Funny Things Parents Do or Say

[LinaSing14]

<p>Hi everyone! What are some really funny things parents do or say? I saw this thread from YEARS ago on College Confidential and wanted to bring it back! It had to do with Asian parents, but I wanted to open it up to everybody! </p>

<p>I love my parents and sometimes they say the funniest things and it cracks me up. These are not stereotypes, merely commonalities. I bet everyone else has some stories or statements they’d like to share. This is solely for laughs for everyone and to hear some stories. I’m Asian myself =)</p>

<p>Just remember, it doesn’t HAVE to be about studying….it can be anything. Let’s share! These were from the thread from 2004 haha. </p>

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Today my mom called Tufts University “that dou fu university”. Yes…Tofu University. I wish I were kidding.

– Piguant77</p>

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– Chen</p>

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HYPSM: You have honored this family well </p>

<p>Penn: You have disgraced the family going to penn state </p>

<p>Brown: What is this brown, no school can be good if named after a color </p>

<p>Columbia: You are not going outside the country for you education </p>

<p>Georgetown: You got accepted to a city? </p>

<p>U of Chicago: I will not let my child attend a public university </p>

<p>Northwestern: What?, you got accepted to a direction, what a disgrace to the family honor </p>

<p>AW or S: who has ever heard of (Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore) back home, you better start learning to wash dishes </p>

<p>Carnegie-Mellon: What kind of fruit is that? </p>

<p>Vanderbilt: Who-built? I don’t know anything Vander did do be famous. </p>

<p>WUSTL: Where is St. Louis is it even part of the united states? Who is this “washington” </p>

<p>Rice: I will not let my child attend a cuilinary school, you will be a honorable scientist, not a chef </p>

<p>Wake Forest: What can you learn from a forest, I want my child to go to a university </p>

<p>Reed:They are sending us acceptance letters becasue you are such a disgrace that they think you need to learn how to READ </p>

<p>Colgate: Toothbrush making school is not a place I will send MY child </p>

<p>And I’m sure there’s plenty more

•      Gameguy56</p>
  

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Mom: A B+ in calc ap?!? aaaiiiyahh!!! penn state (she means upenn) wont even let you use bathroom!! </p>

<p>Dad: You are such a failure and disgrace to this family! Look at cousin Eugene, I bet he’s going to get into Harvard
Me: Dad, Eugene locks himself in his room and studies all day, he has no friends, hes a loser
Dad: YOU ARE A LOSER!!! YOU CAN’T EVEN SCORE A 1500 ON SAT!!

•      Fhmamii</p>
  

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" If don’t study now, you will end up at sleeping in the cardboard box in the future."

•      SammyWu</p>
  

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Behindthemyth: Omg, my dad said the same thing: “I will ‘break the iron pot and sell the iron’(translation–a old chinese phrase meaning that one will sell everything one owns), or even ‘sell my blood’ if you get into Hahvard—“Ha Fu” (in chinese)…” </p>

<p>so, I dont know, I’m not sure I want to go to Harvard if my parents have to sell their blood. But I think they are just talking —just another part of their College Talk…lol

•      Sharshar</p>
  

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yeah, my mom compares ‘math skills’ of students in America, to taiwan/china/japan…and to her own schooling </p>

<p>“I learned algebra in elementary school” </p>

<p>maybe i’m exaggerating. maybe not. i can’t remember what she said exactly, but it’s something ridiculous like that. </p>

<p>“in japan, kids learn calculus in middle school” lol

•      L0serchild99</p>
  

[LinaSing14]

<p>Nobody has anything? Hmmmm maybe I posted this in the wrong section? haha</p>

[halcyonheather]

<p>Me: Today there was this kid in my class who thought Canada was a state.
My mom: Canada isn’t a state. Canada’s a province.</p>

[paracarli]

<p>As I was leaving my mom’s car once, she told me to “have a sparkling day!”</p>