Mothers Advice

We all remember things our mothers used to say. These sayings have been around since the beginning of time, and I can still hear her today, as I hear myself repeating some of them. Do you remember these? I do!
Mothers advice

• Don't pick at it! it will get infected.
• Don't crack your knuckles like that, you'll get arthritis when you grow up.
• Stand up straight and take your hands out of your pockets.
• Stop picking your nose.
• Use a hanky not the back of your hand.
• Don't come crying to me if you kill yourself doing that.
• [When looking at the page 3 girl in the Sun]  don’t look at that for too long or you'll go blind.
• Have you been for a number 2.
• When was the last time you went for a number 2?
• This might sting a little bit but it’s for your own good
• Don’t stick that in your mouth you don’t know where it’s been
• Don't sit too close to the TV, you'll ruin your eyes.
• Don’t forget to wash behind your foreskin.
• Don’t forget to cover the toilet seat, you don’t know what you might catch.
• When was the last time you washed behind your ears?
• Have you washed your belly button out?
• If you don’t wash between your toes you’ll get cheese growing in there
• If you don’t hurry up we will leave without you.
• What have you been doing in these shoes?
• When was the last time you changed your pants
• You’ll never get a girlfriend looking like that
• When was the last time you had a bath?
• What’s that mark on your neck?
• In my day we only spoke when we were spoken to.
• Don’t back chat me or I’ll tell your father
• I told you not to go near him, he’s an idiot
• Don’t worry it will all come out in the wash
• I don't care if you're not sorry, say it anyway.
• Don’t you dare clean those muddy boots in my sink.
• If you're going to do that, do it outside.
• If you think you're going to get away with that you have another thing coming.
• Don't even think of it.
• You look as though you’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.
• Finish your plate, there are starving people in Africa.
• If you don't have room for peas, you don't have room for dessert.
• Eat it, it's good for you.
• Some day you'll learn to like it.
• Just take two more bites.
• If you don't eat your vegetables you'll get scurvy
• Eat your carrots, you’ll be able to see in the dark.
• What do you mean you don't like spinach? Popeye eats it every day.
• If they told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?
• I don't care if everyone else is doing it.
• I don't care if Pete’s mom lets him. I'm not Pete’s mum.
• Why don't you be more like so and so? He seems like a nice boy.
• Just tell them sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Then they'll leave you alone.
• Don't let them talk you into anything.
• You have a mind of your own, why did you listen to them?
• You can't tell a book by it's cover.
• They're just saying that because they're jealous.
• You just hold your head up high and never mind what everyone's saying.
• This room looks like a pig sty.
• You call this clean?
• Put it back where you got it or where it belongs.
• How can you find anything in this mess?
• This doesn't belong on the floor. Hang it up.
• You're just like your father.
• You don't see your father and I doing that do you?
• I don't care if it’s yours, just give it to him.
• Ask your father.
• Tell your father I'm not speaking to him.
• Don't do as I do, do as I say.
• As long as you live under my roof...
• Life is never fair.
• Mind your P's and Q's.
• If you don't like it, go live somewhere else.
• It's for your own good.
• This hurts me more than it hurts you.