When I was young, my mom used the phrase “This hurts me more than it hurts you,” more than once. I could never wrap my brain around that statement and remember wondering how it could possibly be true because I was feeling actual pain! Mind you, I was rarely hit, but the very few times I was disciplined, it crossed my mind.
As adults, my brothers and I have mentioned this to our mom, in a laughing and non-complaining manner. We’ve done so in those conversations where we all get together and reminisce about our childhoods. I remember the first time we mentioned this particular statement to her, she reacted by apologizing and saying that sometimes you just don’t realize what you say as a parent.
These types of memories from my own childhood and conversations with my mom led me to say that I would never utter similar words to my children when I became a mother myself. Think that worked out well? Here are seven phrases I never imagined I’d say as a mom, but that unfortunately, I’ve had the displeasure of saying.
7 Things I Never Thought I’d Say as a Mother
- Stop licking your toes!
- Also, don’t lick your brother’s toes!
- Because I said so…
- I don’t care, just do it!
- When I was your age…
- I swear…you kids are going to kill me!
- Seriously? SERIOUSLY??!!!
As a parent, have you found yourself saying things you never thought you would? Please share them in the comments below! I’d love to hear them!
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I recently told my teen…’You won’t understand this until you’re older…” and I meant it, but as soon as I said it, I internally groaned because it is suuuuch a mom thing to say.
We’re becoming our own mothers! LOL
I so relate to the post. Embarrassing how many “When I was your age”… i use now!
Isn’t it, though?! We SWORE we wouldn’t say these things.
Oh, “¡Porque yo lo digo!” has turned into “cause I say so!” in our home too. I was full of good intentions, ready to explain my reasons and not become the dictator I thought my mom was in my childhood. But there is no reasoning with a stubborn child and no point in explaining “why” on the most minute things. So, yeah… so long good intentions. Sometimes a benevolent dictator is not such a bad thing. 🙂
You raise a great point. Sometimes, reasoning and explaining has no place, especially when children are pushing your buttons on purpose.
When my son was crying for no reason, I told him to stop or I would give him a reason to cry!!
LOL My husband likes to say this. I don’t say it myself, but remember being told it by my own mom.