PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Sound familiar to anyone else?


Most of our generation of 60+ were
HOME SCHOOLED in many ways:


1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.

"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.."


2. My mother taught me RELIGION.

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."


3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL.

"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"


4. My father taught me LOGIC.

" Because I said so, that's why."


5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC

"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.

"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."


7. My father taught me IRONY.

"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."


8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.

"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."


9 My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.

"Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"


10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.

"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."


11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.

"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."


12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.

"If I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"


13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out..."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION .

"Stop acting like your father!"


15. My mother taught me about ENVY.

"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.

"Just wait until we get home."


17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.

"You are going to get it from your father when you get home!"


18 . My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.

"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."


19. My mother taught me ESP.

"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"


20. My father taught me HUMOR.

"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand.

25. My father taught me about JUSTICE .
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Lived it! It's come full circle!

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Great stuff.

Justsss Loc: Wisconsin

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Hadn't thought about those famous words in over 50 years.

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Heard them all growing up great times !

Parents O how I miss them both !

boatbob2

I remember all of them,How true they were (mostly)

GmanTerry

How did you manage to record my parents when tape recorders were't invented yet?

Semper Fi

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Haha! I am convinced they were all part of a secret society, and these phrases were passed down from one generation of members to the next.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

"Mind reading alien...like my dad" is how Crichton put it in the sci-fi Farscape.

badbobby Loc: texas

your mom seemed to have a lot more wisdom than your dad--lol
i like # 15 a whole lot