What was your Mum’s favourite advice for keeping your home and family happy and healthy?

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Mum knows best… particularly when it comes to clean, healthy homes. We’d like to know your Mum’s favourite advice for keeping your home and family healthy and happy.

Answer 1

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The follwong are some of the comments my mother made to my siblings and I when we were small:

Make sure to change your underwear always; you never know when you'll have an accident.
Don't make that face or it'll solidify in that position.
Be careful or else you'll put your eye out.
What if everyone jumped into a well? Would you do it, too?
You have enough filth behind those ears to grow potatoes!
Shut the door! Were you born in a tent? We want to heat the house not the whole town.
If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
Don't put that thing in your mouth; you don't know where it's been!

As we got older she had a few more pearls of wisdom to share with us. Some of them were:

Appreciate your grandparents. You'll really miss them someday. ( I miss them dreadfully)
No-one will ever love you like your mother.(Maternal instinct is stronger than any force known to man)
Always accept a compliment with grace.
Flush public toilets with your foot. When washing your hands use a paper towel to turn off the tap.
Of the men in my sisters and my life: the way he treats his mother is how he will treat you one day.
Never become so dependent on another person that you wouldn't know how to live if they were gone.
Always finish. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.

Mother's advice is like salt--free-flowing, indispensable for preserving and protecting, useless if not used, and immeasurably missed when it's gone. Like any spice, a mother's advice adds flavour to the stew of life, and children who fail to take their mother's advice usually live to regret it.

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Great advice!

Answer 2

Mum believes you should clean the house from top to bottom every week to ensure order in your life. When we were younger we were each given a chore - cleaning the bathrooms or vacuuming or dusting however none of us thought cleaning was quite as important as dear old mum so we never did a very good job and used to complain that once a week was far too often. As an adult though, I've become the same way! I notice that after a week the bathroom gets filthy and everything needs a good old once over. I'm not as fastidious as mum but I definitely got the clean genes from her!

Answer 3

An apple a day keeps the doctor away =]
She also taught us to respect each other and realize that family is definitely the most important thing, and w/o family, friends aren't quite as dependable.

Mom also INSISTED on not eating too much junk food, and she really did teach us to respect our bodies and only put into it what she thought would help it out, not hinder it.
I think that it really stuck a cord when she told us that our bodies are like...our gift from God. And so of course you should take care of it. That's why none of us drank (excessively) because she wanted us to realize that us kids needed to respect our bodies, and only put into them what will help, rather than hinder.

The best thing Mom ever did?
She never FORCED us to do anything.
She always said, 'Your body, Your choice'. She never forced us to clean up our room, to not have sex or even not to drink underage.
She always said, it's your body and it's your choice.
With the respect that she gave us, all of us siblings really wanted to let her know that the respect that she gave us was deserved.
It's definitely something I plan on doing with my daughters when they are old enough.

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Answer 4

are you stuck in the 1950's or sumthing?

Answer 5

I grew up with 5 siblings, and my mom would always say "Life isn't fair." whenever we complained about something stupid, like how Gillian got more spending money, or more presents. :)

Answer 6

Never got that from her.

Answer 7

My mum's favorite advice to this day is to "marry a rich man and everything else would take care of itself."

Suprised she didn't start a golddiggers league

Answer 8

Mum always said look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves, then we would all have to help with the housework so we could enjoy a family weekend together

Answer 9

Well she used to say 'Stay the hell out of my room mut!' Of course, it was probably the drugs talking.

Answer 10

Mum used to tell us to always keep the kitchen and bathroom sink clean and the beds made daily and then do the whole house on the weekends.
Always wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident.
Always have clean shoes as women notice dirty shoes.

Answer 11

well... it wasn't spraying chemicals around the place...

Healthy was good food and exercise, happy was encouragement and appreciation.

Answer 12

By not using glen 20
it is crap

Answer 13

My mum always said "never put your fingers in your mouth" (like a lot of kids lick their fingers after eating) I can't stand it when people do this, the amount of bacteria your hands collect throughout the day from touching different things is astronomical!!

Answer 14

you wont like me when im angry...

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arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr LMFAO

Answer 15

My mother had never given any advice at all because she had a mental illness. We were left to fend for ourselves and do the best we could with the limited resources that were available to less fortunate people.

Answer 16

Easy. Her best advice was saying, "I'm the boss of this household". You know what? She was. She knew and continues to know what's best. Why would i not listen to her wise words.

Answer 17

My dad is more of the advice giver..
*he always told me to never ever depend on a man.
*Always have enough skill and education to be able to take care or your kids and yourself alone, if need be.
know the person your going to marry. Know how they handle their anger.
*Don't have kids until you can take care of them all by yourself.
*Get an education. Know as much as you can. Don't ever stop learning
*Do something you love. If you can dream it, you can make it happen.
*Make sure your always there for your kids. Be a good mommy, or don't have any.
*Be smart and careful no matter where you go, people will always try to take advantage of you.
*Eat right, and exercise, and you will always be healthy.
*Never spray your house with pesticides, or chemicals,that stick around [like bug spray] unless you enjoy cancer.
*Stand up for yourself. If you cant, hire a Professional boxer to take care of the asshole. [LOL thats my favorite]

I also have 1 sister, he told me no matter what, even after he's gone, to always stay close to my sister.

Oh yea! He also said that although he doesn't condone it, if im ever going to do something illegal, MAKE SURE you don't get caught.

Source(s):

Daddy, Engineer/Car, and airplane Mechanic

Answer 18

She never gave us advice, only thing she'd say would be after we needed advice which was usually too let..hehehe

Answer 19

There was no drugs in my house hold (beer and smokes) and the absent of this culture deter me from the aussie stereotype nature. Which is sence as cultural cringe to those Australian who are embarrass at recent report of rude and offencive behaviour of these Aussie traveling overseas and here at home(Crollula riots)

Answer 20

Well, my entire family are 'neat freaks'.
So my mum doesn't really need to give us advice on cleaning up.
I had to share a room with my older sister, who is the biggest neat freak so our room would ALWAYS be tidy.
It was good sharing a room with her because my sister would always keep our room neat and tidy, so my mum didn't have to nag about cleaning our room.
But now, I don't share a room with her, it should be a good thing that I don't, but I find that it has some disadvantages... ;)

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Answer 21

Mum's best advice was be energetic - Get up, dress up and show up for the day!! None of this mopping around. Clean one room a day. Respect your family enough to want to keep the place clean and cook great meals - and this applies to all members of the family. You are a team, work together.
Plan fun stuff together. Play games - both physical and board games etc. No one is to be a martyr and be the slave to the family. All help out.
Always be excited to see your family members - never put them down. Never say shut up, give them the right to be heard.
Grow as many vegies as possible and eat lots. We are almost NEVER sick. Keep healthy and don't imagine you are sick when you are fine :)

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Advice from my family and what they role modelled.

Answer 22

Polishing the lino, it seemed like every day.
Work hard and keep healthy
We were raised on home cooked food and home grown veggies
An apple a day keeps the dr. away - we had a plum tree!

Answer 23

Mum always advise me not to come close to any bad boy not to smoke ...not to Drink not to hang out with bad friends!

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My mind :)

Answer 24

I am a mum so my advice would be to make sure everyone in the house smiles during the day - stays happy and fulfilled and healthy by eating healthy meals. Laughter is the best medicine. Keep your home germ free but not sterile cause we all need a little bit of germs to keep our immunity strong.

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I am a mum of 2

Answer 25

By keeping our environment clean we minimise the germs but she taught us also to use cleaners that aren't too harsh and toxic.she also taught us that.there is a place for everything and everything in it's place...."there is always a place for Glen 20..kitchen bathroom..yes even the bedroom..great to use Glen 20 on bedroom surfaces especially if a family member has a virus etc..I love the smell of glen20..always reminds me of my childhood...

Answer 26

Our mom was a single mom and there were loads and loads of us kids to feed which made things pretty tough.

We couldn't afford to catch the bus to school, so we had to walk 10kms to school every day in the snow....and we had to carry the horse.

Being a good catholic, our mom really did her bit to spice the matrimonial fruitbasket.
Nearest I could count was eleven of us kids, but it was hard to get them all to sit still to count 'em.

One time I asked our mom who was my dad. She thought a minute then said...C'mon then, give me a hint..what's your name.

To keep the numbers down, every Friday night us kids would all join in and have these fun blindfolded three legged 'running with knives' races.

Mom's best advice was.....erm.....

"Don't all sit at the dinner table at the same time....There's a floor load limit."

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Answer 27

Don't go overboard on the cleaning products

Answer 28

Ritilin

Answer 29

Don't eat the yellow snow.

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Mum.

Answer 30

be a happy, hugging, kissing couple in front of your children so that can experience the closeness between the two of you. it makes them feel safe, secure and happy. have fun as a family no matter what you are doing at the time.

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came from a happy home and have one now.

Answer 31

Laugh, sing and dance...even if the floor caves in!