Overheard (frustrated with child talking)....

[Chipperdini]

We got some interesting looks while eating in a restaurant. Apparently some of our discussion about Mom was overheard. "Mom" was our (then) cat, but one couldn't have discerned that from that particular conversation. Those people probably thought we treated dear old mother horribly...

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

My DD14 is a fast talker when she is excited about something. She would go on and on and I had no idea what she said. I would always say "Now say it again in English". We were in a store the other day and a group of Spanish speaking people were in line behind us. I told here the English phrase and they all started laughing.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I told my 5 year old she was acting like a child the other day. As the words came out of my mouth I realized how dumb I sounded. Like one of those dumb parents.

That reminds me of what I started to say about a boy on my son's baseball team. One of them supposedly put an ice cube in his mouth and then into someone elses water jog (yuck!) and I started to say how middle-schoolish that was, when I realized that the boy is in middle school. Actually, he's going to be a HS freshman, but he really will always act middle schoolish.

 

[Stitchfans]

I have a few "inside" jokes with each of my DDs

I get strange looks from people when one of my DDs say, "love you mom" and my reply is, "I love you more cause I'm cuter"

Or my oldest DD when I say to her, "what am I going to do with you?"
her reply is "throw me in the garbage?" don't remember how that one got started. But she replied with that one time while lying on a cot in ER after getting into a car accident. sure had some eyebrows raising then.

 

[DisneyPhD]

That reminds me of what I started to say about a boy on my son's baseball team. One of them supposedly put an ice cube in his mouth and then into someone elses water jog (yuck!) and I started to say how middle-schoolish that was, when I realized that the boy is in middle school. Actually, he's going to be a HS freshman, but he really will always act middle schoolish.

got to love teenage boys.

I actually was thinking "you are acting like a brat or baby" but I sensored myself and didn't say that. Still I sounded like an idiot. (Oh and she was acting like one, BTW.)

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Or my oldest DD when I say to her, "what am I going to do with you?"
her reply is "throw me in the garbage?" don't remember how that one got started. But she replied with that one time while lying on a cot in ER after getting into a car accident. sure had some eyebrows raising then.

When my DD was little she started saying that she was going to scramble someone up and throw them in the garbage, which we still repeat all these years later. Yes, if anyone overhears that they will wonder.

 

[CookieGVB]

I have a 12 year old DS who often has me commenting on my head about to explode. Doesn't even slow him down anymore.

 

[twinmomplus2new]

We use a few sayings and people always look at us as if we are nuts. I think all are from my Nana.


Stop that I will put you down cellar behind the ax.
I asked her once what it meant and she said how she she know her grandfather said it to her?

I also say Quiet theres a man dead in Chelsea,( also from my great grandfather they lived one town over from Chelsea.)


I also say I will beat you with a stick, and they say the one with the nails in it?

 

[disneymom3]

I have updated the gypsy one to telling my kids I am going to sell them on ebay. Now, we just have to be walking through a store and if they are being obnoxious I will just say "Ebay!!!" And they know what I mean.

I also use bigger fancier words with them when I am annoyed. It is my own personal form of entertainment. So, for instance, when at the store if they have gotten a warning about not straying and then they do, the deal is they have to hold onto the cart. (They hate that.) If they let go I will say, "I seem to recall that one of my offspring has been requested to be in physical contact with the shopping conveyance at all times. Said child is no longer fulfilling their duties and forthwith is going to get into VERY BIG TROUBLE!" DD and I think this is very funny. Her brothers, not so much. But then she is not the one getting in trouble so she has room to think it is funny.