“Life is full of choices.”
When my children lived at home, they heard that often from me.
I would use the phrase when they would complain about having to do something that was a result of a choice they had made.
They didn’t want to do homework after soccer practice because they were too tired? Well, “life is full of choices. You may not have a choice about the homework, but you had a choice about the soccer.”
Too tired on Saturday morning to help with the housework because they stayed up watching a late movie on TV? “Well, that was your choice, and you have to live with the consequences.”
They heard the phrase from their mean ol’ Mama so often, it became an acronym: L-I-F-O-C. Read more…
