What are those things that you catch yourself saying over and over throughout the day, many times a day? Do you know what they are? These things clearly change a bit depending on where you are in your life at the time and what your circumstances are but I know for sure there are so many things that I say on a daily basis over and over again.
Some of these things might be said ten times a day, some twenty and some even thirty times each day.
When I started to jot them down, this was the list that emerged. Fortunately it is a real mixture of things, if you are a parent, some of yours might be similar:
- “It’s not serious”
- “Where’s the other one?”
- “What did you do to your brother/sister?”
- “I don’t think so!”
- “Just a second”
- “Two more minutes”
- “I’m coming, hold on”
- “Woweeee”
- “That’s fantastic!”
- “Have you had a wee?”
- “Do you need another wee?”
- “Are you sure?”
- “Please put your socks/coat/shoes on”
- “Quick, quick”
- “Hurry up”
- “Where did you hide the …..?”
- “Please don’t shout at me”
- “I love you“
- “Well done”
- “Please don’t…..”
- “Hold my hand, this is a car park!”
- “Aren’t you clever!”
- “I’m coming to tickle you!”
- “What a kind boy/girl you are”
- “You are scrumptious”
- “Night, night, I love you”
What are your most used phrases at the moment?
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Mine is definitely wait a minute, hurry up and give me 5 minutes peace! #thelist Lifeinthemumslane
Life in the fast lane right?
I think my top three are probably – ‘You don’t need to shout, I’m right here!’, ‘I love you’ and ‘Stop kicking *insert name of child here*!’
Ah yes, the shouting when you are right next to them…know it well!
Definitely ‘just a minute’ is at the top of the list! The thing that is so scary is when you hear yourself saying what your mum used to say to you!
Oh don’t… I did that tonight. “Do you want the light on, how can you read like that?”
‘Why is Stella crying?’, ‘Have you finished your dinner?’ and ‘Can you put on your clothes/take your clothes off, please.’ are up there, for sure, off the top of my head!
I will think about this more over the next few days and see if I’m right!
x Alice
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Great! Thanks for sharing – keep me posted lol x
Ah that’s a lovely list. Some of the things I say include “Get out of bed!” “Time to get up little one.” , “Do you need a wee?” “night, see you tomorrow, I love you.” There are so many other things too but if I was to list everything it would be an epic comment!
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Thanks for sharing – there are so many aren’t there when you start to think. At least we keep it varied right?
Yes, I say quite a few of these a lot! Definitely ‘hurry up’ and ‘quick quick’! #sharethejoy
Hmmm, life is such a rush isn’t it!
This is an interesting post, I’m definitely going to be paying more attention to what I say tomorrow to see what phrases I use repeatedly. “No squealing” will be right up there – dozens of times a day :/ !
Lol – thanks, yes it was quite an interesting exercise!
Haha I pretty much say all those things along with.
Please eat your dinner
Don’t say that
And stop fighting please
Lol
What it is to be parents hey :p xx
Lol – same club then Sarah! Please eat your dinner…yes I should have added that!
mine is a bit older. I say a lot of “don’t be fresh” and “hurry up!”
Hurry up… I know, everything is always such a rush
“We’re going to be late!” would probably feature highly on my list! What an interesting exercise – thanks for sharing this at #sharethejoy
Oh yes, I was always early for everything, not any more!
Love this. “Get down” is top of my list at the moment as the little one continues to turn me grey! Thanks for linking up to #FridayFrolics
Oh no- you have a climber too then?
Oh my goodness I love love this. I say ALL these all the time. Added to “you little monster” as my youngest likes to pretend to be a monster so it is slowly becoming her nickname in a funny way. But yes are parents we definitely on sayings on repeat. I adore that photo at the end I hope you have it blown up and on your wall. What a moment to capture all together. Beautiful family! 🙂 Thanks for linking up to Share With Me #sharewithme
Ah thanks Jenny 🙂 …mine pretend to be baby dinosaurs!
Brilliant post!!
I find myself saying most of those things as well as,
“Wait there!”
“Hold on a minute”
“Please stop talking over your brother, he was trying to tell me something”
and…
“I’m so proud of you!”
They drive us mad but we love them.x
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That is so true Gemma – thanks for reading and sharing yours 🙂 x