"Because I'm Your Mother,
That's Why"

By Marilee Tolen RN, HNC
HomeSpaLady™

These "Momisms" will bring a smile to your face - if you've heard yourself saying them or heard them from your Mom!

• Money does not grow on trees.
• Don't make that face or it'll freeze in that position.
• If I talked to my mother like you talk to me.
• Always change your underwear; you never know when you'll have an accident.
• Be careful or you'll put your eye out.
• What if everyone jumped off a cliff? Would you do it, too?
• You have enough dirt behind those ears to grow potatoes!
• Close that door! Were you born in a barn?
• If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
• Don't put that in your mouth; you don't know where it's been!
• Be careful what you wish for, it might come true.
• Don't eat those, they will stunt your growth.
• If you don't eat those, you will stunt your growth.
• What's meant to be, is meant to be.
• It doesn't matter what you accomplish, I'll always be proud of you.
• I hope that when you grow up, you have kids "Just Like You"!
• Because I'm your mother that's why.
• This is why we can't have nice things.
• If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.
• Finish your dinner, there are children starving in China
• If you fall out of that tree and break you leg , don't come running to me.
• One day your face will stay like that.
• Because I said so
• Just wait till your father gets home.
• No dessert until you finish your dinner
• I brought you into this world and I can take you OUT !!
• I've got eyes in the back of my head, that's how
• Get that thing out of your mouth! (or nose)
• Just you wait until you have kids of your own - then you'll understand
• I work all day and this is the thanks I get?
• Honestly... You'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on!
• Bored! How can you be bored? I was never bored at your age.
• Who'll end up walking, bathing and feeding it...?

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