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Moms inherit(something passes from one generation to another) words of wisdom"What goes around comes around" may be true for mothering styles(inherit)    
If you’re a mother, you’ve probalbly had a moment when you said to yourself, "I sound just like my mother!"    It’s understandable. In the task of mothering, the hours are long, the training takes place on the job, and such virtues(qualities a person has) as patience are sometimes in short supply.    Mothers often have to draw on reserves of strength they didn’t know they had. Those reserves are often built on advice from their mothers--sometimes sage, sometimes silly, but always memorable.
A mother’s influence    
’Functioning(put into practice) at a higher spiritual level is a piece of cake if you don’t have kids," says Lynn Casebeer, mother of a 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter. "So sometimes, when I don’t know what to do, I find myself thinking ’How did my mom do this?’"     Casebeer says she often doesn’t recognize her mother’s influence until after she calls on(try to remember) it. "I do remember her telling me about responsibility. When I didn’t want to do the baby-sitting job I had gotten, she would tell me that ’sometimes in life you need to do thihgs you don’t want to do. You’ve made the commitment and you have to carry it out.’    "Through my life, I’ve remembered that and taught it to my kids."
A mother’s values    
Margaret Fitzwater said the values of her mother "have had a huge impact on me. Sometimees, I would (or will) unconsciously do something like my mother and realize it later."Now, as a mother of two teenage sons, she recalls her mother using a few classic sayings. "I do remember, ’This will hurt me more than it will hurt you.’    "But mostly, my mom taught me to be active and involved in my kids’ lives," she says.
A mother’s legacy(possitive influence)    
"The negativity that used to surround ’I’ve become my mother’ is disappearing," says Gail Mruphy-Geiss, mother of two teens and an assistant professor of sociology(discipline of society) at Colorado College. "Some new research shows the generation gap between parent and child is no as vast. I’mnot as distant with my kids as my mother and generations before that."    So will dotay’s teenage girls use their moms’ idioms proudly? They probably will.
Motherly wisdom---Warnings
"Don’t sit too close to the television; it’ll ruin your eyes.""If you stick your tongue out again it will fall off.""Always wear clean underwear in case you are in an accident.""Don’t cross your eyes, or they’ll freeze that way.""You’re going to put your eye out with that thing!"---Declarations"Beds are not made for jumping on.""Do as I say, not as I do.""Don’t talk with your mouth full!""Don’t walk away when I’m talking to you!""I don’t care what ’everyone’ is doing. I care what you are doing!""I hope someday you have children just like you.""I’m doing this for your own good.""I’m not your maid!""Money donesn’t grow on trees.""Put that down! You don’t know where it’s been.""You can’t start the day on an empty stomach.""Don’t make me come in there.""Go ask your father.""If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times.""If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all."---Questions"If Sarah’s mom let her jump off a cliff, would you want me to let you do it too?""What part of ’no’ don’t you understand?""Do you think I’m made of money?""Do you think your socks are going to pick themselves up?""Are you going out dressed like that?""Close the door. Were you born in a barn?""Are your hands broken? Pick it up.""How can you have nothing to wear? Your closet is full of clothes!""Why? Because I said so."

from Advanced Studio Classroom May, by Deb Acord/2006, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Services International. Those wisdom Mom’s told me before and I’ve told or will to Leia now and in the future.