A Couple Good Comebacks...

I've seen commercials and such where a mother often manages to guilt her adult offspring to do stuff for her with this argument: "Do you know how long I was in labor with you?"

I know a couple of good comebacks:

"No, but I do know how you could've prevented that."

or:

"No, but I do know I was conceived after Roe v. Wade."

The latter will only work for those conceived during or after the very late 70's, but seriously, that question sounds like the mother is saying: "I never wanted a baby but somehow I was forced to have you. Now do my bidding because you owe me for my little mistake!"

I'm all for respecting parents, because they are often trying to help their children to grow up to be responsible adults, but seriously, moms, don't use your vaginas to blackmail your kids. That is quite low.

Also, don't use any of the pregnancy-related problems you went through to get them to do your bidding because well, you could have adopted and skipped all those problems. Your child does not owe you for morning sickness, sore backs, frequent trips to the toilet, labour, c-sections or the like. You chose to go through that to have a baby; don't make your child feel guilty for those things.