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Advice your mother gave you

#1 Postby alicia-w » Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:59 pm

What's the best or most remembered piece of advice your mother ever gave you?

My mother always said: Contribute quietly, protect those who need it most, and you can't change the world sitting at the kitchen table!
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#2 Postby sunny » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:00 pm

Do as I say, not as I do!
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#3 Postby rainstorm » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:30 pm

my mother told me to keep quiet, be a good girl and dont post on internet message boards
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#4 Postby sunny » Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:38 pm

LOL rainstorm - isn't is good that we listened to our mothers?!!
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#5 Postby rainstorm » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:09 pm

sunny wrote:LOL rainstorm - isn't is good that we listened to our mothers?!!


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#6 Postby JenBayles » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:36 pm

I guess I'm old enough that I actually got the "clean underwear" lecture!
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#7 Postby Cookiely » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:42 pm

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. (I bite my tongue alot!) :lol:
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#8 Postby mf_dolphin » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:44 pm

My mother said "learn to cook" no woman will put up with you! :-)
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#9 Postby Yankeegirl » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:18 am

My mom always said pay your bills before pleasure...

And never to get anything you cant pay for in cash..
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#10 Postby MSRobi911 » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:53 am

Always wear clean underwear and hopefully with no holes in them, you might get in a wreck and then everyone would see them....????? I worked in the ER for 7 years, didn't see that many pairs of drawers unless the patient had them cut off cause they were in serious condition or deceased and then they didn't care and no body looked.

Also, if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!

And the BIG ONE......one day you will grow up and have a little girl just like you and be paid back for everything you do.......

boy was she sure correct in that one!!!
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#11 Postby DaylilyDawn » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:26 pm

The one thing my mother told me was never to go to sleep at night if you are angry at your spouse.
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#12 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:41 pm

MSRobi911 wrote:
if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all!

And the BIG ONE......one day you will grow up and have a little girl just like you and be paid back for everything you do.......

boy was she sure correct in that one!!!


No kidding!!!! Boy have my "sins" come back to visit me!!! :eek: :oops: But in this case it is a young woman who in some ways is TOO much like her dad and her younger brother is well, shall we say I know where he comes from!(most of the time)
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#13 Postby breeze » Wed Nov 24, 2004 3:55 pm

LOL, JenBayles and MSRobi911 - that "clean
underwear" thing was the very first thought that
came into my mind when I read this thread! Another
one, when a boss or supervisor was being
mean, yelling, etc. - "Remember - they can yell
at you, but, they can't eat you."
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#14 Postby MSRobi911 » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:32 am

I always remember this one bit of advice and I have used it. It was not from my mom, but from a favorite teacher my senior year. Trying to prepare us for the "real world" and jobs.

She said when your boss is screaming at you and you want to scream back and know that if you do you will probably be shown the door....picture that person naked and think about how silly they would look while they are screaming at you.....it works, you have to work on not laughing or smirking (that would get you in more trouble) but you calm down and don't get as upset and scream back.
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#15 Postby wxguy25 » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:56 am

Mine Always said: "Don't be like your Father"
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