Look out world. Something horrible has happened, and it’s not that I’ve turned into my Mother. It’s that I’ve turned into my Mother but with the addition of mad sleuthing computer skills, a too quick temper, and the knowledge of some very bad words!
Over heard in my house this weekend:
“You live in Canada. It is snowing, You will wear that coat. If you don’t wear that coat, trust me when I tell you, I will know about it!” (go ahead and submit that one for parent of the year)
“I’m sorry you no longer LIKE your coat. If you have $200 dollars you can buy yourself a new coat, a better coat. If not, just wear the coat.”
“If you whine about that coat one more time this morning you can call your friends and do some whining to them because you will not be going to the dance! Any girl who has a tantrum is clearly not old enough to go to a dance.” (I wish I could tell you this was delivered in a cool and relaxed fashion like my Mom would have done, it was not.)
“I don’t care if all the other girls dress like that for the Friday night dances! You are 13, you will respect yourself and therefore that belly will be covered. Period” (fab negotiating, skills on my part right? Don’t worry it gets better)
“I appreciate you telling me lots of girls change into their “slutty” girl clothes when they get to the dance and you and your little group of friends do not. Point to you, how about throwing a long tank under that shirt” (See? She wins for honesty)
I have just one more thing I need to say. Sorry Mom. Sorry for every time I pushed your buttons, slammed the door, cried for no reason what so ever and sulked my way through a meal. If it makes you feel any better, I have two amazing daughters, and yet I can still tell you, payback is a bitch.
“slutty” girl clothes.? no self respect? no you have it wrong. I let my daughter wear shirts that show stomach and I know she has self respect and I trust her a lot. So what I think is that you just told us that you don’t have any trust for your daughter..
Oh I think I have used those exact words. I keep telling myself, I turned out ok, so maybe my mom was right. Thanks MOM!It will only take 20 some years before our kids realize that. LOL!!
I see my mother in me every day…and it’s not pretty!
Haha! I feel that’s going to be in my near future as well! Funny how things change so quickly from being a kid to a mom…
Ah, the adolescent years, designed to bring out the worst in a parent.
Guilty! I say it’s hardly our fault. We only know what we learned and whether they like it or not, one day our kids will sound like us:)
I’m afraid to say and hate to admit that I often sound like my mom, too. Minus her precious patience, though!
This is my future…..lord help me! Great job tho….I bet patience is hard to come by during those years.
So happy to see a Mom out there still trying to get the girls to cover up. Its really not cool that boys are properly dressed (well except for the underwear showing ones in some parts of the world)for school and the girls are coming in half naked especially in the summer time. They need to be sent home when they show up in clothes that are better off being worn at home.
I am dreading the pre-teeen teen years. And yea, I don’t have the patience my mother had either.
It’s been happening to me as well 🙂
I actually told Cat the other day that she must remember this day well cause she is going to say the same thing to her daughter one day … funny she didn’t believe me.
I hear my mother’s words coming out of my mouth too.
hahaha…the worst part is when our parents laugh at us for it…because we told them long ago we never would….
Oh I had two daughters and yes My Mother’s wise words came out of my mouth too before I knew I had even listened to them at the time.Drat!!! B
Hahaha I love this! But only because when Payback was handing out girls, I hid behind another former bad girl and somehow made it out with two boys. Ah, success.
However, I can attribute every wrinkle, gray hair and peak in temper to raising to toddler boys 🙂