I'm obviously a horrible mother!

[DebD4T]

Not only am I mean, but I am a complete idiot also.

DS is 10 and he thinks he is the smartest person in the universe!!! I think he thinks I just crawled out from under a rock.

For me, it will probably get worse before it gets better...I have 2 DD's also (7 and 4 years old.). They think they are Einstien too!!

 

[cotye]

FOr me, it was in my last teens and early 20s when I realized my mom wouldn't always be here for me.... after hearing my own friends losing their mothers.

 

[captin fink]

Why do all you moms get to have all the fun? If I im not told that I'm hated at least onc a day by DS (12) I figure I'm am slipping. It seems that I am living with the smartest 12 year old ever to walk the face of the earth. It's just amazing that he knows evrthing about everthing

I was the same way. I think it lasted until I went away to collage and found out my Mom and Dad were still my meal ticket.

Good luck and remember it a game we adult can win

 

[jsmith]

count me in the "mean mom club" sometimes I think the 17 year old has come around, then he talks to me in the "Oh my god you are the stupidest person on the face of the earth" voice and I know I was mistaken. We refer to our 13 year old as the worlds leading authority-on everything!

 

[WebmasterAlex]

Just tell him that the next time he gives you grief over sunscreen, you will announce in front of the whole group that he had forgotten his teddy bear but you remembered and would bring it when you came to tuck him in....

 

[missymouse3367]

I taught my DD earlythat I could embarass her more than she could me. If I didn't do something for her and she started to throw a fit I threw one right back!! Now all I have to say is I'm much better @ this than you are. She gets pretty quiet. I'm sure I've got more to come

 

[Sunny]

Not to get off subject --- but did you hear the latest about sunscreen? I heard that "they" (those elusive people that are perfect and run our lives) now say it is not good for you because you need so many hours of sunlight a day and this blocks it all. Medical crap - it's like the weather - just wait a minute and it will change......

 

[Blondie]

Hold-up, before you close the membership on the Mean Mom Club, I need to sign up!!!

I have two boys, ages 11 and 12 and are eleven months apart in age.

Just the other day I was told that my 12 year old hid behind a car when he saw me getting read to pass the area where he was standing on the street. Just about broke my heart.

I guess he was afraid I'd say something or wave as I drove by....his little girlfriend was there!

 

[jan/cape]

You should have told him you could have put the sunscreen on him instead of telling him to do it.

 

[Kteacher]

Another Mean Mom here. Today it was because I wouldn't let DS12 sleep over a friend's house the night before school starts If there's so many of us Mean Moms who are the moms that are not doing all these "mean " things ?

 

[Liz]

Jan/cape, I was putting it on him instead of just letting him do it himself! That's part of the problem that made him so mad! But how else was he going to get it on his back?!

A couple of days ago I heard something about one of the girls on this trip to the lake, and DS now says he will wear sunscreen without putting up a fight now! The leaders kept telling this one girl to put on more sunscreen. She had applied SPF15 once early in the day but she's very fair skinned and started looking really red. She would say "I like to get sunburned, its fun!" Well now she's being treated at the Univ. of Utah Burn Clinic 2 or 3 times a week, having physical therapy 3 times a day and is in awful pain. She's missing the first 2 weeks of school and is wrapped in gauze from her shoulders to her waist. I'm sorry for what she's going through but it sure opened my son's eyes to what can happen. And this happened to her with just one day in the sun.

For something totally unrelated, but was a fun way to drive DS crazy, he was mad about something else (can't remember what now) and went in his room. He turned up his stereo pretty loud with the intent of bugging me. I went in his room and turned it even louder and started dancing! That made him even madder so he turned it off which of course isn't what I wanted all along!!!

 

[Lady M]

I hear the "magic" age is about 30. Then I've heard parents are supposed to look smart again to their children. We'll see........

I've also "heard" it can happen earlier if they get married and have children of their own. Then a light bulb goes on in their heads and they begin to "see" what challenges lie before them as parents.

 

[browneyes]

I think they beome normal again when they hit 60 or so.

 

[antkim]

My 3 yr old DS informed me yesterday that he didn't like me anymore!I replied "good!"-a little imature myself haha!!!2 seconds later he was hugging and kissing me because he thought he hurt my feelings!Boy are we in for a battle!2 capricorns!Yikes!!!!
Kim

 

[RosieRosie]

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[RosieRosie]

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[Nancy]

This post is great..there are a lot of us mean Mom's out there. Do you know I'm mean because I don't hand my 14 year old DD 40.00 or 50.00 bucks everytime she goes to the mall with her friends. (I don't even want her going to the mall by herself, but DH over ruled me)
I'm also "stupid"...you all know the "LOOK!!"
They must all think that we were born adults and have never "been there, done that"

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

My DD is 32 and I am still waiting. I figure she must be a worst mother than me though cause she lets me take care of her kids. LOL Don't get me wrong though, I love my grandkids to death and enjoy each and every moment I share with them.

I am there whenever needed and disappear when not so I guess I am like the floor, important but not noticed a whole lot until it is gone.

Your whinning friend, SG/Linda