Tough love

Young woman: "If I fall down and I'm not bleeding all over my mother is like 'just get up, you're fine.' That's the way she is.

Woman to daughter in her 20's: "Maybe when he comes out of the army they'll have turned him into the kind of insensitive guy you like."

Mom to pre-teen girl: "Questions about breasts? Yup, it's in my job description."

Tough Choices

Dad to daughter: "Why don't you just flip a coin?"
Daughter: "No, that doesn't work because if I don't like the answer I just flip it again."

Gender differences?

Mother commenting on her two very different daughters: "I would attribute their differences to gender, if they were different genders."

Overheard not so clearly

Overheard at Frendlys in Ithaca
A daughter and her mother were eating lunch together and the daughter was eating fries. She looked up at the mom and said
Daughter: "You know what's really good?"
Mother: "What?"
Daughter: "Fries with a Jamocha Shake."
Mother: "Flying with mocha fish?"
Daughter: "No mom."
- Ashley