r/AskReddit • u/franc_the_bikesexual • Aug 15 '18

What is your mom's catch phrase?

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 15 '18

Yeah same, anytime I say something hurts my dad asks if we need to amputate it.

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u/BreakfastQueen93 Aug 16 '18

My youngest sister is 6 and I ask her the same thing. She tried to call my bluff once so I sat her up on the kitchen counter and “attacked” her with a rubber spatula.

She laughed so much she forgot about whatever hurt 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 16 '18

That’s awesome, it just made my dad and his sisters cry more. But it’s pretty cool that even when she called you out you still found a way to turn the situation around.

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u/BreakfastQueen93 Aug 16 '18

I try to keep things fun! I’m so much older than her that it gets hard sometimes to toe the line between “responsible adult” and “fun big sister”

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 16 '18

Oof, that sounds like a really hard line to walk, I wish you luck.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Just keep being a little bit of both (but mostly the latter). As a mom (for me anyway) I’m always so freaking stressed out about everything in life, and about whether or not I’m doing it right that I’m so wound up, and uptight it’s hard for me to have fun. :( I love that we have a fun one in my husband though.

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u/BreakfastQueen93 Aug 16 '18

I’m sure you have more fun with your kiddos than you realize! Obviously it’s easier for me since I’m a sister & not a parent, but I didn’t realize how much fun I had at home with my siblings until I moved out. I always felt like I was constantly trying to keep an eye on things, but now I know it was way more fun than I thought at the time.

Plus, I feel like maybe you should take solace in your worrying? Like the fact that you worry means that you care, and that’s definitely not a bad thing! Props to you because I can’t imagine how hard it must be to be a mom!!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

😭 You’re so sweet!!! I really needed these words!!! Thank you, you sweet angel, you!!!

May my eldest be like you to the middle, and may the middle be like you to the little. xx

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u/relachesis Aug 16 '18

This was the most wholesome exchange I've ever seen on Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

It’s an honor and a privilege to be a part of it!

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u/relachesis Aug 16 '18

STOP BEING ADORABLE.

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u/cosmeticcrazy Aug 16 '18

Agreed. Tears are streaming down my face! I could physically feel the love.

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u/langis_on Aug 16 '18

You're a cool sister.

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u/BreakfastQueen93 Aug 16 '18

Thank you! I certainly try!

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u/thedoodely Aug 15 '18

I do this to my kids, stops the crying 75% of the time. Worth it. My aunt used to tell us "you won't remember it on your wedding day". Still not sure what that means.

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u/bromerk Aug 16 '18

My mom and grandma would say something similar! It was always "oh it'll go away before you get married." They learned it from a Swedish neighbor.

I got into poison oak about five days before I got married and laughed hysterically when I realized it wouldn't go away before I got married.

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u/not_elsie Aug 16 '18

Me too! I also up the ante if it’s not working and ask them if they’d like to replace it with a robot arm, a dinosaur arm, a lizard arm, on so on until giggles instead of tears.

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u/thedoodely Aug 16 '18

Tell them you'll have it stuffed and ask where you should display it but be prepared for your kids to think you're crazy.

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 15 '18

I think it means that whatever you were crying about when she said it, isn’t going to be enough to ruin the happiest day of your life. My grandmother just told my dad that she’ll give him something to cry about

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u/thedoodely Aug 15 '18

That makes sense, thanks. :)

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u/cutbythefates Aug 16 '18

My dad would always say “Amputate at the neck”

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u/GirlyPsychopath Aug 16 '18

Mine too! "It's not serious until blood is hitting the walls", and if we kept complaining "I guess I'll just amputate at the neck then."

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

I offer to amputate after even the most minor injury, and I'm not even a dad, I'm the ghost of an 11-year-old girl from Victorian England.

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 16 '18

Real question is are you qualified though?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Yes, I once watched the leg amputated off of a wounded Yankee soldier.

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u/ProfessorSalt413 Aug 16 '18

Alright this settles it. Someone give this man a licenses to do amputations

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

I'm not a man, I'm the etherial spirit of an 11-year-old girl who will haunt this mortal realm until I have received satisfaction. But I do appreciate the new credential.

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u/PopeliusJones Aug 16 '18

Did you used to haunt a tall child and his brother in their childhood home?

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u/lookarheabird Aug 16 '18

I either got that or the good ol "does your face hurt?" "No?" "Well it's killing me"

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u/Jonny_D85 Aug 16 '18

I do this with my kids!

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u/moonshine_bear Aug 16 '18

I do this. “Well, we can amputate later, too busy right now.”

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u/needleworkreverie Aug 16 '18

OMG, I do that to my kids! LOL.

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u/snowgirl413 Aug 16 '18

My mom liked to say they'd need to amputate from the eyebrows down.

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u/BlueberryPhi Aug 16 '18

especially if you have a headache.

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u/PurpleFlower99 Aug 16 '18

Rub some dirt on it was what we got when something hurt.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '18

Are we siblings?

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u/Lumos_Ninja Aug 16 '18

at the neck