Hey, Mom and Dad, I'm running with scissors!

Cute. All parents must read the same book at some point. These all sound so familiar. 

Amazing how much children remember about their parents after moving away from home and finally taking 100% responsibility for their actions. Unfortunately, many choose to forget what their parents tried to teach them and wander throughout their journey of life in a dream world. Great post.

What a great title for this post. I remember reading the book when it came out. A staff psychologist at my former workplace commented, "isn't it horrible how some people grow up?" I remember thinking, "really, that's what you got out of it? I was thinking how wonderful it is that someone can become a success story from such painful beginnings."

Hi Mike...Thanks for the great comments to Mom and Dad.  I think I heard each and everyone of them.  Of course they were all directed towards my brothers and sisters!!

as long as they aren't the GOOD scissors! (anyone who works with fabric will understand).

Cute post Mike!  I've certainly called my parents back when I was in college saying things similiar to this!  Just shows we love them and they love us!

hahaha I suddenly had a flash back of my childhood there. Staring at the fridge is my favorite, just because that's the one I keep telling my kids today.

My favorite thing as a kid was to sleep with my electric blanket on, while the ceiling fan was circulating overhead.  Heck, it still is one of my favorite things.

I was not very restricted when I was a child. My parents thought I'll learn on my mistakes. They were busy working...It is kind of the same way now: I work, but my kids work twice harder. They learned early to be responsible.

Well off... it is not flashing imitation Rolexes replacing Mickeys, leased Lotus's instead of Yugo's park in the driveway. Inside wealth and happiness, gratitude, joy. That is what parents build to detonate, glow, warm for life in the whipper snapper, young grasshopper. So running with scissors when you have to chop chop does not mean hand me the eye patch. Poking an eye out. Just being careful.

Frugal is not cheap. It's good business. Saving money so you could buy something but after research, impulse control decide naw, no thanks. I have all I need. But could and don't always have to buy buy buy.

Funny how we actually become our parents. I am always yelling at my husband to stop heating the outside, lol!

It's amazing the things you realize once you become an adult yourself, isn't it? 

Mike, one thing we learned as we became an adult. Our parents were right and always looked after our welfare. I hope we can pass along those values to our children.

Thanks for the laugh. I've been subjected to ALL on your list and find myself repeating the very sayings onto my children.

Eat your vegetables, those little kids in Biafra would be so upset to see you try and throw them away. It's amazing how smart are parents seemed to have been once we have to be adults as well.

We all pass those little nuggets on like an "oral history". In a way, that's a pretty cool thought. I think in many cases the more we try to be different from our parents, the more like them we become.

Funny...now that I'm a parent, the biggest pet peeve I can relate to above is the point about the lights.  Drives me crazy to come home and see lights on in every room but nobody is around.  I keep making empty threats to my kids that I'm going to take money out of their piggy banks to pay the electric bill. 

When my sister was about three, she was running down the hallway with a fork. You guessed it. She tripped on a rug and the fork went through her cheek. That was just one of the times, my mother was forced to take us to the emergency room. I made sure my kids never repeated that accident. They will make mistakes. Hopefully, not so painful that they don't recover.

and I've never poked anyone's eye out, either.

It is amazing how smart our parents get each year.  Must be the water and veggies they eat!!!!!!!!!!!!