Parent Ministry Ideas - Sayings of Mothers

Parent Ministry
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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