1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL .
"If you don't straighten up, I' m going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
" Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC ..
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER .
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14.My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"You don't have to like it, you jus t have to do it."

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do "

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until your father gets home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know whe n you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
"If you don't eat your vegetables , you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.

Doesn't it feel, sometimes, like we were all raised by the same beloved mom? And I heard her in my voice many times when AJ was growing up ... it must be genetic, or infectious

I guess we all say the same things and as kids heard the same things. Thanks TPM, good list for some laughs. I always wonder how people dream these things up.

I can remember very clearly busting out in laughter the first time I said "Because I said so!". I had to call my mom and tell her that I had officially turned into her! I sure miss my mom...I find I'm more like her every day. Sometime when I laugh, I can hear her laugh.

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Sometime when I laugh, I can hear her laugh

When I was a kid, and went to the movies with my mom, her laugh ... a wonderful boisterous enjoying-it-all kind of laugh ... used to embarass the daylights out of me. And guess what ... yep, you got it ... mine sounds just like hers, too.

When I turned 40 oh so many years ago, hubby gave me a coffee mug with a cartoonish female on it, with the expression: "It's official. I've become my mother." Fortunately Mom thought it was about the age, but hubby and I both know exactly what he meant ... and I had to agree with him.

I miss my mom too.