Momma Said
I was thinking about all of the things parents tell their kids when they are little. Sometimes, the truth is tweaked a little just to get a kid to stop a disgusting habit. My Dad used to tell me that if I popped a blister, then it would get infected. The infection would lead to gangrene and ultimately amputation. That story once scared me so bad I cried. He also told me that a yellow jacket nest outside the back porch door was actually killer bees. I wouldn't use that door all summer long.
What wild tales did your parents tell you?
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the best line in that article - RE: pregnant women having sex - "talk to your doctor before getting busy."
i think dan should be pushed one slot up on the perv list, hes BAD NEWS!
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i like better what we used to tell our younger brothers. that we bought them at kmart and they really weren't part of the family. and when mike had chicken pox we told him it meant his nose was going to become a beak and he would slowly turn into a chicken. that one made him cry. oh man, power is great.
the kids on the bus told me if you flipped your eyelids and then someone blew on them, they would stick like that.
I know this girl (on ezabel) who told us when she was really little, the following: "my daddy says, if you stick your finger up your nose, it makes you fart". Oh, it was so funny, and it became a family favorite quote for several years!
my mom said.. " if you dont stop nursing already you're gonna grow up to be a weirdo "
Ew, that's so gross. At work that topic managed to work it's way into our staff meeting. Someone's sister nursed till her kids were 4. I've also heard of ppl going till 6. Bleck.
my sister did that...one of the society's magazines said that breastfed children are smarter.
yeah, i've heard that too...but does it say that its best to do it that old?? those kids have teeth yo.
Ah but it's also good birth control!
Yeah, I learned we learned about the hormones stimulated with nursing in my Anatomy class. I know its been proven to be beneficial. I just think 4 is old. But hey, if you don't mind, go for it.
Oh no 4 year's old is totally disgusting, I agree. We were watching a comedian once and he was talking about his son and how at first it didn't bother him (breast feeding) but after a few months it's like "hey..there's a dude there" and when he walked into the room it'd be all awkward and his son would be grinning at him.
Hahahaha...ew, that is so messed up.
hahahaha..just look @ where your mind is...(although your right...& it's free)
yeah, well...i was at a gathering recently and a sister with her baby sat in a chair kinda near me, threw a blanket over her chest and began nursing! not a big deal really. BUT THEN SHE STARTED TALKING TO ME! and it was a little hard to concentrate and..encunciate. i think i pulled it off well even if i felt a lil funny.
i love when women do that. you have to say funny stuff like... " if he blows into one.. does the other get bigger? " (jt)
haha, i'm like picturing a kid, and his mother, both standing up, w/him just suckin away...not a pleasant thought...in fact that's gross, this entire forum should be deleted...no, not just this thread, the entire forum
IIRC, the Bible says Samuel was 5 when he was weaned.
that doesnt just have to do w/ breast feeding though..that could be weaned off a bottle..of COWS milk. haha
um.... correct me if i'm wrong.. but they didn't HAVE bottles back then...
i'm SURE they coulda rigged something up..what you should've mentioned is that they didnt have COWS back then....strictly camel milk.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE COWS?!? then why do we have them today... now i'm all confuzled...
Jahanna. They had cows. They sacrificed many a FATTENED BULL! many a CHOICE HEFFA! they existed then.
they used skins. and earthen ware vessels.
ew..yea..past like 2 years old is gross...we know this sister who breast fed her one daughter til she was 5...and the kid is like...BUTCH! i'm convinced thats why..she's like..this little iron butter ball. haha
IRON BUTTER BALL. Good night, folks.
dont mock me brian..i'll kill you.
Come on...all kids hear "If you don't stop making that face, your face will freeze like that forever"
my mom told me if you never took a splinter out of your finger it would go into your bloodstream and pierce your heart and you would die.
The only way to get it out was with a firey hot needle, according to her.
hahahaa, that is true though...it can go to your heart.
dude....that's so not true
somebody told me something like that when i was little, they said that if you got a needle or pin or spinter or something stuck in you it could go into your bloodstream and hit your spine and kill you.
that reminds me of those kids in school that said if they hit you in the nose in an upwards motion your nose would go into your brain and kill you.
this reminds me of "those fruit rollups stick to the insides of your stomach"
I never heard that one before!
yea my mom was jealous that we didn't want to eat all natural fruit leather.
lol, FRUIT LEATHER!
well my parents WERE hippies. they used to grow/make everything we ate and wore for that matter lol.
haha o man.. remember those HORRIBLE matching dresses mom always made fo rus for every assembly and convention... its no wonder we didn't have friends...
hey you're just upset cus you didn't have ones made of terrycloth on the top. that kept me and sum soooo cool at yankee.
LOL o man.. yea lemme tell u how i was jealous...
that's it i'm posting a pic later!
My grandmother would make dresses for me and my sister. They were the same pattern, but Rebekah's was always a prettier fabric. I have no problem saying that I was jealous. Her memorial dresses were always better too. They came with cool hats.
my mom always said if we swallowed our gum it would stick to our guts forever or if we swallowed pits or seeds a tree would grow in our stomach.
I watched the big urban myth show on MTV and they told me it was a lie. Thank goodness for the educational experience that is MTV.
hahahaha. i just picture you saying this so seriously and wiping your forehead like, "oh yes, thank goodness for that wonderful mtv"
my mom told me about santa and the tooth fairy!!! and they really DO exist!