One thing I wanted to note before moving on was I was surprised at how many presidents did use their mother’s name as their middle name: Ronald Wilson Reagan, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Things Mothers say to their young children
- No!
Things Mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- Go play somewhere else.
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- One!
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
- Kitty doesn’t like it when you do that to him!
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
- Kitty doesn’t like it when you do that to him!
- Because I said so; that’s why!
ETA: I don’t get number 5.
My guess is it’s the beginning of the “count-off” (kid is doing something wrong, and Mom starts counting to three. If you let her hit three, you’re in for a world of hurt. My mom used to do this–I never let her get to three, so I have no idea what would have happened.
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Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- Go play somewhere else.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
- Kitty doesn’t like it when you do that to him!
- Because I said so; that’s why!
- For the last time…
To me, it’s “mommy may I have a cookie” “Yes, you may have one” Kid takes two or three “ONE!”
Things mothers say to their young children
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- Go play somewhere else.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
- Kitty doesn’t like it when you do that to him!
- Because I said so; that’s why!
- For the last time…
- Maybe for your birthday.
Yup, a world of hurt; often involving my hindquarters and a yardstick. Other parents and more mindful children might have had a timeout or similar, nowadays.
- No!
- Didn’t you hear me the first time? I said “No!”
- Ask your father.
- Eat just one more bite of that, and you can be excused.
- Go play somewhere else.
- One!
- How many times do I have to tell you?
- I Love you!
- Kitty doesn’t like it when you do that to him!
- Because I said so; that’s why!
- For the last time…
- Maybe for your birthday.
- Five more minutes!
Next series: Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made!
- pecan cookies
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made!
- pecan cookies
- snickerdoodles
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made!
- pecan cookies
- snickerdoodles
- lemon cookies
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made!
- pecan cookies
- snickerdoodles
- lemon cookies
- Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies
One of the arly HBO Young Comedians specials (early to mid eighties ) was hosted by Reiner. Between acts he gave pieces of a recipe for a creamcheese cookie, called CRFGC. Hysterical and delicious. Ma wrote the recipe down and made them … often.
Kinds of cookies your mother/grandmother made!
- pecan cookies
- snickerdoodles
- lemon cookies
- Carl Reiner’s Fucking Good Cookies]
- oatmeal raisin cookies