[Guest]

Since I am not a parent myself, I feel I am in an ideal position to observe the actions of parents, and where they seem to go wrong, and I have noticed that on the whole, parents seem to have things backwards...

They spend the first months of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk, then spend years trying to tell the kid to sit down and be quiet

They teach the child to tell the time from the hands on a clock, then, when the child has mastered this act, they buy the kid a digital watch.

Plus, the things parents say to kids just don't make sense half the time

'If you fall and break both your legs don't come running to me'

'Children are meant to be seen and not heard, now get out of my sight'

'I don't want to hear another word from you, now what happened?'

Think about this, think also about your childhood, and think how many phrases you heard, which, when you look back on them now, just don't make any sense at all, if you are a parent, think about some of the things you say to your children, and how many of those just don't make sense when you think about them. You will see I have a point.

[Guest]

I like the good old "Because I said so."

The reason for everything.

[Guest]

"Come on - GET OFF" is one of my favs and "You've put your shoes on the wrong feet" one day a child is gonna say but these are the only feet I have!

[Guest]

I like the good old "Because I said so."

The reason for everything.

I can definitely relate to that one

[Guest]

'If you fall and break both your legs don't come running to me'

'Children are meant to be seen and not heard, now get out of my sight'

'I don't want to hear another word from you, now what happened?'

crazy. they say that? my mom's too smart for that.

[Guest]

My mom doesn't say the last two....

[Guest]

Yeah, i've never actually heard a parent say anything like those, but I bet there are some that do.

[akaslickster]

My teacher was pulling down a map one day(30 years ago) and, I never forgot it almost fell on her head, and I was the only one in class to laugh out loud. Man oh man, did I get the slap across the face after being told that I had as much sense as an animal.

[Guest]

my mom's waaaay too smart to say anything like that. she just uses a wooden spoon. which recently broke in two on my elbow.