Do you ever say something to your kids and as soon as it’s out of your mouth you realise that’s exactly what you mum and dad said to you!
That seems to be happening more often now I have kids.
I have very vivid memories of my mum telling me that I was tired (I was upset and grumpy) and I would shout back that I wasn’t tired, I was just….. Now of course whenever O is grumpy and upset and he’s not had a nap I will often tell him he’s just upset because he’s so tired. His response the same as mine was years ago, “I am NOT tired!”. I now know how my mum must have felt!
“You’ll have to wait and see” was another popular phrase from my childhood, which was frustratingly annoying, OF COURSE my parents knew whatever it was, they just weren’t telling me! Now when O asks if there are going to be toys at place we’re going (that we’ve never been to before) or if there will be a park at the place we’re going to visit (that we’ve never been to before) or if there will be buttons to press etc. etc. I will end out telling him that “we’ll have to wait and see, because I don’t know”. His response is normally, “yes you do know, mummy!!” and the repeats the question over and over. I wonder when he’ll realise that we don’t know everything?!
Of course I’ve also started hearing my words quoted back at me by my 3 year old. Nothing bad, it’s just funny to hear what I say come out of his mouth! He tells his little brother (in a sing-song mummy voice) “it’s not time for playing, it’s dinner time now, you can play after dinner” or when I dropped part of my lunch on the floor yesterday he sighed and told me “you have to pick that up mummy, food is for eating, that’s a waste!”. I may complain to him for dropping everything on the floor a little too often.
Are you turning into your mum or dad?
J x
Yup yesterday I heard myself saying to Helen ‘I don’t want you to apologise I want you to not do it in the first place’ my mum used to say that to me a lot and I never understood what she meant- until now!
Oh yes, I have a similar, inherited, phrase! So funny that we didn’t know they were saved in our heads for our own kids! 🙂 x
So true – especially when I catch myself saying ‘ Because I said so!’
I find it hilarious when I hear our children using phrases I know they’ve got from me or my husband. Our eldest is six and she’s turning into me already! 🙂
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Ha ha, it always makes me smile when O uses my words and phrases! Then he asks why I’m smiling or laughing! 🙂 xx
Ah great post! I worry about turning into my mum but sometimes I spend so long trying not to be her that I forget who I am so I have actually be taking this year so far to really work on myself and find who I am. Not that my mum is a bad one, she is great but I just like the thought of being me!!
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Yes, It’s always great to be just you, my mum’s great too, just sometimes you want the phrases we speak to be ours! 🙂
I know the feeling. I constantly hear myself say “eat your food” now when I used to hear it all the time from my mom.
Ha ha! Do you try and catch yourself when the words start coming out, I’ve started changing my words halfway through a phrase to stop sounding like my parents! 🙂
Ugh, it happens! I like to think it is because they were much smarter than we gave them credit for, not because we are just clones of them!
Yes, I hope you’re right! 🙂 x
I have definitely turned in to my mum since I became a mummy too. Little things she said or do I find myself doing or saying all the time. #TwinklyTuesday
It seems to be inevitable that we turn into our parents, doesn’t it! 🙂 x
I do it all too often and I want to kick myself every time I do it.
Ha ha, I feel the same! Just stopped myself from saying ‘hay is for horses’ when O said Hey, hey, hey mummy! 🙂
Unfortunately I have already completed the transformation with gems like: ‘It’ll end in tears.” and ‘Because I said so.” featuring strongly in my day to day vocabulary. I’m pretty sure I swore I’d never say this stuff when I was a kid.
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Ha ha, yes I didn’t want to the say them either, but I just can’t help it! 🙂 x
Haha! Yes, yes and erm.. yes! I quite like the fact that these little paraphrases are being passed down throughout the generations though! My absolute favourite — although I didn’t understand it when I was a child, when my parents said it to me — is:
Question — ‘Why?’
Answer — ‘Zed’
My mum and dad used to say it ALL the time in answer to the ‘Why’ question. It’s only when I got older that I understood it!! Haha 🙂 Thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday
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Ha ha, I hadn’t heard of that one before! Love it when you don’t understand things until you get older! 🙂 x
Perhaps it’s inevitable! And don’t forget, your children will be turning into you too… As soon as they can talk, the words that come out of their mouths are your words. Look forward to that moment when you can watch them with their own children and hear them saying all the same things 😉
Ha ha! Yes, seems strange to hear everything you say come back to you! 🙂 x
This is happening to me too! I’m not worried though – my mum did a great job with us so hoping I’m following in her footsteps! #binkylinky
My mum is great too, but so strange to hear the same words come out of my mouth! 🙂 x
yes, I think it’s funny too when they tell us things we usually tell them, and now we know how our parents felt!
I find it hard not to laugh sometimes! 🙂 x
Nothing will make a person appreciate their parents more than when you become one yourself
Definitely! 🙂
Can totally relate to this! I find myself saying things I never thought I would! Thanks for linking up to the #BinkyLinky
Hah hah 😀 Yes, I can definitely see that in myself. I am slowly turning into my own mum, both in terms of what I say, how I say it and how I look like. Especially when I am annoyed I am just like my mum. It is shocking when you realise you’ve said something that could have come out of your own mums mouth 🙂
#binkylinky
Ha ha! Yes, I often hesitate just before I say something now, realising I’m just saying exactly what my mum did! 🙂 x
I’ve been turning into my mum for years. Unfortunately, one of her favourite phrases is “because I say so, that’s why”. And of course I’m discovering that kids are excellent at mimicry! Their other favourite (of mine) is “I’ve only got one pair of hands you know!” #binkylinky
Ha ha! I can see that becoming a common one! 🙂 x
Haha I love this. We were just saying yesterday that I am slowly turning into my mum so quickly.
I was doing so well until Evie started to have tantrums & has started to prefer sweet fruit to healthy greens. Now I’m saying things like: ‘You must eat all of your greens first’.
I guess we turned out OK, so maybe it’s not always a bad thing. 😀 x
Definitely not always a bad thing, but sounds so weird when you’re realising that you’re saying exactly what your parents said to you! 🙂 x