These familiar sayings have somehow been handed down from mother to daughter right through the ages. How many of these did you grow up with?
"Who do you think you are?"
"Ask your father." (Often closely followed by, "Ask your mother.")
"Bored? How can you be bored? I was never bored at your age."
"I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like an adult!"
"Look at me when I'm talking to you."
"Don't you roll your eyes at me!"
"Don't pick at it, it'll get infected."
"I don't care if (insert child's name here) mom said yes, you're not going."
"You'll put your eye out with that thing!"
"I'm going to give you to the count of three..."
"Don't put that thing in your mouth, you don't know where it's been."
"Wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident and have to go to hospital."
"Don't cross your eyes like that; one day they'll freeze that way."
"I don't care who started it, I'll finish it!"
"Don't ever let me catch you doing that again!"
"Why? Because I said so, that's why!"
"If such and such jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?"
"If I catch you doing that one more time, I'll..."
"Your father is going to hear about this when he gets home!"
"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
"How many times do I have to tell you, don't throw things in the house!"
"Do you think your clothes are going to pick themselves up?"
"'I don't know' is not an answer!"
...and last but not least,
"I hope someday you'll have a child exactly like you were."
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