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- I don't care who has one. You're not getting one.
- You learned that from your father/mother.
-
You've pulled on that shirt so much it looks like a dress!
- You
found a mud puddle didn't you? - Simmer down!
- Oh, for crying in a bucket!
- That
coffee table was not made for you to rub your feet on.
- Now what
are you going to do with it? [Usually said after you broke something or messed
it up.] - You need that like you need a hole in the head.
- Take your hat off in the house!
- Eat it or wear it!
-
What's the matter with you anyway?
- How would you like to write an
essay on being kind to your brother/sister?
- Stop shaking your leg!
- Nobody asked you.
- If you don't pick that up, you might get
to sleep with it.
- I'll nag you if I feel like it, you're my son/daughter.
- If I had wanted you to do that, I would have told you to.
-
You've been playing with my pen, haven't you?
- I'm going to give you
until the count of three.
- Don't pick, it'll get infected.
- I don't want to hear that again.
- Not another word out of you!
- What? You want more money?
- If you do that one more time, I'll _____ ____.
- When you
don't listen to your Mom, that's when you get into trouble.
- Someday
your face will freeze like that!
- What if everyone jumped off a cliff?
Would you do it, too?
- Look at me when I'm talking to you.
- You're going to put your eye out with that thing!
- Do you think
your socks are going to pick themselves up?
- Your father is going
to hear about this when HE gets home!
- How many times do I have to
tell you...don't throw things in the house!
- Were you born in a barn?
Close the door -- and DON'T slam it!
- Don't EVER let me catch you
doing that again!
- Move it or loose it.
- Be good -- and
don't do ANYTHING to embarrass your parents.
- No child of MINE would
do something like that.
- You'll never live to see sixteen!!
- There's someone either dying or being created under your bed--look at all
this dust!
- Eat your meat.
- Did you flush?
-
I worry about you.
- Can you give me an itinerary for your trip?
- I hate having you drive alone at night.
- You don't WANT to
clean your room? You don't have to Want to! - A man who plays
when he should be working will never amount to much.
- There's enough
dirt in those ears to grow potatoes!
- What would you do if I wasn't
here? - Work first, and then play.
- Somebody's gonna end
up crying. - AFTER you pick up your room, make your bed,
brush your teeth and comb your hair, THEN you can go out to play.
-
Don't say SHUT UP!
- Close your mouth when you're chewing -- you look
like a cow!
- I don't care what "everyone" is doing, I care what YOU
are doing!
- What will the neighbors think?
- Who do you
think you are?
- When I was a little girl ...
- When I was
a boy... - Do I have to send you an engraved invitation? Come eat!
- Two wrongs do not make a right.
- Don't talk with
food in your mouth!
- I wish you kids could see videos of yourselves eating!
- How are things in your little life?
- Don't leave any crumbs
on the counter!
- Do I embarrass you?
- If you slouch like
that, you'll get a hump in your back.
- You can pick your friends,
but you can't pick your relatives.
- Sit like a lady!
-
When are you going to take your bath?
- I don't care if Jimmy's Mom said yes.
- Wipe your feet!!
- Go ask your father.
- What did your mother say?
-
Wrong, there's plenty of things to do, like clean your room.
- Enough
is enough!
- It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
- I'm tired of seeing you do that.
- Whose shoes are these!?
- I don't care if your brother told you to do it. You
don't have to do everything he says. - I wasn't born yesterday.
- Eat over the table.
-
You are being obnoxious.
- How many
times do I have to tell you...
- When was the last time you took
a shower?
- Slow down.
- Park yourself.
- You
are going to clean this room up before you go to bed.
- You know that isn't true. |
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Because I love you, that's why.
- So you want to slam the door do you?
I'll give you a chance. You just slam it ten time for me now. 1.....2.....3.....It's
not so fun now, is it? 4.....5..... - If you want to rough house,
go outside! (Which is an oxymoron.) - You certainly do amuse you.
- You'll live
to regret that. - How many times do I have to tell you!? GET UP!
-
You look like an Indian in war paint. - If God had intended you to
wear pierced earrings, He would have made you with holes in your ears.
- Where did you hear that word?!
- Don't interrupt.
-
Can I talk now?
- Oh, you think so do you?
- Go wash your hands. And use soap.
- We paid good
money for those shoes, you stop working them over like that.
-
Do you see that girl? You are never going to marry a girl like
that!
- Oh no you are not going to bring that in here!
- I thought I told you to pick this up!
- "I can't" never could do anything.
- You better quit while you're ahead.
- Don't tell me you didn't
do it; nobody else could
have.
- That looks
terrible! Go change your clothes!
- I wish you'd...
- "I don't know" is NOT an answer.
- Don't
put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been.
-
If you don't do it now, then when are you going to do it?
-
Only boring people get bored.
- What do you mean you aren't
going to eat everything on your plate?
- Think of those
poor starving children in India. [ To which Johnny answers, "Fine, send my spinach
to them." ] - You can't find it? Well, where
did you leave it last?
- If bologna was a tin horn you'd
have an orchestra!
- Money does NOT grow on trees.
- I'm not everyone else's parents and you're not everyone else!
- Five minutes of pleasure is not worth a lifetime of trouble.
- This hurts me more
than it hurts you.
- Don't make me tell you again.
- You made your bed, now lie in it.
- Stop your crying before I give you something to cry about.
- Don't go out with a wet head, you'll catch cold.
- I'm not going to tell you how to spell that when you can look it up in the
dictionary.
- Life isn't fair.
- Would
you do that if the Queen were here?
- Because nagging is
what I do best.
- Did you iron that?
- I don't THINK soo...!!
- Don't use that tone
with me!
- Look it up in your contract: I'm the Mom, you're
the kid. I get to do the nagging.
- What do you mean carry
me? I carried you for nine months!
- I'm not here to entertain
you.
- Am I talking to a brick wall?
- Eat those carrots, they're good for your eyesight. You never see rabbits
wearing glasses, do you?
- You had better wipe that smile
off your face before I do it for you.
- There's no shame
in being poor, but there is shame in being dirty!
- Speak up; I can't hear your head rattle.
- Never leave
the house hungry.
- Eat the crust of your bread. It's good
food.
- I resign!
- Who told you that?!
- Remember who you are.
- The acorn doesn't
fall far from the tree.
- Act your age, but don't crawl.
- You just have big bones.
- But you have
a beautiful complexion.
- Well, of all the stupid things!
- You must get that from your father's side of the family.
- I would have never talked to MY mother like that!
- If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
- Fools' names and fools' faces often appear in public places.
[After seeing a little boy following his older brother's example, my
grandpa added, "And the little squirts who don't know better
follow the fools to the letter."] - I hope someday
you have children just like you.
- I am going to have the
last word!
- This, too, shall pass.
-
I don't know why you turned out the way you have.
- Wear
clean underwear in case you get in a car wreck and have to go to the hospital.
- If you'd open your eyes as wide as your mouth, you'd find
what you're looking for.
- Pretty is as pretty does.
- I'm not just talking to hear my own voice.
- Shut your mouth and eat. [This poses a problem. :-) ]
- Somebody's room needs some attention.
- Daddy doesn't
think your oatmeal is funny all over his shirt.
- Did grandma
get you ice cream again and spoil your supper?
- Go tell Daddy he wants you.
- Because I said so, that's
why.
- If you don't quit that, you're going the eat at the
kitchen counter by yourself.
- I wish you could see
yourself doing that!
- How ya doin' there? (Usually
said after a small mishap.)
- This is your
last chance.
- Don't sneeze like that. You'll blow
your eardrums out.
- Did you change your underwear?
- Chew your food before you swallow it.
- That's enough.
You don't know what you're talking about.
- I've heard that excuse
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