray that will come out of the carpet."
3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
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"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
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4. My father taught me LOGIC.
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"Because I said so, that's why."
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
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"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
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"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
7. My father taught me IRONY.
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"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
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"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
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"Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
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"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
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"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
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"If I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"
13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
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"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out..."
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION ..
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"Stop acting like your father!"
15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
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"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
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"Just wait until we get home."
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
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"You are going to get it from your father when you get home!"
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
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"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."
19. My mother taught me ESP.
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"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
20. My father taught me HUMOUR.
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"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
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"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
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"You're just like your father."
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
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"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
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"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.
25. My father taught me about JUSTICE .
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"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"
This might only be understood by the over 50s because the younger ones would not believe we were told these "EXACT" words by our parents.
Familiar ? Any others to add to the list ?
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Pinched from the Yanks! O:-)
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>> Pinched from the Yanks! O:-)
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But applies this side of the pond ?
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Worked with a good dozen young people over the last four years, I can report that in general the future of the nation is in safe hands, decent, well educated and high moral standards...
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Absolutely spot on. We generally only hear about the ones who step out of line.
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>> >> Pinched from the Yanks! O:-)
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>> But applies this side of the pond ?
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You can't start a sentence with but.
BUT you must say, applies TO this side of the pond. O:-)
Regards,
Fluffier.
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The old ones are still the best ones....:-)
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To take Henry's post slightly more seriously, it certainly seems true to me that my memories of childhood (the sixties) were very much "do as you're told, keep quiet, don't be nuisance, you get what you get given, speak when spoken to, don't interrupt an adult."
Today's kids (some of my nieces and nephews now have kids of their own) seem to have from the age of three conversations like "what would you like, darling, fishfingers or beans, how about tomatoes, no, well what about some mushrooms, oh dear, how about..." and it just goes on and on and on into every area of life. We just got given a pig's heart on a plate and told that was your tea, and you jolly well ate it too.
Kids seem to me to be viewed now more as mini adults and expected to make useful contributions and enter discussion about absolutely everything whereas I think we were part of the family and a nuisance to be put up with, but we had rules and you knew where you were.
Maybe it was just my upbringing.
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I expect so.
We debated everything, argued about reasons for doing things, tore poor arguments apart, were brought up to be intellectually rigorous.
We weren't allowed to have food fads though. We could each register one official savoury and one sweet we were allowed to hate, and were then excused them.
Mine were liver, and tinned pineapple - both made me throw up.
There were rules at school of course - thats what schools were for. But I've kicked them out of my life since, and our own three have never been to school. Home schooled in the true meaning of the expression.
When I see teachers out leading groups of children, talking down to them in that special irritating voice most grown-ups affect when speaking to children, I cringe and feel so sorry for the children.
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MD has signed himself 'Fluffer'.
Is this a clue to an answer to an abiding mystery? I'm sure we won't be told.
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Fluffier rather than "fluffer" I think.
Unless he works part time in the porn industry. The mind boggles.
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My mother always insisted shoes off when entering our house.The old man had his own chair and we didn't use it.Don't interrupt the adults when they where talking.
We use to have big debates about everything when we had our food all sat at the table.You had to shout loud to be heard my sister usually took over.My mate next door Nico his aunty had the first Television we used to go to her house.
Used to have regular fights with my brother and my mother told us to sort it out outside which we did.He used to wind me up I problaby did him.
To much information these days.Most of the kids I knew left school early and went to work.I got a Apprenticeship which did help me working in the UK.
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>> Fluffier rather than "fluffer" I think.
So it is. The type is very small on my laptop.
Meals were more informal with just us and the parents. If anyone else was present though, we were expected to behave politely, sit up straight and speak when spoken to or encouraged and given permission.
Still like that with a lot of families I think.
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Most of the 50++ generation were HOME SCHOOLED - MD
