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  1. #1

    Mar 2004
    Sparta
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    Signs that you're turning into your Mum/Dad

    I'm turning into my mother.
    DH and the boys are away and I've turned my back on the kitchen and the tidying and picked up my tools
    I've repaired a table (I think, test will be tomorrow when I turn it the right way up) and I've sanded back the top of another. Tomorrow I do the legs and drawers and then I'll stain it.

    So far my family have never returned to find me bashing out walls with a sledge hammer but the day will probably come lol.

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    Jan 2005
    cowtown
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    I referred to the 25yo "young guy" at work as "the youth of today"

  3. #3
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    Oct 2004
    In my Zombie proof fortress.
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    I would much rather walk in the garden with my cats than with my kids. I am so becoming my mother.

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    Feb 2008
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    I said to my three year old daughter 'don't stick your chin out like that when you are speaking to me'. As soon as I finished saying it I realised Mum used to say that to me.

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    Jan 2010
    Shoe Heaven
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    I'm tutting at behaviour while shaking my head.

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    Jan 2009
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    I referred to the 25yo "young guy" at work as "the youth of today"
    Hahaha, been there -- hated it the first time I did it - now I've just accepted that I am old and they are 'the youth of today'!

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    Jul 2010
    Canberra
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    Sayings:

    "Quiet back there in the peanut gallery!"
    "What do you think this is, Bush Week?"

    My DH is turning into his dad for the same reason. My favourite:

    "As flash as a rat with a gold tooth."

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    Nov 2009
    Scottish expat living in Geelong
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    I got home from work and started icing my hip and complaining about my aches and pains. Oh dear, my mother never stops complaining about her aches, she would be so proud

  9. #9
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    Jun 2007
    Brisbane
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    I know I'm turning into my mother when that little voice inside my head says "geeeeeez woman, you sound just like your mother!!" eeek!

  10. #10

    May 2008
    Melbourne, Vic
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    I called my daughter "young lady"!

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    Jan 2005
    Down by the ocean
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    I called my daughter "young lady"!
    Me too

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    Feb 2010
    Geelong
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    I complain about my physical ailments like my mum, according to dh!! Help!! Hehe!


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  13. #13
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    Apr 2008
    Home, where else??
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    I'm definitely turning into my mum.

    We say exactly the same thing at exactly the same time. It's creepy. It is so bad that my youngest actually called me Grammie a couple of times.

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    Nov 2008
    in the ning nang nong
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    So far, I've done the whole, "If I come in there and it's the first thing that I see..." and I've counted to three.

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    Nov 2010
    Perth, WA
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    Bwaahahaahahahaa...DD's friend looked at me strangely when I asked if she'd been born in a tent...

    Which is exactly what my mother would say whenever we left the door open.

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    Jun 2007
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    "How many times do I have to tell you....." "Just do it and get it over and done with"

    Its my dad all over!!! And now even DS says it to his toys!!!!

    I actually felt like calling my dad and apologising for continuously doing what I had been asked NOT to do many many times as a child lol Or for not doing things that I was asked to do!!!

    I didnt though.... I might wait til a bit more guilt builds up!!!

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    Sep 2008
    Bunbury, Western Australia
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    I have a habit of calling DS a "greenhorn" which my dad always called us as kids (in affection of course!)

    Tonight it dawned on me that I'm my mother all over. As a kid I remember watching her do her "beauty regime"-mostly impatiently-she has always been very proactive in looking after her skin. Not so much the make up side of things, but cleansing, moisturising, sunscreen etc. She is a very "naturally beautiful" lady.
    And tonight as I sprayed my face with toner and started applying my moisturiser (paying extra attention to those prone to be dry patches!) and then went and slathered the rest of myself in body lotion while DS watched in a mixture of boredom and curiosity, it hit me. I'm turning into my mother XD