A Mother's Day Special

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Mother's Day is getting close by.  Ever received Motherisms from your Mom?  I found an interesting article about some popular ones.  Maybe you have heard about one or more of them too.  Here is a list I found from www.mothersdaycentral.com:

1) "Stop cracking your knuckles… it will give you arthritis!"

2) "If you shave your facial hair, it will come back thicker."

3) "Watching TV too close will hurt your eyes and make you go blind!"

4) "It's cold outside - if you don't bundle up you're going to get sick!"

5) "Make sure to clean behind your ears - if not, potatoes will start growing there."

6) "If you swallow a watermelon seed, it will grow inside your stomach!"

7) "Don't swallow that gum - it will stay in your stomach for seven years!"

8) "You're too young to start drinking coffee - it will stunt your growth."

9) "Eating your carrots will improve your eyesight enough to see in the dark."

10) "Stop playing with the toad - you'll just get warts on your hand!"

11) "Wait an hour after eating before getting into the pool or you'll get cramps and drown!"

12) "If you keep making that face, it might stay that way forever!"

13) "You're going to poke someone's eye out with that!"

14) "Eating too many spicy foods will give you ulcers."

15) "Get down from there - you're going to fall and crack your head open!"

16) "If you keep playing with it, it will fall off someday."

Wouldn't we love to bust these myths?  They have been busted alright. You may read it at http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/mothers-day-fun/mom-myths/ and see why these are not true.  It seems that tapping at our fear conscience works when we were children.  I wonder if it works on grown-ups… ;-)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOMS!

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DL    

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"Let us rise up and be thankful; for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so let us all be thankful."

--Buddha