Help! I’m repeating all my mother’s stock phrases | Emma Brockes

What’s happening? I used to roll my eyes whenever wisdom was being imparted. Now I’m passing it on

One of my children hurt her finger and asked for a Band-Aid, and before I could stop myself, I’d said it: “You don’t need a Band-Aid. We heal very quickly.” This was one of my mother’s stock phrases (although she said “plaster” for Band-Aid), which she never failed to trot out when I fell. She didn’t believe in Band-Aids, or – with the exception of cough mixture – medication for minor ailments, and she didn’t believe in this with ideological fervour. If it weren’t for the God part, she’d have made an excellent Christian Scientist.

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