What have you learned from your Mother/Grandmother you apply in your life?

My great grandma told me while I was helping her to do dishes, not to put sharp knives in dishwater, I would get cut and that when I put knives in the drainer to put them handle facing up.....I always put the handle facing up, made sense to me that no one would get cut getting other things out of the drainer. The other day I was doing dishes and put knives in the dishwater and guess what? I got cut pretty good.....guess I'll heed her advice....my grandma asked what happened to my hand and she just looked at me and calmly told me the story my great grandma told me about knives in the dishwater and how she had cut her hand and had to go get stitches (the only time in her life) So, I guess from now on, I'll be heeding that advice!

Hello a_mothertouch, I think I have learn a lot from my mom, but not my grandmother. I hardly meet my grandmother although we stay not too far from each others. I just not so close to her. For my mom, she teach me how to clean too! LOL. She is a person that likes all the thing in real clean, real hygiene. It is good to follow her way too. Bu for 1 thing I would not want to follow her, that is her too slow motion ! She can do the cleaning in so details until she gets all her things done in real slow! For example, she sometimes help me in cleaning my babies bottles. She uses the brush and brush here and there, taking so much time to just clean a few bottles! For me, I will clean it fast but of course must get the bottles clean enough too.

Yup...me too.....and I learned how to bake, cook, do laundry, iron, and tons of other things. My grandmother taught me to crochet....and my mom taught my girls....and I now am teaching my granddaughters....one is ten and she just went to town with it....the other is only four and she can chain but that's a good start!

I have learned many things from my mother. The most important ones are the aspects of not giving up immediately and doing things on my own. .. Now that I am also a mother, I am applying what I have learned from my mother: from sewing to baking and many other things.

From my mom, I learned to respect elders and young ones but respect to ourselves as well. As how would we expect others to respect us if we don't respect ourselves. Hello friend, a mother's touch once again.

Well I have never met any of my grandmothers because they passed away long before I was born, unfortunately :(. Anyways, I swear the saying is true, "Like Mother, Like Daughter". I swore I was never going to be like my mother, and yet here I am, spitting image of her! lol I didn't mean to be mean when I said I didn't want to be like her, it's just that she is super sensitive and sentimental at times and takes things to heart at the wrong times. WHICH IS HOW I AM! lol Not fair! lol She has taught me really good manners, respect in every way, patience, money doesn't bring happiness, and that honesty is always the best truth. I love and respect my mother for her ways, even though I used to say I never wanted to be that way myself lol.

From my grandmother I learned integrity. From my mother I learned true faith. I miss them both.