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Jamaican mothers are wonderful and the way in which they teach their children about life … priceless..
1. My Mother taught me to MEET A CHALLENGE. "What yuh think yuh thinking? Answer mi when mi talk to you!”. Then when you did answer, “Don't back 2. My Mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait till we get home". 3. My Mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You gwine get it when we get home".
4. My Mother taught me CONSEQUENCES. "If yu run cross de road an meck car lick yuh dung, trust mi, mi gwine kill yuh wid beaten".
5. My Mother taught me THE VALUE OF EDUCATION. "If yu no go a school, yu a go tun tief or walk an' pick up bockle".
6. My Mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If yu keep on a tun over yu eye lid an' flly pitch pan it, it a go stay so and can't tun back over".
7. My Mother taught me ESP. "Yuh tink a don't know what yu up to, nuh?"
8. My Mother taught me HUMOR. "If yuh don't eat food, breeze goin' blow yu weh".
9. My Mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT. "Come an' tek yu beatin' like a man".
10. My Mother taught me about SEX. "Yuh tink say yu drop from sky?"
11. My Mother taught me about GENETICS. "Yuh jus' like yu faada".
12. My Mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Yuh tink mi come from "Back A Bush?"
13. My Mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE. "Hog did aks him mumma meck her mout so long, an she say, yuh a grow come, yuh will know”.
14. My mother taught me about ... JUSTICE. "One day name day wen yuh have pickney, a hope dem treat yuh same way".
15. My mother taught me about COMMON SENSE. "Yuh think say mi did born when mi madda gone to market?
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