~~~TRAILS OF KNOWLEDGE~~

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

My Mother taught me about RECEIVING.... "You are going to get it when we get home!"

My Mother taught me to MEET A CHALLENGE... "What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you ... Don't talk back to me!"

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

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

My Mother taught me to THINK AHEAD... "If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job.

My Mother taught me ESP... "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you're cold?"

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

My Mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT... "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

My Mother taught me about SEX.... "How do you think you got here?"

My Mother taught me about GENETICS... "You're just like your father."

My Mother taught me about my ROOTS... "Do you think you were born in a barn?"

My Mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE... "When you get to be my age, you will understand.

And my all time favorite... JUSTICE... "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you..... Then you'll see what its like."

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), May 06, 2000

Answers

Lars, this is a 'winner' too bad many wont open it for fear of the virus going around.

----one who is too trusting sometimes, but loves a challenge.

I think my mom used ALL OF THEM...lol

-- consumer (shh@aol.com), May 06, 2000.

Lars:

Cute story :^). You do know that Mother's Day is next Sunday, though, don't you?

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), May 06, 2000.

Lars -

I got the genetics one ... "you're just like your father". With my mother being English and my father being Italian I never got the impression she meant anything good by it!!

I also got the "I hope you have kids just like you"! LOL, they are and Justice is done! (wild little things!)

-- Debra (!!!!@!!!!.com), May 06, 2000.

LOL!

My mother taught me about CAUSE AND EFFECT - "If you don't stop that bawling, I'll really give you something to cry about."

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), May 06, 2000.

My mother used to say "remind me to give you a spanking when we get home". Yea sure mom, wink wink

-- cin (cin@cin.cin), May 06, 2000.

LOL, cin! Same here. Nope, never reminded her either. My favorite of hers was "If you break your legs, don't come running to me!".

Uh, yeah, Mom, no problem ;-)

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), May 06, 2000.

My mother said all of the above. And I was a good learner, I've repeated them all to my kids, LOL!

One thing my mother taught me that's not mentioned here though, is not to take myself too seriously. She taught me that by example.

-- (y@x.x), May 08, 2000.

My mother is a travel agent with Guilt Trips, Inc.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), May 08, 2000.

I have observed far too many offspring estranged in adult life from their parents to think that my mother is the pattern for all others. She was, looking back from the vantage of 45 years, a very good mother. She was, above all else, a great example to follow, rather than just a lawgiver to be listened to.

She was able to explain adult things to children at their own level of understanding and capable of making simple morality seem good and attractive compared to license and irresponsibility, so that we kids all wanted to be good people even when she wasn't around to watch. We valued goodness very highly.

Nothing else speaks so loudly on her behalf as the fact that every kid in the neighborhood preferred to come and play at our house instead of us going to theirs. And all of them genuinely respected her, which (it seems to me) is the supreme compliment a child can offer.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), May 08, 2000.