Go pee INSIDE!
Yes, you have to wear pants.
Pull up your swim trunks!
No more wrestling your brother!
Spitting is not allowed in the house.
Get your hands out of your pants.
Stop it before someone gets hurt.
Not everyone likes mud.
Don’t throw that!
What? There’s a difference between Power Rangers Samari and Power Rangers Super Samari?
What do you mean, “What’s for dinner?” Y’all just ate an entire pizza!
Put the stick down.
Being a mom to boys is an awful lot like being a pirate mom and maybe I have to say some crazy things, but I wouldn’t change it for the world!
What odd things do you find yourself telling your kids?
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I have asked, “Is that chocolate or poop?”
I’ve asked that. Even though I wanted to run away instead of waiting for the answer!
LOL! I have uttered just about every single one of those phrases being a mom of 4 boys!
Ha! Then you can definitely relate!
I say take your hands out of your pants all the time too!
Also, stop banging that on the floor/ table/ chair. And be careful don’t fall. A Lot.
Be careful. I say that one so much that I practically do it without thinking!
That is too funny. I have said so many of those. It is so true. And you are right being a mom to boys is so much fun!
So much fun! But messy. 😉
Yes, yes and YES. I say all of these about 20 times a day. But I wouldnt change it for ANYTHING!
Me, either! Love my little men!
How about “Stop touching your brother!”
Sandy
Oh yes- all the time!
So funny!!:) Just the other day I caught myself saying “No you can’t go outside in just a teeshirt and socks, you do HAVE to have pants on!” and I thought how did it come to this? But I am comforted that it’s normal…:)
Sounds very much like mine!
I said a few of those this weekend. Isn’t it fun being a boy mom? 🙂
Yes, it is. 😉
I love this post! I can see myself saying a lot of these things in the future. Right now since we’re in the throws of potty training two boys at once, I find myself saying as they sit on the potty seats next to each other, “Tuck your penis down!”
Oh my- good luck with that! I’m so glad that we are done potty training here!
I have said all of these things too. Our latest way to lock horns is hand washing. I ask him if he has washed his hand and he tells me yes he has. I ask when and he tells me yesterday. No, that isn’t recent enough. He has to go and wash them for this moment in time.
What a smart little guy! LOL
LOL! I have said every one of the things on your list. As for, “pee inside”, letting them pee outside was the only way I got those boys out of diapers!
Mine did the same thing. And I’m okay with it… sometimes. But not if the neighbors could see!
Sadly, I say almost all of those things to my girl, too… maybe because she has a brother?
My all time, I Can’t Believe I Just Said That Moment remains the time I yelled, at the top of my lungs, across the yard to The Girl, who was tackling her brother on a trampoline, “Pull up your pants and get off your brother!!!”
LMAO!!!!
Just the other day I had to tell my youngest to stop licking her older sister.
Oh, the licking! How could I leave that one out?
This weekend, I might have said, “Do you have to go pee? No? Well then, stop playing with your penis. I promise it’s still there!”
I’ll have to remember that one!
EVERYDAY when my husband walks in the door from work the first thing out of his mouth is ‘so and so’ where are your pants!!!??? Often it is all three of them. One day maybe I’ll surprise him and it will be all four of us!!!
None of my boys have on pants right now, so I totally hear ya!
I’m sure I’ll sound a lot like this when my two boys get older 🙂
I’m sure you will! 😉
Not too long ago I found myself telling my four year old, “Come pick up all these shotgun shells so I can vacuum!” I was completely baffled that the words were coming out of my mouth. He collected them at our family’s ranch and littered them all over the floor!
That is hilarious!
I only have one little guy, and I still say so many of those on a regular basis. I can’t imagine if I had more 🙂 You should just have a tshirt made 🙂
I totally should!
Love these! Raising girls is not so different! I find myself telling my little one to get her hands out of her pants regularly. More …
Get your feet off your sister.
No, you can’t live only on fruit snacks.
Please stop wiping your boogers on your sister.
No, I have no idea where your nearly invisible Polly Pocket red shoe is.
Quit flinging that fairy wand around – you’ll poke someone’s eye out.
Fun post!
So funny- you could do your own post! 🙂
Yep, I totally say all those things.
Sounds like a great chat. I love The Motherhood!
Hope you’ll join us! I think their chats are much easier to follow than twitter parties.
I have said all of the above so many times that it’s like a mommy chant. So funny how much we all have in common. A few of our unique phrases include “no weapons at the table”, “don’t take the remote to the bathroom with you” and “stop hitting the neighbor with your battle axe!”
Parenting is certainly an adventure!
A battle ax? I think you have a post there!
That’s a great idea! When I post it, I’ll give you credit 🙂
OMG I say put down the remote at least ten time in an hour! It is always always under his arm if he is not surfing channels. Usually I reach to If you don’t choose one show I will turn the television off!
So funny. I have to say, “Don’t be so loud” a lot.
I usually end up yelling(and defeating the point) “WHY are you so loud?????”
I think I’ve said all of those many times, except “go pee INSIDE”. Knock on wood! I’ve also had to say things such as…
No chainsaws in your bed
Sticks are not light sabers
Quit sniffing people.
What is it with boys and sticks??
“No! No more dink fights!”
Dink? LMAO
My personal favorite remains “you do not put your sister’s shoe on your penis.”
Oh, the things I’ve had to say to my boys about that particular appendage. It was actually blogging about that that made me start this blog instead of keeping everything on my family one. LOL
Sounds like fun!
And maybe I will learn a thing or two since boys baffle me… daily.
I definitely don’t have them figured out. They are dirty and confusing little creatures.
I only have girls but I constantly have to tell them that they can’t go to the store or anywhere outside of our home in their pjs. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure I am the root of this problem as I love to be in mine!
I do, too!
I am telling you that little girls are way worse then boys about putting their hands in their pants or messing with their private area. I have to say those things to all of my kids, not just the boy. lol.
The funniest/weirdest thing I said over the weekend was “Do not try to pick her ear with your toe.” Why? Why, do I have to say these things? 😉
Toes in an ear, ewwww!
I used to have to tell my oldest to stop biting his TOEnails. So gross. But one time, he bit down too far and got it infected and it was painful so he stopped.
I distinctly remember telling one of them, “Do NOT pee on the bug!”
Do not pee on the______ is a common around here!
Too funny! I have two boys and these are true! I have a daughter as well, so I also had to say, “Untie your sister!” 🙂
LOL I could see that happening here!
The dog is not a dark lord of the Sith! Do not chase him with the light saber!
that’s one for the baby books!
This one made me laugh out loud!! Thank you for sharing.
I find myself saying more and more, “That is NOT appropriate!” (usually immediately followed by “where are your pants?!?”)
Sounds very much like me!
this!! is exactly how I feel lately!! “WHY ARE YOU NAKED?” is my favorite lately.
Why are they naked all the time???
but I think I’ve said all of these and just reading it made me giggle. 🙂
xo
Mine think naked is how they should be all. the. time.
I find myself saying the same crazy things all the time! One of my personal favorites is telling them, “Just behave like civilized people when we’re in public, please!” Somehow they interpret this to mean that they can be uncivilized at home!
Uh-oh. Have to word that differently!
Ha, this was great.
The latest thing I find myself saying is “Get your hands out of your pants.”
Yes! I don’t get it!
I’m also having to say “no toys in your underwear!”
Giggle I have said pretty much everything on this list to both my son AND my daughters!!
Come on everybody knows that Power Ranger Super Samurai is the one where the famous black box is unlocked and the Red Ranger is given Super Samurai Powers and a really awful costume! HAHAHHAHAHAHHA yup we watch way too much Power Ranger themed TV here.
Did you know that there is also Power Ranger Jungle Fury, DIno Thunder and my children’s new fav Power Ranger ninja Storm. LOL LOL
I did know- b/c my boys have figured out a way to make a series recording of ALL of those. Our dvr is overrun with Power Rangers!!!
I say a lot of those things to the girls too…must be because they always want to copy Ethan 😉
Probably! Boys are crazy sometimes!
Add in, “stop smearing peanut butter in her hair!” and you’ve encapsulated my life!
We haven’t quite had that one b/c my boys would never waste pb- they have to eat it all.
But they have painted each other. And NOT with washable paint.
My eldest son is home for 3 weeks after completing his first year at the US Naval Academy. He’s learned all sorts of new moves that takes brotherly wrestling to a whole new level. I’m a little embarrassed to say that this weekend I yelled,
“DO NOT choke out your brother!”
LOL Sounds like my house!
Hmm…it seems I have asked my girls some of the same questions.
Kids are such weird little creatures, boy or girl.
I say most of those things to my girls too. And I also say things like get off the floor! This is a public restroom and its dirty! As well as-if you take off your diaper and smear poop everywhere one more time, mommy is going to lose her mind and may end up in jail. Boys!
Oh yes, public restrooms. I find myself yelling “DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING! IT’S DIRTY!”
Confession: I potty-trained my boys outside. And now at 10 and 8 years of age when I tell them to go to the bathroom because we are leaving the house, they go in the backyard. Yup. #motherofthecentury
Ha. I really don’t mind it- but only if they are out of sight of the neighbors!
Is it wrong that I used to tell Jack to go ahead and pee OUTSIDE all the time?
You see, we have a pool. And if I actually made him get out, dry off and go inside to pee, he’d just go in the pool.
So. Letting him aim at the bushes in the side yard seemed like a good idea at the time.
Still, he’s 15 now. Better get that under control soon, right? Ha! Just kidding.
(Now I’m sure he just pees in the pool…)
That makes a lot of sense! And as long as my boys go where the neighbors can’t see, I’m okay with it. Just not right smack in the middle of the yard!
Oh yes, I say those frequently. We need t-shirts with all the sayings on them with “No” and “Stop that” being in big bold letters.
Yes- and then we could just point instead of having to yell!
No, you may not poop in the grass!
Please don’t fart on your brother.
LOL
My boys think farting is hilarious.
this list made me chuckle. I have said and continue to say many, many of these things daily. The “pull up your pants” thing is pretty common in our house. What is it with boys and not wanting to wear pants?!
Apparently, it’s a boy thing!
Funniest thing that I ever said that came back to bite me in the butt was when my oldest was picking his nose at the grocery store, when he was about 3, I asked, “What did I say about that?” He answered, “I know…stop playing with my nose. My nose is not a toy. My penis is not a toy.” He said it loudly and two checkout lanes of people had a good laugh but in his defense, at that time, I was saying that a lot.
I would have died laughing!
“Listen!” – “Not so rough” – “Be nice to your brother” – “Don’t throw that!” … And all the things you mentioned as well! And I so agree…I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Yes- same here! “Not so rough” is one I say every single day.
#1 is by far my favorite!! It doesn’t help that my husband will often go outside! Really?
Mine, too! I just don’t get it!
Okay…. so I’ve been a mom of girls up until 2 years ago and now I have a boy! I find myself saying some of those things more than I think I need too…. and he’s only 2 1/2!
It’s a different world, isn’t it? I’d probably be in for culture shock if I had a girl.
When my girls were small, my best friend and I used to talk constantly on the phone. She, like you, had 3 boys.
While I used to stuff them full of Oreos on my end, just to silence the talky talk long enough for me to have an adult conversation, my friend was on the other line, constantly yelling, “STOP TOUCHING IT.”
I don’t think anything changes.
How sad is it that I can relate to the “Get your hands out of your pants!”…and that’s to my 14 year old…sigh…I’ve been a bad bloggy friend, I’ve been so busy with school, but I leave and I come back, and look at you, you’re the fricken Bloggess with all these comments! Go you!
Yep, I say many of those things to my son as well. Boys are so….BOYS!
So true!! Just the other day I had to tell Nathaniel that no he could not just pull his pants down wherever when he needed to pee.
I think boys are really more stubborn than guys. But stubborn or not, I know all of us still cherish our kid. They’re our most treasured gifts ever.