Are you out to ruin your tween's life?

[2Kds2K9]

I have a DD13, and I can go from the rolling eye look to being the "Bestest Mom in the World" in 60 seconds flat! (as long as I have a full wallet and the car keys in hand!)

Ah, teens, gotta love 'em!

 

[teskak]

A friend's threat to his tween daughters is to pick them up from the school social in his pjs

 

[luvsJack]

I must be a fantastic ventriloquist. My DS15 swears I've said things that have never come out of my mouth!

That is exactly what dd11 does!! She is in the midst of planning for her and two friends to go to the fair this weekend and keeps telling me "but you said. . . " And I haven't actually said anything!

DD's hang up is me singing with the radio! Even if its only me and her in the car! When I am dropping her off at school, I cannot have my mouth moving in the car so that no one will think I am singing to the radio. I can't imagine that 500 other parents trying to get their kids out of the car and on their way to work care whether or not my mouth is moving or even have the time to see!!

Every time she says something though, I just start dancing to the music.

 

[barkley]

A friend's threat to his tween daughters is to pick them up from the school social in his pjs

i have to remind teen dd how freaking lucky she is in this regard. we live very ruraly and it's the very rare exception that kids don't get driven to the bus stops. the only way to get to the highschool is by car or bus (closest homes are a few miles away-noone walks or bikes). it's the norm that bleary eyed moms are sitting in their p.j.'s with no makeup and undone hair with their kids in the cars waiting for the bus. the look of horror in those tween/teen eyes when mom actualy dares to get out of the car (to close the doors because the kids are loaded down with backpacks and such)

dd has the unique benefit of being one of only two highschoolers at our stop-which is both the first in the morning and the last in the afternoon. she can purpetuate the dreamed of teen myth-that she somehow appeared on this earth and continues to exist without the unneccesary embarrasing baggage known as 'parents'


btw-we tell our kids that we did special advance coursework in subjects like 'embarrassing your teen', 'finding and channeling your inner meanness', and 'erasing any memory of ever having been a teen' at mom and dad's school.

 

[RitaZ.]

I think we all are - until they want something or need a ride somewhere

So right!

When I dropped off my 14 and 11 yr. old this morning, I had my window slightly open, which would have been fine, except I had music playing! All was well until I pulled up to the front of the school. They didn't want anyone to hear my music. We had the same problem when our 17 yr. old was that age. I would threaten him with pulling up to the front of his school with all the car windows and sunroof open and music blasting. The final touch would be me sticking my head out of the sunroof with a megaphone announcing to everyone that I was A's mom. Good times!

 

[jen0610]

DD's hang up is me singing with the radio! Even if its only me and her in the car! When I am dropping her off at school, I cannot have my mouth moving in the car so that no one will think I am singing to the radio. I can't imagine that 500 other parents trying to get their kids out of the car and on their way to work care whether or not my mouth is moving or even have the time to see!!

Every time she says something though, I just start dancing to the music.

DD12 doesn't mind the singing....she likes to rock out to Nickelback, Led Zepplin, and Rob Zombie with mom and dad.

But lord help us if some Rob Bass and DJ Easy Rock or some other old school dance music comes on the radio and mom and dad start moving to the beat. The sounds of disgust and eye rolls and comments of please stop, you can't dance are plenty full. It just makes mom break out even more. She needs to remember, mom danced for years at the exact same dance studio DD goes to now. Doesn't faze mom a bit to be watched while she's shaking her groove thang!!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

I couldn't read any more due to my eyes all filled up with tears from laughing so hard.

I guess I must be failing as a mother, cause I have never been sent to bed by either DD.

Once I got over the insult, I was kind of happy.

I haven't been sent to bed, but I have been told to leave the room!

I wasn't even in the room.

Well out of all honesty, the more I think about it, being sent to bed actually would be a treat. Extra sleep. no one bothering me. just slumber away.

Once I got under the blankets I realized that it wasn't that bad after all. Until I was ordered back downstairs.

And believe it or not I was scarred by my father when I was 14. It's 30 years later and I can still picture the scene vividly in my head. And I will share in case anyone wants to torment their child.

Dad had to pick me up at high school after something (can't remember). It must have been a Saturday. DF was on the fire company so he had put a great big blue bubble light on the top of his car. His car was a pea green Chevy Malibu. The light sat on a wooden bar across the top of the car. Nice, huh? Not even the half of it. He steps out of the car wearing work boots, grey socks with a red stripe on top, cut off denimin shorts, a white fire company t-shirt with red striping around the neck and sleeves and to top it off, baby blue suspenders with little racoons performing winter sports (bobsledding, luge, ski jumping). Suspenders were from Lake Placid after the winter olympics. Okay, so now he's out of the car but to make it worse - Sticks his arm straight up in the air and flaps his hand (I call it his giraffe wave) and screams "Allison, over here!" And did I mention this was in front of the "team room" where the football team was just getting done with practice. Okay, 30 years later and I can still picture this clearly in my mind. I told my DNiece who is 14 and she just cringed and gave me a hug.

It was like a car crash where you can't remember anything else that happened but the one defining moment right before impact. It's a good thing I really love that man.

Now go back to embarassing your children.

 

[kellyg403]

Of course I am...I was born for it evidently or rather according to my teens made for the job.

I can only take so much of the eye rolling, head bobbing, drama filled teens here..boys and girls. Just yesterday I was informed that no other mother was late picking up their teen after powder puff practice. I mentioned there were many times that I have SAT for hours in the parking lot waiting for them when they are the LAST ones out of the building. Give me a break. This was accompanied by tears and the woe is me for getting these parents.

I have accidently on purpose embarrassed them on a few occasions...slip in the Bon Jovi CD, roll down the windows and approach the school. Yep..the first thing they do is look around and make sure noone sees who exactly is getting in the car. The looks on their face is enough to keep me going through many more days of teenagerdom!

Kelly

 

[kellyg403]

Dad had to pick me up at high school after something (can't remember). It must have been a Saturday. DF was on the fire company so he had put a great big blue bubble light on the top of his car. His car was a pea green Chevy Malibu. The light sat on a wooden bar across the top of the car. Nice, huh? Not even the half of it. He steps out of the car wearing work boots, grey socks with a red stripe on top, cut off denimin shorts, a white fire company t-shirt with red striping around the neck and sleeves and to top it off, baby blue suspenders with little racoons performing winter sports (bobsledding, luge, ski jumping). Suspenders were from Lake Placid after the winter olympics. Okay, so now he's out of the car but to make it worse - Sticks his arm straight up in the air and flaps his hand (I call it his giraffe wave) and screams "Allison, over here!" And did I mention this was in front of the "team room" where the football team was just getting done with practice. Okay, 30 years later and I can still picture this clearly in my mind. I told my DNiece who is 14 and she just cringed and gave me a hug.

It was like a car crash where you can't remember anything else that happened but the one defining moment right before impact. It's a good thing I really love that man.

Now go back to embarassing your children.

Uh yeah..I understand completely. My dad went into the Army back in the 50's...Back when you were 16 and could join without going to high school. Well in my tenth grade year of high school some moron in the Army decided that all these guys needed a high school education and sent them to the high school with the rest of us. One day, I come around the corner and I hear "kelly..over here...Kelly..." I turn and see my FATHER..dressed in cutoff baby poop yellow sweatpants, army boots and a t shirt with no freaking sleeves. Who dressed this guy I don't know but I know one thing I ran as fast as I could in the other direction. For 6 months of my sophomore year I pretended to be someone else. Talk about scarred for life.

So, what I do in comparison to my kids PALES in the grand scheme of things. I could never be as good as my dad.

Kelly

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Uh yeah..I understand completely. My dad went into the Army back in the 50's...Back when you were 16 and could join without going to high school. Well in my tenth grade year of high school some moron in the Army decided that all these guys needed a high school education and sent them to the high school with the rest of us. One day, I come around the corner and I hear "kelly..over here...Kelly..." I turn and see my FATHER..dressed in cutoff baby poop yellow sweatpants, army boots and a t shirt with no freaking sleeves. Who dressed this guy I don't know but I know one thing I ran as fast as I could in the other direction. For 6 months of my sophomore year I pretended to be someone else. Talk about scarred for life.

So, what I do in comparison to my kids PALES in the grand scheme of things. I could never be as good as my dad.

Kelly

OMG! Thanks for the laugh. And OMG, 6 months of it??? That's just cruel and unusual punishment for any teenager.

 

[SC Minnie]

DD's hang up is me singing with the radio! Even if its only me and her in the car! Every time she says something though, I just start dancing to the music.

Me too!

DD says I completely embarrass her!!! So everytime 'Single Ladies' comes on the radio I have to 'car dance' and do the hand motions. DD gets so embarrassed even though there is no one around. But I love to do it even more when her friends are in the car with us. They end up dancing too! They think I'm cool and hip!

 

[Stitchfans]

Once I got over the insult, I was kind of happy.

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not sure how I insulted you.Thought it was cute and funny that an adult was sent to bed by their child.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Once I got over the insult, I was kind of happy.

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not sure how I insulted you.Thought it was cute and funny that an adult was sent to bed by their child.

Oh, I never thought you insulted me. Sorry if you thought that.

The insult was from my DD that was sending me away, for the very first time. She's only 9 and I thought I had a couple of years before this kicked in.