Youth Ideas - Sayings of Mothers

Youth Ideas -
Sayings of
Mothers
This Mother's Day
teaching activity can be a
Children's sermon or a
reminder that mothers
look after us just as the
Heavenly Father does.
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Activity
Have children / youth list things that
their mothers say to them. As a fun
variation, ask them to list three of
the most common things said by
their mothers to them on a piece of
paper. Place them in a bowl and
randomly distribute them. Youth
must then try to guess whose
mother the sayings come from.

Debrief
Discuss how these things are a
mother’s way of taking care of
them. See the list below for some
ideas. You could also ask children
/ youth how many of their
mothers have said things like
these. What is the rationale
behind these sayings? Are they all
true?

Sayings of Mothers
• A little “birdy” told me!
• A little soap & water never killed
anybody.
• Always wear clean underwear in
case you get in an accident.
• Am I talking to a brick wall?
• Answer me when I ask you a
question!
• Are you deaf or something?
• Are you going out dressed like
that?
• Are you lying to me?
• Are your hands broken? Pick it up
yourself! I’m not your maid!
• As long as you live under my roof,
you’ll do as I say.

• Call me when you get there, just
so I know you’re okay.
• Clean up after yourself!
• Close the door behind you —
were you born in a barn?
• Cupcakes are NOT a breakfast
food!
• Did you brush your teeth?
• Did you flush?
• Did you clean your room?
• Did you comb your hair?
• Do as I say, not as I do
• Do I look like a maid?

• Do you think I’m made of money?
• Do you think this is a hotel?
• Do you think your socks are going to
pick themselves up?
• Don’t ask me WHY. The answer is NO
• Don’t break your arm patting
yourself on the back
• Don’t cross your eyes or they’ll
freeze that way.
• Don’t eat the seeds or you’ll have
watermelons growing out your ears
• Don’t EVER let me catch you doing
that again!
• Don’t go out with wet hair, you’ll
catch cold.
• Don’t make me come in there!

• Don’t make me get up!
• Don’t pick it, it’ll get infected.
• Don’t put that in your mouth, you
don’t know where it’s been.
• Don’t run in the house
• Don’t sit too close to the television
• Don’t talk with your mouth full!
• Don’t use that tone with me!
• Don’t walk away when I’m talking
to you!
• Don’t you have anything better to
do?
• Eat those carrots, they’re good for
your eyes. Have you ever seen a
rabbit wearing glasses?

• Eat your vegetables, they’re good
for you.
• Enough is enough!
• Go ask your father
• Go to your room and wait until
your daddy gets home!
• How can you have nothing to
wear? your closet is FULL of clothes!
• How do you know you don’t like it
if you haven’t tasted it?
• How many times do I have to tell
you…don’t throw things in the
house!
• I can always tell when you’re lying.
• I can’t believe you can sleep in this
filth!
• I didn’t ask who put it there, I said
“Pick it up!”

• I don’t care what “everyone” is
doing, I care what you are doing!
• I don’t care who started it, I said
stop!
• If it were a snake, it would have
bitten you.
• If you’re too sick to go to school,
you’re too sick to play outside.
• If you can’t say something nice,
don’t say anything at all.
• If you don’t stop crying, I am going
to give you something to cry about!
• I’m doing this for your own good.
• I’m not going to ask you again.
• I’m not just talking to hear myself.
• I’m going to give you until the count
of three.

• I’m going to skin you alive!
• Isn’t it past your bedtime?
• I’ve had it up to here with you.
• Life isn’t fair.
• Look at me when I’m talking to
you.
• Men perspire, ladies glisten.
• Money does NOT grow on trees.
• No child of MINE would do
something like that.
• Over my dead body!
• Pick that up before somebody
trips on it and breaks their neck!

• Say that again and I’ll wash your
mouth out with soap.
• Shut the door! I’m not heating (air
conditioning) the entire neighborhood!
• Sit like a lady!
• So it’s raining? You’re not sugar —
you won’t melt.
• Someday your face will freeze like
that!
• There’s enough dirt in those ears to
grow potatoes!
• This hurts me more than it hurts you.
• What if everyone jumped off a cliff?
Would you do it, too?
• What part of NO don’t you
understand?
• When you have your own house then
you can make the rules!

• Who died and left you boss?
• Why? Because I said so, that’s
why?
• You can be anything you want to, if
you just set your mind to it.
• You had better wipe that smile off
your face before I do it for you.
• You must think rules are made to
be broken.
• You will ALWAYS be my baby.
• You won’t be happy until you break
that, will you?
• You’d forget your head if it wasn’t
attached to your shoulders!
• Your father is going to hear about
this when HE gets home!
• You’re going to put your eye out
with that thing!
• I LOVE YOU!

Application
God gives us instructions and
takes care of us, just like our
mothers do. Everything he says
can be trusted and is for our
benefit. We should be thankful to
God for mothers to take care of
us. They might not always be
perfect as God is, but they do
love us and are a little bit of
heaven on earth.

This Mother’s Day teaching
activity can be a Children’s
Sermon or a reminder for
any day that mothers look
after us just as the
Heavenly Father does.

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