Wednesday, 24 June 2009
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You Can Not Reason with the Unreasonable
16: "Mom why do you let 13 hang out with her friends whenever she wants to, but you always have a problem with me getting together with mine."
ME: "Because her and her friends aren't up to anything."
16: "You don't like my friends."
ME: "No, I like them. I just feel like they're growing up too fast. They're trying to do the things twenty year olds do and their parents are condoning it."
16: "Mom, you have the wrong impression of them. They're really good girls. They are."
ME: "Well their parents give them too much free reign in my opinion. They parent very differently than me and daddy."
16: "You think ____'s parents are too easy but they're not. They make _____ tell them when she's going be out drinking and she better not come home puking or she's in trouble!"
PALM TO FOREHEAD!
Yeah, they're tough alright. Give me a break. Parents who choose easy parenting make the job of those that choose good parenting hard.
Have you been through this?
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Comments (7)
That is definitely an argument I've heard before! Return to the subject when she calms down. The most important thing is that she doesn't get defensive. Once that happens, all common sense flies out the window!
Even as a teenager myself, I think those parents are rediculous.
*snicker* No. But I see it coming with C's preferred crowd...
Personally, I think you are being nice for even letting her be friends with kids whose parents are like that. One of my sister's was that parent- way too lax. Her son has been paying for it with no future in sight and actually I've paid for it, too, putting up money for his legal fees before he was 18.
Whenever my kid tries that, I tell him that I don't let him do or have certain things because I love him and its my job to teach him to make healthy choices and how to have healthy habits. So, no, he can't stay up as long as he wants.
She might put up a fight now, but someday she'll thank you for it!
My daughter is only 3 but when we are out and she sees other kids doing something and wants to do the same I'm having to say "They maybe doing that but you aren't allowed too." I'm trying to get in from an early age that just because someone else can do it doesn't mean that you can too.
She'll thank you for it when she's not 19 pregnant with her 3rd child and living off of food stamps