A little bit of venting from a "Stupid Mom"

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Worknprogress

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I have a 15-year old daughter who asks me questions and when I answer she responds with eye rolls, huffing, etc. It's the same when I comment on something she's talking about because I can't possibly have any life experience, right?

For those of you with older daughters - when will my daughter no longer think I am stupid? When will my opinion actually carry some weight with her?

I love her lots, but, boy oh boy, some days ........ :confused:
 
I have a 15 year old daughter. When she does that, I imitate her.....with a smirk. I do a pretty good imitation and she realizes how bad she is behaving. I will also call her out on bad behaviour and let her know that I should be treated as well as she treats her friends, and she usually apologizes and then lets me know what is bugging her, because that is usually when I get it. When she is dealing with something.
 
Debbie, . . . you're scaring me. My little one is only 6 and yet she seems to already have a mind of her own. Hang in there you'll have one of those quiet "I told you so moments" eventually. Unfortunately I remember doing that when I was her age and I didn't really realize how cool my mom is until I got married and had kids of my own.
 
For the record . .

boys do it too. DS is 13 and just within the last year has started the roll of the eyes and the mumble under the breath . . .
 
DO NOT let her roll her eyes at you! I was such a brat when I was an early teen but my parents put the kibosh on my eye-rolling, mumbling under the breath, constant bratty attitude pretty quickly.

My parents now joke that they thought for a long time that my eyes were gonna get stuck in the back of my head...man, I had such an attitude. Poor Mom and Dad.....
 
Thankfully, as you can tell, you are not alone. My DD is 10 and has already started this. Each time she does, I call her on it. If it becomes too much at one time, she loses a priveledge (i.e. tv or internet time).

Carrie
 
Mumble under the breath thing always gets me to say

"Excuse me, what did ya say, can't hear ya, please repeat louder"
 
Yeah. I have a DD15 as well. I love her dearly but there are days... I swear, the perfect Presidential canidate would be a 15 year old girl because she knows absolutely EVERYTHING!!! :p (joking - by the way).
 
Worknprogress said:
I have a 15-year old daughter who asks me questions and when I answer she responds with eye rolls, huffing, etc. It's the same when I comment on something she's talking about because I can't possibly have any life experience, right?

For those of you with older daughters - when will my daughter no longer think I am stupid? When will my opinion actually carry some weight with her?

I love her lots, but, boy oh boy, some days ........ :confused:
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Hey Sis,

Sounds like mom's curse worked?? ROTFLMAO :D:D:D:D:D
 
Too funny Christine - I agree on the Presidential Candidate thing!!!

Allison - I met you on the July Road Trip - it's hard to imagine you acting that way toward your parents!! You are such a sweetheart!

When I was a teen I mumbled under my breath. Of course, sometimes I actually said what I was thinking loud and clear and got punished and I do punish her, usually by taking away something important like her cell phone or the computer and she straightens out. I just look forward to the day when it's just smoother waters.
 
My DD does this as well. We joke that she's going to roll her eyes right out of her head.

What really drives her crazy is when we turn to each other and talk about how this reminds us of when she was terrible two, which she went through early. then we muse aloud how we hope she'll get through this early too. It doesn't make her stop doing it, but it makes us feel better.

I'm sure this too shall pass. I think she does realize that we are a lot cooler than some parents.
 
My DD is 17 and I am truly amazed that I made it this far in life since "I don't know anything";)

I honestly don't think I truly appreciated my mother until I became a mother myself and realized how much she did for me.

^^^^^5's to us moms:D

JJ
 
I wondered the same thing. In fact sometimes I am still wondering. I have an 18 year old and it is starting to subside. I think it it the struggle of independance/dependance - I guess that just makes us stupid :p:p.
 
Worknprogress said:
I have a 15-year old daughter who asks me questions and when I answer she responds with eye rolls, huffing, etc. It's the same when I comment on something she's talking about because I can't possibly have any life experience, right?
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Worknprogress said:
For those of you with older daughters - when will my daughter no longer think I am stupid? When will my opinion actually carry some weight with her?

... probably when she makes a few mistakes and feels "stupid" herself ;)
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I have no daughters, but have 3 sisters. We found how much we appreciated our mom when we all went off to college. At college, I quickly found out how horrible doing all of my own laundry could be and I had to wait in line for not-so-good tasting food. That's when I really began to appreciate my mom.

For any country music fans, check out the Montgomery Gentry song "Back when I knew it all". I had my husband put this on his i-pod so we can play it to our son (9 now) when he is a teenager.

Sherry
 
crazystepr said:
DO NOT let her roll her eyes at you! I was such a brat when I was an early teen but my parents put the kibosh on my eye-rolling, mumbling under the breath, constant bratty attitude pretty quickly.

My parents now joke that they thought for a long time that my eyes were gonna get stuck in the back of my head...man, I had such an attitude. Poor Mom and Dad.....
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Amen to that! I pulled that same trick on my parents...once!
It is one thing to do that to your friends, but not the folks!!!
 
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