Judy B. made me think up this one. Like my mom would scare the he** out of us when we were young. We stayed with friends in the city once and tried some vodka (or was it tequila? Not sure what it was but it tasted terrible) anyway we went back home and my mom said, "Last night I had a dream an old man was trying to force blue liquid down my throat. Which one of you drank?" We all gave one another that guilty look, I took the fall for my brothers.
I used to look around before doing something *cough* not so good, because I wondered if my mom was following us to know the things she did.
Mothers and Fathers, do you have anything like this with your own?
2007-11-08 07:11:54 · 22 answers · asked by Wickwire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Papucho I inwardly cringe when someones name and avatar is way better than mine. Nice.
2007-11-08 07:27:08 · update #1
Southern Comfort I chocked on my tea with your last comment.
2007-11-08 08:15:06 · update #2
This question really made me smile. Because my mom just didn't have that kind of intuition, or what ever we all may call it. BUT I DID! I just KNOW when my MOM was gonna be bad! And I never failed to find her NO MATTER where she went! Now, she wasn't hiding from us or anything, just when she was out & about I could find her no matter what!! She thought it was spooky.
And she wasn't a bad mother, or up to anything illegal or anything, I could just tell, or KNOW when she was up to tricks!
I have this same thing with my children. When my first daughter was just a tiny baby, mom was holding her and I heard has say to Tiffany, "Now you better grow to be a good girl, cause your momma has some sort of magic" And it made us laugh then!
To this day my mom talks about how I can hunt her down anytime I want, or if there is trouble brewing I feel it.
Once I had a very bad feeling about my daughter (youngest one) she was 13 at the time. It wasn't a feeling like she was up too no good, I was anxious, couldn't stop thinking about her.
I called her cell phone numerous times and left message after message w/o any response. (ph. @ hm w/ ringer off)
I was at a friends house, my son was with me. My friend thought I was just having an anxiety attack of some sort (I don't have any anxiety disorders or anything) and my son told her, no something must be wrong. Cause my mom just KNOWS! Well, my husband called and said that she forgot her cell phone at home, left about only 15 minutes ago ( I was trying to get her for about an hour by then!)
Well since he said that she just went to a friends house I tried to calm down and just couldn't. About 1.5 hours after I started having this awful feeling I get a call from one of her friends who was with her, they took my daughters 4-wheeler out, and she had let this girl drive who had NO EXPERIENCE it was -15 degrees out. November 9th, 2004.
The phone call was to tell me that they had wrecked the bike, into a bull-dozer, and Leigh-tiana was hurt! BAD!
10min later the ambulance called and said not to cometo the scene to go straight to the hospital!
She was injured badly, (THANK GOD for helmets!) and had hypothermia to boot!
That is one of the examples that I can give of knowing y kids are in trouble!
I think a lot of parents have it not just moms! Dads too are very sensitive to their children & their needs!
Great question!!
2007-11-08 18:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by Tonia M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, with my two daughters....I knew when they had a secret or, had been doing something they shouldn't have been doing! For mine, when they were small, it was the body language which told the story. Like : Did you get a cookie?...No Mom, (as she hid it securely, with both hands, behind her back!) Then, the times when they would back out of the room with only one hand behind the back.
Now, when they would scream, I knew the difference between the sounds of the screams. The hurt scream, the frightened scream and the angered scream! I also knew when one of them was sick. Cindy's eyes got watery and Missy's ears got red, from fever!
It's all the little things they say and do which helps us develop more intuitive feelings! Now, my girls are 34 and 35....I just feel and know, in my heart, when something is not right. It is usually in the sound of my girls voices! Other times, I cannot get one of them out of my mind and I call. Sure enough, during the conversation, they always share what is hurting them or, a situation they are needing advice about and did not want to tell anyone.
There are many reasons we, Mom's, know more about our children than what they think we do!
2007-11-08 12:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My kids never got away with anything...poor dears.
I was the mother of 2 before I was 23...so by the time my kids reached those "difficult" years, I wasn't so far away from my own that I knew what to expect.
In addition, both were terrible liars and didn't try it much.
I knew where my kids were all the time, who they were with. They had strict curfew. If one of them said they were going to someones house, I would make the call to that house after an hour or so....talk to the parents...if no parent was there, my kid came home.
If they were going to a school function, I'd drop by and say "HI".....
They never knew when my husband or I might show up. Darn few goofs, I'll tell ya.
2007-11-08 16:00:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wickwire dear, you know that Mothers ALL have eyes in the back of their heads. So do Fathers, except they have a little bit more trouble covering them up.
I have a set of twins in my complex and it is totally amazing to them, the things that I see and hear. They just can't understand that it's all a part of being cognizant of what's going on in this life. They are too young to understand this, they are barely in their teens. They ask how I know this, that or the other and I just tell them it's because I have eyes in the back of my head and they just look at me totally bewildered.
Alas, I have found, sadly, that many of the younger women do not have maternal instincts and this scares me. Both parent and child miss out when this happens.
2007-11-08 07:24:18 · answer #4 · answered by Cranky 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I really think it is a natural gift of moms. Kids always wonder how we know things! I guess having been kids ourselves once helps a lot. But I do get certain feelings and my gut feeling is usually right on target. And no, we do not have eyes in the back of our heads! lol
2007-11-08 09:03:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always "just knew" when something was going on, with the girls, and it would blow them away.
On the other side, whenever one of them needed help, after they had left home, my gut feeling were always right, and I would call them and say. "Darling, what's wrong?". A silence would then follow, and then the problem would come out.
Mother's just KNOW. A God given instinct. I think. My mother was no push over either! Lovely question.
2007-11-08 11:30:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yeah...I had my own two convinced that I could see through walls...like with Xray vision. Now my grandsons are finding out the same thing about me, when actually it is a deep knowledge of human behaviour, and being able to listen to and BELIEVE that inner voice when it says that something is up! I have learned to judge lack of noise, or quality of noise, against instinct, and come up with the sure knowledge that they are up to no good.
It REALLY FREAKS the oldest one out when I can pin down EXACTLY what it is that he is doing that is against the rules JUST AS HE DOES IT!!
2007-11-08 08:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My oldest daughter says I knew what she was up to before she even entertained the idea. She did skip school just once and I confronted her as soon as she walked in the door. I must confess the next to last child was so sneaky though I think I got the wrong child from the hospital.
2007-11-08 07:50:39 · answer #8 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Well I will say my mom was GOOD......Like yours wickwire, she knew things as soon as I did them......at times she seemed to know them before I did them.....I used to think Da** she is good and she always scared me to death, so I tried to not do things I knew would get me in trouble.....
I have that same good instinct----My mother must of passed it down to me, cause I catch me daughter every time and she has no clue how and half the time she doesn't even know it is me that got her in trouble.......but she is a young adult, almost 18 and she needs me to watch out for her.....she is one of those "in her own world" kids, doesn't have clue about life, unless it has to do with her and shopping or trying to look cute......
very good ?
2007-11-08 08:00:58 · answer #9 · answered by Melissa R 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its actually wierd.. I dont know how to explain it but i know if one of my kids are into something.. with my son its actually easy, he is always quiet when he is up to something..
My girls i can just feel it cause they are so close in age that they try to cover up for eatch other but get eatch other in trouble.. i have to laugh though.. because one or the other always gives it away.. i know something is up but i can just tell by their face.. Its way too inocent.. and believe me there not innocent.. lol
Its fun being a parent
Deb :)
2007-11-08 17:14:00 · answer #10 · answered by debbie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋