Mom-isms, Dad-isms, or Other People-isms (Positive Ones Please)

[Robyn]

My mom was good at these. Some made sense, some didn't until later, some never did at all.:

• A whistling woman and a crowing hen, always come to no good end. (This harkened back to her youth, a girl was supposed to act like a lady, and a lady doesn't whistle, a man does.)
• Don't put yourself down. There are plenty of other people in this world who will do it for you. Don't listen to them either.
  
• If it snows like meal, you'll get a great deal. (Not always true, but I've always enjoyed repeating that one when it snows.)
• You can do just about anything a man can do. Don't let anyone stop you from trying. (Somewhat of a contrast from the first one, don't you think?)
• Stand up straight, there's nothing on the ground except dirt. (This she would follow up with a gentle nudge between my shoulder blades. I've had complete strangers tell me that I have excellent posture. I work in a hospital, one volunteer even approached me once, thinking I might have been a doctor!)

That's a few of them...she was a good woman and I miss her terribly. Incidently, to those of you with agoraphobia (sp?) -- she suffered from it when I was in my late teens. She used to force herself to leave the house (I drove her) and go to stores and just walk around for an hour or two every day or out to eat, until she began to overcome it.

This happened not to long after my father died. Also, another thought...she had bad psorisis (sp?) too...when he died, it completely went away. If she and Dad had any marital stress...I never knew it. But, after he died and the psorisis cleared up...I kind of put the two together somehow. Interesting, huh?

Random thoughts from a sleepy mind.

HUGS to all,
I hope you like the thread...
Robyn

 

[Robyn]

PS I've changed my Avatar

I hope nobody minds. It is a visual reputation of mine and DH's marriage prior to the PTSD diagnosis. It's a visual goal for me to try and be a better carer and less of an enabler.

CRAP...it didn't change. Oh well, I'll have to try again another time.

 

[Robyn]

I hope nobody minds. It is a visual reputation of mine and DH's marriage prior to the PTSD diagnosis. It's a visual goal for me to try and be a better carer and less of an enabler.

CRAP...it didn't change. Oh well, I'll have to try again another time.

<sheepish> Um...nevermind...it was the profile picture I changed :doh:It won't let me use my own personal avatar. :dontknow:

HUGS
Robyn

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

Thanks for sharing those words of wisdom from your mother. I always enjoy reading about the positive experiences the members have/had with their parents, because it's few and far between in here. I'm not complaining because I understand a lot of members were abuse by their parents, but for some reason it upsets me????

 

[Irton Pike]

"see all, 'ear all, say nowt,
eyt all, sup all, pay nowt,
an' if ever tha' does owt for nowt,
mek sure tha' does it for thissen."

or

‘Hear all, see all, say now't,
tak' all, keep all, gie now't,
and if tha ever does ow't for now't do it for thysen.’

And my dad always says

"never eat yellow snow"

 

[Mercy]

From my Dad: "You have to deal with the cards that life gives you."

"Do your best at whatever you try."
That one didn't work out so well for me but it made try to be a very good little hooker.

"Watch the clouds and you will always know the weather."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away"

He told the funniest story to my brother and me when we were in elementary school about his being in second grade. He said he had spent a nice long time in the orchard picking out the perfect apple for his teacher. He found just the right one and polished it all up took, it to school and carefully set it down on her desk. He said he kept smiling all morning waiting for lunch time. But when the teacher got to the apple, she screamed and tossed it up in the air. My father couldn't understand it. He had picked the apple that had the cutest little worm in it. We just laughed and laughed. He had told the story totally straight faced. I still smile.:rofl:

 

[midi]

If you're feeling a little bit ill or sad, trying brushing your teeth--the minty taste will cheer you up! -my mother's nurse friend, who used to babysit us.

 

[Robyn]

Another one...

Can't never could do nothing!

 

[Seeking_Nirvana]

My dad's favorite quote was "Things aren't always as they seem" (or the way I perceived them to be).

Shuck out the negativity.

There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.

When my husband totally devastated me and I felt that he had taken everything and left me with nothing. My dad told me to just sit back and watch and someone will coma along and "knock the wind out of his sails" That did comfort me a bit at the time.

Tammy

 

[cragger65]

My parents didn't leave me with a lot of quotes, but I do collect my own. I like this one.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you really are.
~ Chinese Proverb ~

 

[Irton Pike]

Another one from my old man,

"Confucious say, man who pees into wind, gets his own back"


And

"Tha can allus tell a yorkshireman, but tha can't tell 'im much"