Safety Advice from your Mother

[CarolinaKat]

So at work we're doing a safety awareness campaign that's in support of Mother's Day. We're supposed to write down bits of safty knowledge/warnings/advice that our Mom's gave is (presumably as children).

I don't remember Mom's safety approach cause Dad usually handled things with a "Go ahead. See where it gets you." I learned really quickly not to ever do anything that generated that warning.


What bits of safety advice did y'all get from your mom's (or dad's)?

[Shooby]

You'll shoot your eye out.

If your friend jumped off a cliff would you do it too?

Curiosity killed the cat.

[Deleted]

My mother cooked pork chops till they were pretty much dried out. Didn't want to get trichinosis, you know.

She was also convinced that we needed a hot, cooked dinner no matter what. On hot summer days with no A/C, it got pretty bad.

[bookkeeper]

As a mother myself, I have often used this one:

If you are going to do something stupid, make sure one person hangs back to take you to the emergency room.

From my mother, after I had gotten injured in a bar when people were fighting:

If you didn't hang out in those kinds of places, these kinds of things would not happen to you.

[NancysSummerSip]

Don't cross (or roll) your eyes at me, young lady! They'll freeze like that, and then what will you do??

Because of my eye surgery, I can no longer roll or cross my eyes anyway. Mom would be relieved to know this.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Keeping that mantra in my head has helped me avoid a lot of the traps friends fell into because they "needed" a man in their life.

Never leave your drink unattended. If you must, get a new one when you return.

[milee]

"First is a SQUARE gear!" (Usually shrieked at top volume when I was 15, learning to drive and trying to get the car into first gear after coming to a stop.)

I still don't know what exactly that means. If anybody can tell, me please let me in on the secret.

[bean29]

May 7, 2014 8:53:53 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Keeping that mantra in my head has helped me avoid a lot of the traps friends fell into because they "needed" a man in their life.

Never leave your drink unattended. If you must, get a new one when you return.

LOL my DH tells my Daughter Never to leave her drink unattended all the time.

Don't forget "A Man is not a plan"

[zibazinski]

May 7, 2014 8:53:53 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Keeping that mantra in my head has helped me avoid a lot of the traps friends fell into because they "needed" a man in their life.

Never leave your drink unattended. If you must, get a new one when you return.

I had a t shirt that said that. My dad told me about the drinks and I passed it own to DD.

[zibazinski]

My mom's was " A woman who depends on a man for a paycheck is one man away from welfare. " this, of course, was when welfare was shameful not life's work.

[busymom]

Look both ways before crossing the street.  Don't talk to strangers. A stranger never needs "help" (finding a puppy, kitten, etc.) Don't accept candy from strangers (except on Halloween).   If someone sitting in a car asks you a question, don't get close to the car to answer it.  If someone is bullying you in the neighborhood, come home & get me.  (Everyone was afraid of each other's moms when they were mad.)

As a teen learning to drive, it was "don't believe it when you see someone else using their turn signal, until they actually go into their turn" AND the ever classic "drive like everyone else is drunk, & you're the only sober driver on the road". 

[Deleted]

Those are good ones! 

[zibazinski]

Yes, they are!

[Deleted]

May 7, 2014 9:06:07 GMT -5 milee said:

"First is a SQUARE gear!" (Usually shrieked at top volume when I was 15, learning to drive and trying to get the car into first gear after coming to a stop.)

I still don't know what exactly that means. If anybody can tell, me please let me in on the secret.

Maybe that first is one of the "corners": first is usually left upper, second is left lower (other corner of the square) and 3rd can be in the middle so it wouldn't be in the "square", etc.??

[Wisconsin Beth]

"Run it under cold water" was pretty much Mom's response to any kind of non-head injury.  So we ran cuts, bumps, bruises, burns, etc under cold water.  The real reason she would tell us to do that was it gave her a couple of seconds to panic and then get the panic under control while we were in the bathroom.  Plus it got the water, grit/dirt out of the wounds. 

[Deleted]

wear clean underwear in case you get into a car accident.

[Deleted]

May 7, 2014 9:41:28 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

"Run it under cold water" was pretty much Mom's response to any kind of non-head injury. 

Even with a head injury, Mom said sometimes all the blood made the injury look a lot worse than it really was.  If you run it under cold water, you can get a good view of the actual damage.

[NastyWoman]

I got the clean underwear warning as well, together with never sit on the toilet seat when not at home -> you never know what disease you could pick up! 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

"The clutch will NEVER move", told to me from my dad while he was teaching me to drive a standard.  I kept looking at my feet while learning to drive it.

My current car is an automatic, after driving a standard for nearly 20 years.  I called my dad not long afterwards to tell him that "the clutch moved".

[swasat]

Your body is your own. Except for parents and the doctor, nobody should have access to it without your permission

Anytime my brother whined about homework, mom would say: You are not studying for me!! You are studying for yourself!!

Dad loved using this one formTHE Cosby Show: YOU are not rich. Your mom and I are rich. YOU have NOTHING.

[Sunnyday]

don't drink hot water from the tap.

[Wisconsin Beth]

May 7, 2014 10:08:55 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

May 7, 2014 9:41:28 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

"Run it under cold water" was pretty much Mom's response to any kind of non-head injury. 

Even with a head injury, Mom said sometimes all the blood made the injury look a lot worse than it really was.  If you run it under cold water, you can get a good view of the actual damage.

True but we couldn't fit our heads under the faucet in the bathroom sink. 

[justme]

Heh, my parents had to stop using the jump off a cliff saying because once I got older I started responding "If there was water on the bottom and I saw they weren't hitting anything - hell yes!" followed by just in the last year or two "well...I did jump off that railroad bridge several times after my friends did, so yes!"

In college it was never walk to your car alone at night or go to a party alone. Also the drink thing.

[Sam_2.0]

Nothing good happens after midnight. I always thought they were being old and crabby, but looking back it really was true

[swasat]

May 7, 2014 10:50:19 GMT -5 Sam_2.0 said:

Nothing good happens after midnight. I always thought they were being old and crabby, but looking back it really was true

I had all my college fun AFTER midnight  

[Deleted]

Good, no. Fun? Most Definitely!!! 

[Tennesseer]

May 7, 2014 9:25:21 GMT -5 busymom said:

Look both ways before crossing the street.  Don't talk to strangers. A stranger never needs "help" (finding a puppy, kitten, etc.) Don't accept candy from strangers (except on Halloween).   If someone sitting in a car asks you a question, don't get close to the car to answer it.  If someone is bullying you in the neighborhood, come home & get me.  (Everyone was afraid of each other's moms when they were mad.)

As a teen learning to drive, it was "don't believe it when you see someone else using their turn signal, until they actually go into their turn" AND the ever classic "drive like everyone else is drunk, & you're the only sober driver on the road". 

My mother told me that too.  I forgot that warning and paid the price (age five).

[swasat]

May 7, 2014 10:52:42 GMT -5 @beerwench said:

Good, no. Fun? Most Definitely!!! 

beer, I disagree most whole heartedly   Going out on a walk with the then BF at 2 am in the morning was most definitely good and fun. Late night tv surfing with friends and eating pizza at 3 am, talking romantic stuff with the BF, dreaming dreams for the future.....sigh.......what a nice life....

Of course there was bad stuff too, that I am most conveniently filtering out

[swamp]

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Righty tighty, lefty loosey. That shuts off the pouring water really quick.

[Phoenix84]

Look both ways before crossing the street was a big one I remember, and be sure to turn off the stove.