Comments on: What phrases get uttered most in your home? http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/ Curious | Cute | Comical | Crazy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Amy http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-184246 Amy Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:00:28 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-184246 At work: "Shhhhhhh" and "Be quiet, *please*" (guess where I work) At home: "Monkey, NO" (Monkey is my cat) At work: “Shhhhhhh” and “Be quiet, *please*” (guess where I work)
At home: “Monkey, NO” (Monkey is my cat)

]]> By: Adrienne http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45211 Adrienne Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:28:54 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45211 From the 11-year-old: "What's for lunch?" "What's for dinner?" "What's for dessert?" closely followed by (in a disappointed voice) "Oh." From the 11-year-old:
“What’s for lunch?”
“What’s for dinner?”
“What’s for dessert?”

closely followed by
(in a disappointed voice)
“Oh.”

]]> By: Kimiko http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45062 Kimiko Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:41:58 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45062 "Where's Hannah? Peekaboo!" Such is life with a 13-month-old! I also walk around with songs like "The Itsy, Bitsy Spider" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" stuck in my head all day. “Where’s Hannah? Peekaboo!”

Such is life with a 13-month-old! I also walk around with songs like “The Itsy, Bitsy Spider” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” stuck in my head all day.

]]> By: Kevin Ring http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45047 Kevin Ring Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:50:02 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45047 We don't put ______ on your brother. No touching faces. This is a chance to obey your mother (or father). We don’t put ______ on your brother.
No touching faces.
This is a chance to obey your mother (or father).

]]> By: Lindsey Swinborne http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45043 Lindsey Swinborne Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:03:11 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45043 Those two are the same most-used phrases in our home. Leave your brother alone! Stop yelling or use your inside voice! Those two are the same most-used phrases in our home.
Leave your brother alone!
Stop yelling or use your inside voice!

]]> By: carissa http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45033 carissa Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:25:59 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45033 nope, and only six weeks of marriage down. :] nope, and only six weeks of marriage down. :]

]]> By: Chris http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45026 Chris Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:52:14 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45026 When the kids were a little younger: Can't was killed in the Battle of Try. Everything is hard before it is easy. Everyone look out your own window. (To calm down squabbles in the car.) No eating after 8. I want to have lunch in peace. When the kids were a little younger:

Can’t was killed in the Battle of Try.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Everyone look out your own window. (To calm down squabbles in the car.)

No eating after 8.

I want to have lunch in peace.

]]> By: Chris http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-45024 Chris Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:46:44 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-45024 Ginger needs water. (Ginger is our pet terrier/German pinscher.) Ginger needs water.

(Ginger is our pet terrier/German pinscher.)

]]> By: Tony C http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44986 Tony C Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:41 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44986 "'Can I see if can play?'" was supposed to be, "Can I see if (fillinname) can play?" “‘Can I see if can play?’” was supposed to be, “Can I see if (fillinname) can play?”

]]> By: Tony C http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44985 Tony C Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:42:12 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44985 "That noise means he doesn't like you doing that." "Can I see if can play?" "Should you be picking your nose?" “That noise means he doesn’t like you doing that.”

“Can I see if can play?”

“Should you be picking your nose?”

]]> By: Andrea Bindewald http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44969 Andrea Bindewald Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:12:45 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44969 Bo...take that our of your mouth. Don't sit on your brother. Shhh... Joel is sleeping. Be nice to the kitty. I love you. NO. It's a airplane mommy, a airplane!!!!!! What's that? Where's Daddy? Bo…take that our of your mouth.
Don’t sit on your brother.
Shhh… Joel is sleeping.
Be nice to the kitty.
I love you.
NO.
It’s a airplane mommy, a airplane!!!!!!
What’s that?
Where’s Daddy?

]]> By: Emily http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44968 Emily Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:53:23 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44968 car, you and kev are too cute. and this was funny. car, you and kev are too cute. and this was funny.

]]> By: Dorothy http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44962 Dorothy Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:21:44 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44962 "Point down!" (6 boys) "Ask..Ask..Ask" "Have you spoken to your brother?" (As in don't tattle until you have tried to solve this on your own.) "Where is Lily?" followed closely by "Where is Jerry?!" “Point down!” (6 boys)
“Ask..Ask..Ask”
“Have you spoken to your brother?” (As in don’t tattle until you have tried to solve this on your own.)
“Where is Lily?” followed closely by “Where is Jerry?!”

]]> By: Charles Vanderford http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44961 Charles Vanderford Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:55:18 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44961 "Are you okay?" Most often from me, an overly concerned husband and dad. “Are you okay?”

Most often from me, an overly concerned husband and dad.

]]> By: Sarah http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44958 Sarah Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:15:20 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44958 "How do you ask?" (8 children and several with speech issues) “How do you ask?”

(8 children and several with speech issues)

]]> By: andrea http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44955 andrea Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:58:47 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44955 Sarah: "Where is the 'dang' remote??" Sarah: "We should have Molly and Abraham over!" Sarah: "Can somebody do the recycling please!?" Sarah: “Where is the ‘dang’ remote??”

Sarah: “We should have Molly and Abraham over!”

Sarah: “Can somebody do the recycling please!?”

]]> By: amandaginn http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44942 amandaginn Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:28:53 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44942 "Don't eat it!" “Don’t eat it!”

]]> By: Valerie http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44941 Valerie Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:34 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44941 "pick up your socks" "hang your towel up, please" "you guys are slobs' "Do I always have to do everything?" ~ mother of 3 teenage boys “pick up your socks”

“hang your towel up, please”

“you guys are slobs’

“Do I always have to do everything?”

~ mother of 3 teenage boys

]]> By: Kari P. http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44939 Kari P. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:02:43 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44939 OWEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the dog) OWEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the dog)

]]> By: jason http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44935 jason Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:08 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44935 I've recently started saying, "Hug your sister" when my girls are getting on one another's nerves. That's probably not always best, but it does usually lighten the moment. I’ve recently started saying, “Hug your sister” when my girls are getting on one another’s nerves. That’s probably not always best, but it does usually lighten the moment.

]]> By: Megan http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44934 Megan Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:06:05 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44934 "Isn't anybody going to answer the phone?" “Isn’t anybody going to answer the phone?”

]]> By: Andy http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44933 Andy Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:02:29 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44933 "SSSSSSssssssssshhhhh." We have three boys 7 and under. “SSSSSSssssssssshhhhh.” We have three boys 7 and under.

]]> By: Sandra http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44931 Sandra Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:46:48 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44931 To my almost 4 year old, "Get out of your brother's space," which evolved from "Stop touching your brother." I needed a phrase that actually made him stop touching and back away. To my 2 year old, "Get that out of your mouth." To my almost 4 year old, “Get out of your brother’s space,” which evolved from “Stop touching your brother.” I needed a phrase that actually made him stop touching and back away.

To my 2 year old, “Get that out of your mouth.”

]]> By: ED... (who blogs at Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity) http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44926 ED... (who blogs at Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:58:52 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44926 No kids yet, huh? No kids yet, huh?

]]> By: Crystal http://twentytwowords.com/2009/10/14/what-phrases-get-uttered-most-in-your-home/#comment-44922 Crystal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:45:19 +0000 http://twentytwowords.com/?p=4745#comment-44922 I'd say those two hover around the top of our list. I'd have to add "Let's be gentle." I’d say those two hover around the top of our list. I’d have to add “Let’s be gentle.”

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