Mothers fibs

[Dorsetmike]

What things did your mum tell you?

The buttons on the cuff of your jackets/shirts are to stop you wiping your nose on it.

You have enough dirt behind your ears to plant spuds

If you keep puling faces, the wind will change and you'll be stuck like it.

[teddy]

You will take your eye out with that (airgun, pocket knife, piece of wood, bow and arrow etc etc)

teddy

[Krummhorn]

Mom had one particular phrase that I will never forget:

"Just wait until your Father gets home!!"

I knew I was in very deep doo-doo at that point ... and when Dad got home I would hear Mom say to Dad: "Your Son ... ... ... ... !!" Gee, now I was his Son and not hers anymore .

Next utterances heard would be Dad yelling my full baptismal name " Lars Eric . . . , come right here now!!" and then hearing his 4 inch wide leather belt being removed from his pants belt loops, I knew right then what was next ... yup ... 3 licks of his doubled over leather belt ... couldn't sit for several hours and was sent to my room without dinner.

Being sunburned on the derriere would have been much more pleasant. But, I never made that same mistake again ... a real lesson learned, and I also had a greater respect for my parents and what was right and what was wrong.

Later, Mom would feel sorry for me getting whipped and make me a sandwich and sneak it into my room.

Now then, this was the "norm" for home discipline in the early 50's (I was born in '48) and it was accepted ... nowadays, if the parents did this, they would find themselves in jail for 10 years and the kids never learning a lesson about behaviour.

That old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child" had lots of merit in my youthful days. Parents currently "reward" bad behaviour by giving 7 year olds mobile phones now. How times have changed.

Lars

[marval]

I was always told, "If you eat your crusts your hair will go curly."

I was also told about pulling faces and the wind changing.


Margaret

[Contratrombone64]

@Lars - that was my reality, as a child too. I'm afraid to say, it was child abuse. It took me until I was 16 to stand up to my bullying father and tell him to "have sex and travel" when he went to hit me, he stoped then.

[smudgedude]

carrots will give you perfect vision

[Krummhorn]

@Lars - that was my reality, as a child too. I'm afraid to say, it was child abuse.

Well, in my youthful years, it was never considered abuse ... spare the rod, spoil the child was the accepted attitude.
Spanking in public schools was also done, and accepted ... many times walking past the principals office one would hear the school bully bawling his eyes out.

I remember the "carrot" saying too ... except it was "vegetables" ... I ate lots of veggies, but still started to wear corrective lenses at age 12.

[Mat]

If you drink too much fizzy drinks, you'll get frogs in your belly;

You won't leave the kitchen untill you finish your meal;

And the famous:

Wait till your father gets home.

Oddly enough, I can't remember any more right now...

My Father used to smack me on the head when I did something wrong, but he never used the belt. I did use to get grounded instead.