Having read the replies thus far I think I heard all but maybe one or two from either my parents or grandparents growing up. Funny thing now is that I use many of them myself.
That said, I noticed several of the replies where the person posting said that the comments were meant to "put them down", and they weren"t all that happy about it, BUT, they worked because you performed to exceeded your parents expectations "just to spite them".... To that all I can say is that if many of us, especially the guys, would look back at our childhood and be honest about the attitudes we had at the time, or at least the attitude our parents perceived we had, the comments worked. Thing is they worked because we "knew better" than our parents and they "knew it too". As a result they knew if they said to do one thing we"d never do it, but when something was presented as a challenge to our "vast knowledge and abilities" we"d do it just so show we could, whether it"s what we thought was right or not. In the end, like it or not, real parenting has never come with instruction manuals so they always just do the best they can. Looking at it another way, "modern" parents have instruction manuals out the ying-yang telling them to do this or that, not to do this or that, and on and on. Problem is look at the kind/quality of kids being raised in the majority of cases based on these principles. Many arte lazy, whiny, and have a sense of self worth greater than our national debt...and those of us raised without instructions are having to support them.
So like it or not, I think most of our perents did a pretty dang good job whether we"d really care to admit it or not. But that"s just my .02 because I know I "knew it all" for a long time growing up, and my Dad had to constantly challange me to listen and do better.....and I didn"t like it at the time......but now I"m glad I did........
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