Do you love to listen to your mother's stories?
By andak2007
@andak2007 (3229)
Philippines
September 2, 2008 2:09am CST
I am close to my mother although we sometimes argue and she is a gambler...but when i was like 9 to 10 years old, i really love it when she would tell us stories about her younger days and when she was just a child...she will tell me and my sister her old adventures together with her other sisters and brothers...of course they played so many games when they were children and i know it was so much fun...we would laugh so hard with her stories and even if we have heard it many times it is still so funny...what about you?do you like to listen to your mother's stories?
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12 responses
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
2 Sep 08
I always loved hearing about my mother's childhood, and the stories from then. I also used to love hearing the stories from my grandmother, about her childhood, and all her brothers and sister. Life on the family farm, after they moved to Ohio from Kentucky. Her father and brothers all worked in the coal mines, and they were from the Applalacian mountain areas. And no matter how many times she told the stories I always loved it, when I was little I would ask her to tell me about the olden days lol. There will always be stories to pass down from one generation to the next. I still remember most if not all of the stories my grandmother told me about her childhood.
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@andak2007 (3229)
• Philippines
2 Sep 08
its nice isn't it and somehow im to understand my mother, the way she is because of her stories...i plan to tell my children stories because i love to tell stories and i love it best when there eyes grow with excitement with everything that i tell them.
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@wiseshopping1 (679)
• China
3 Sep 08
yes, my mother's stories are my deepest memory of my childhood.
when my younger bother and i were young, my mother told stories for us very night.
stories were about outstanding persons, about fable tales, about jokings...
the stories were the cradlesong, without them we could fall a sleep.
what a sweet memory.
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@MOMMASAM (1004)
• United States
3 Sep 08
oh yes,
this carries on the family history.
we've often swapped recipes.
we made a cookbook of her mother's recipes.
and, gave a copy to my daughter when she got married.
i've learned much about saving money and survival from my mother.
there are many lessons to learn from listening.
i'm thankful i always listened, even when they were sad.
they always contained a lesson for me.
most of the time, she didn't even realize what valuable stories they were.
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@andak2007 (3229)
• Philippines
5 Sep 08
i like the idea of passing on family recipes...my mother is a very good cook and its her spaghetti that i like the most and well all of her cooking i like very much and i always watch when she cooks and i even help prepare so that i can learn...i hope that she would pass on her recipes to me...i will ask her tomorrow.LOL!
@shoepuff7 (44)
• United States
3 Sep 08
Yup! I love to listen to my mom's stories,its always new stories for her to tell me and it is so nice because even if they are not new I still like them!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Sep 08
hi andak my mom and grandpa have long been gone but my grandad an his kids came from Missouri in a covered wagon in the 1890s and by then they were few and far between. my grandpa used to tell me all sorts of stories about missouri in the late 1890s and I loved to listen. my mom worked as a telephone operator for a private phone co just before she married my dad.My dad also had some great storied as he was a country doctor who drove all over our county in South Dakota taking care of sick people. no farmers had to come in to town if my dad could get to their farms to care for them. He broke his arm winding up his moded t ford and had to have a farmer drive him back home. all sorts of great stories.
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@sanzi1201 (644)
• China
3 Sep 08
I am a good listener for my eldership.When I grow up,I could understand them .They become older and they beging to like to remind previous things.We should understand and as a good listener,I think.Hehe.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
3 Sep 08
I never listened as much as I should have, but now I wish that I had have listened to every word.. I lost my mother a year ago last Feb and I miss her so much.. She was always telling stories from her childhood and we didn't always pay as much attention as we should have.. Before she passed away, I had the opportunity to spend one 24 hour day with her each week, due to her failing health she couldn't be alone.. I did begin to listen closer than I ever had before and I got closer to her each time that I got to spend my day.. I enjoyed her so much.. I had been married for 40 years when she passed away and I really didn't spend that much time at her home since I had my own home, job and life.. She wasn't alone at the time and always had a houseful of people to spend time with.. But due to a troublemaking sister, there was a family split about 2 years before my mom passed away.. So that is the reason for the 24 hour period that we each got to spend with mom..
But as her health started failing and she couldn't do much except to talk and watch tv, we would talk all evening until she fell asleep.. I found out so much more about my mother when I really started listening much more closely.. She told some of the best stories and some of the saddest stories, mostly about her growing up years and how she lived during the depression.. I got so much closer to my mom during her sickness than I had in all of my years.. I do wish that I could hear her stories again and I wish that I could tell her stories also..
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@nightangle (80)
• Philippines
3 Sep 08
YEAH ! AND i ALWAYS missed her so whenever i have a time used to sit with her and talk and ask and im so eager to hear all whats happening to her and around her and I found hearing her heart too talking to me closely.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
2 Sep 08
I think a child normally loves to listen to stories from Mommies and old folks. I also do enjoyed that when I was a child. I would it at my Mom or Dad's feet to listen to their stories about the war, the pain they went through, their love stories, the good memories of their youth and so many other stories. In fact even my Aunt who was very fond of telling stories would almost always find me by her side listening very attentively when she started telling her stories about how my uncle courted her and a lot of other things that sounded so interesting to me. Now that I am a Mom myself, my son would tell me very often that he loved so much to hear me and his Dad talking about the stories of our yesteryears. So history is just repeating itself.
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@hellokake (10)
• India
2 Sep 08
Yes, I like my mother's Stories because they are very interesting. She use to tell us about her childhood and many people say that she was very beautiful in her childhood.
Here stories are very inspirational and that's why I like her stories.
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