One for the parents of the forum ...

[Shaun]

Do you find yourself saying things to your kids that your parents said to you?

I keep catching myself saying things to little Ms. Admin and then hearing my mum and dad's voices echoing the self-same things in my head.

Thankfully I've not fully turned into my dad; M&S slacks don't hold any interest as yet ...

 

[Moodyman]

Occasionally, but then I cringe when I realise that Isound like my mum & dad.

The leftover food on the plate is the commonest: "Do you know there's kids in Africa who'll go to sleep hungry tonight?"

 

[Archie_tect]

Oh there's time yet, don't rush these things.

Thankfully I've never uttered my dad's favourite, "Give it a rest now."

 

[Globalti]

Brush your teeth properly! You'll regret it later if you don't......

 

[User482]

My mother in law recently described our baby daughter as "over tired". I wonder how long I have before repeating the same...

 

[ColinJ]

I don't have any children, but I have noticed worrying parental tendencies creeping in ...

One winter night, I was walking back from the local shops when I heard the sound of carol singing. I came round the corner and saw that the singers were a group of atrractive young women standing in the snow outside The Shoulder of Mutton. They were wearing Santa Claus jackets, sexy red knee-length boots topped in white, and even sexier matching red thongs. I looked at them as I was walking by and was startled to hear an echo of my late father's voice in my head ...



















"They'll catch their death of cold dressed like that!"

 

[funnymummy]

As a child I rember phrases that my parenst would use, as a teeneger there were even more, I vowed i would never say things like that to my children (if I ever had any which I wasn't actulay planning on)
Flashforward a decade & one day I found myslef uttering "I don't think it's funny, do I look like i'm laughing" I thought about other things & said regualry to my son (only had #1 at the time)
The panic set in - OMG somerwhere in my late 20's I had turned into my mother!!

 

[perplexed]

Do you find yourself saying things to your kids that your parents said to you?

I keep catching myself saying things to little Ms. Admin and then hearing my mum and dad's voices echoing the self-same things in my head.

Thankfully I've not fully turned into my dad; M&S slacks don't hold any interest as yet ...

Oooh, but they do have some lovely cardigans...

 

[Silver Fox]

Nothing is new in this world, when I'm giving advice to my two lads I can hear my dad giving the same advice to me when I was their age. His favourate expression was " You can't put an old head on young shoulders" and how true that is.

 

[beanzontoast]

Whenever my daughter left her bedroom light / tv / computer on when she wasn't not in the room, I used to tell her about the poor little penguin standing on an ever-shrinking ice flow...

Heaven help me if she sees I've left a light on anywhere now she's grown up!

 

[Norm]

I wish I'd listened to what my father used to say when I was young...

 

[Bimble]

One of my dads favorites was "Do as I say not as I do".

 

[Night Train]

Someone on the radio a few weeks ago attributed this to Henry (the Fonz) Wrinkler.

'The time you realise your father was right is when you have kids who believe you are wrong.'

 

[Arch]

I wish I'd listened to what my father used to say when I was young...

Oh go on then.

<takes bait>

Why, what did he say?

 

[Archie_tect]

Arch, Norm doesn't know, cos he wasn't listening!