5 Modern Versions of Tired Parenting Cliches

Don’t ask your kid how their day was

Brianna Sharpe
Forge
Published in
6 min readApr 19, 2019

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Photo by Jesús Rodríguez on Unsplash

Most parents have a list of phrases they heard and hated in childhood — and then vowed never to use on their own kids. Things that annoyed them, or frustrated them, or just felt like an arbitrary imposition of rules: Because I said so. Don’t make me turn this car around. If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you?

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Brianna Sharpe
Forge
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Freelance writer, educator, community organizer, chronically caffeinated parent. She/her. @sharpe_bri www.briannasharpe.com