"Love you, have a good day. Make sure you look both ways" Or sometimes end with "don't get hit by a car"
LOL I say “love you, don’t get run over” probably once a week, too. Junior high Drop off is crazy. DD DOES replies to that and is like yes great advice.
"Love you, have a good day. Make sure you look both ways" Or sometimes end with "don't get hit by a car"
LOL I say “love you, don’t get run over” probably once a week, too. Junior high Drop off is crazy. DD DOES replies to that and is like yes great advice.
Lol my aunt tells my teenage daredevil cousin "I love you, dead is forever". 😂
Usually just, “Love you, have a great day!” Occasionally I throw in a “Remember, what’s the MOST important thing to be?” And one of them rolls his eyes and mutters and the other happily chirps, “Kind.”
all the usual "I love you, see you after school" stuff, but I also always add a "DON'T YOU DARE HAVE ANY FUN TODAY!" to which he always smiles and says "don't worry, I WILL!!"
"Bye! Did you brush your hair? Oh you did, good. Wait, go put some socks on! No you can not skip wearing socks!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!"
I had no idea people say "I love you" to their kids every day. I can hear my mother's voice in my head saying "oh that's what Americans do." So much love, this must be why the people in the drop off line take forever.
"Bye! Did you brush your hair? Oh you did, good. Wait, go put some socks on! No you can not skip wearing socks!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!"
I had no idea people say "I love you" to their kids every day. I can hear my mother's voice in my head saying "oh that's what Americans do." So much love, this must be why the people in the drop off line take forever.
Morbid, but I have this fear of something happening to me and my last time seeing my kid being at drop off. So at least the last thing he'll remember mommy saying is "I love you".
"Bye! Did you brush your hair? Oh you did, good. Wait, go put some socks on! No you can not skip wearing socks!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!"
I had no idea people say "I love you" to their kids every day. I can hear my mother's voice in my head saying "oh that's what Americans do." So much love, this must be why the people in the drop off line take forever.
Morbid, but I have this fear of something happening to me and my last time seeing my kid being at drop off. So at least the last thing he'll remember mommy saying is "I love you".
And now I'm tearing up thinking about it.
We say "I love you" multiple times a day in our household. I say it every time I get off the phone with my Dad, still. It's a holdover from growing up for me. My mom wasn't always the best mom, but she frequently told me she loved me. In fact, after my mom passed away, I had an old friend reach out and tell me they always remembered how often we said "I love you" in my house, and how now they do it with their kids. That made my heart warm.
"I love you, have a good day, make good choices" Bc my 11 year old REALLY needs the reminder to make good choices.
My oldest leaves for morning swim practice before I am awake so I usually send her a text at some point in a the morning that says "Love you, miss your face" and send her a funny video or meme. I didn't realize how much she looked forward to those videos until I didn't send her one last week, and she was bummed. She looks forward to my texts, people! My 15 year old WANTS me to send her funny videos. Mom win!
"Bye! Did you brush your hair? Oh you did, good. Wait, go put some socks on! No you can not skip wearing socks!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!"
I had no idea people say "I love you" to their kids every day. I can hear my mother's voice in my head saying "oh that's what Americans do." So much love, this must be why the people in the drop off line take forever.
I have a funny story regarding this. My parents rarely (if ever?) said I love you when I was growing up. Indian immigrant parents, so maybe that's why. When I was in college and dating H, I always said "I love you, bye!" to him when we said goodbye on the phone. One day I was talking to my mom on the phone and I accidentally said "I love you, bye!" to her out of habit. After a short pause, she replied with "I love you too". And that's how we started saying I love you every time we talk on the phone. It still makes me laugh that it was an accident.
H does morning drop off and when DD1 was in K, I started waving goodbye from the front door and yelling "I love you! Have a good day!" and blowing kisses. It stuck, and now do it every morning for the kids (whoever is home waves from the front door). I hope we do it forever.
Post by winemaker06 on Oct 24, 2023 20:49:46 GMT -5
My 7yo daughter has a long bedtime spiel of “Goodnight. Sweet dreams. Have a good day tomorrow” (plus more!) mostly because I leave for work early and don’t always see her in the mornings. So now when she is up early and I see her, I tell her to “Have a good day today” which usually gets a smile.
For my middle schooler (bus), I say some version of “I love you, can’t wait to see you after school”. Then generally as he’s walking down the driveway, I open the door and tell him to have a great [insert random holiday] day!” We’ve got one of those tear-off calendars with the daily obscure holidays sitting right by the door.
This morning, it’ll be “Happy Chucky the Notorious Killer Doll Day! Celebrate Well!!”
Occasionally I’ll mix it up with “Don’t kiss your teacher today!” “Please don’t pull down anyone’s pants at school!” Or “Only eat your boogers when no one is looking” or a similar potentially super embarrassing reminder. (There are only a few kids in our neighborhood, they’re all friends, and they’re all aware of how ridiculous I am. I would NOT do this if there were kids that don’t know him/us well around (or when we’ve had a bad morning)..
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Oct 25, 2023 10:18:13 GMT -5
I had to think about what I actually say, but I'm pretty sure it's "Bye, sweetheart, I love you! Have a good day!!"
My reminders to "hurry up and get to class we're late" or "remember to ask about that homework problem!" come before that. My actual goodbye comes as she's hopping out the door and walking away. The goodbye kiss comes as soon as we turn off the main road onto school property and I let her unbuckle. I get the quickest kiss imaginable, then she spends the next minute (or however long it takes to get to the front of the line where I drop her off) loving on the dog sitting in the front seat beside me.
When my kids have a big test, I have a super embarrassing song I made up that I sing to them for the last minute or two we're in the car telling them they're going to rock the test. They roll their eyes and tell me they hate it, but then later they'll tell me they don't want me to stop doing it.
I drop him off and usually say “I love you” and a variation of have a good day, I’ll see you after school, be a good listener, or have fun. He’s 6 so he also lets me kiss him goodbye.
"Bye! Did you brush your hair? Oh you did, good. Wait, go put some socks on! No you can not skip wearing socks!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!"
I had no idea people say "I love you" to their kids every day. I can hear my mother's voice in my head saying "oh that's what Americans do." So much love, this must be why the people in the drop off line take forever.
Morbid, but I have this fear of something happening to me and my last time seeing my kid being at drop off. So at least the last thing he'll remember mommy saying is "I love you".
And now I'm tearing up thinking about it.
Same here.
I didn’t used to say it. But when my parents died last year I had all of this anxiety and really big feelings about how you never know when it’s the last time you see someone.
Now, when saying goodbye when I leave the house or drop them off, or going to bed, the last thing I say to them is I love you. I don’t know, I know it’s weird but it makes me feel better.
Sometimes also - “you have (a game/practice) tonight. Drink lots of water.”
I don't always talk to my kids in the morning but when I do drop them off it's just "I love you, have a great day."
My sophomore is terrible about drinking water, but is a runner, so I often remind him to drink water during XC season, especially if he has a meet that day or the next.