Filed under: Just for momsA friend and I were talking about the ridiculous sayings we heard growing up. We marveled that because our mothers (and sometimes fathers) said it, we never questioned the science or logic behind gems like:

If you keep making that face, it might freeze that way!
Clean your plate, there are children in (China, India, Africa, Ohio, etc.) who are starving.
If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?
Do I look like I'm made of money?
Don't sit too close to the TV, you'll go blind!
Don't read in the dark, you'll go blind!
Don't wear someone else's glasses, you'll go blind!
Do you think money just grows on trees?
You'd forget your head if it wasn't attached to your shoulders!
Don't touch that/put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been!

You don't hear people using Mom-isms much anymore. Perhaps in honor of Mother's Day, we should dust them off and remind the next generation that cleaning behind the ears is what prevents potatoes from growing because losing mom-isms, no matter how wacky or bizarre, just seems a shame.
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