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My baby sister who is 17 is mad because today when my mom picked her up from summer school. After my sister got into the car and my mom stopped at a stop sign she waited for some other kids to walk across the street so she could go,well I guess some of the kids were walking too slow for my mother because she yelled at them to hurry their fat a**es up. My sister is now embarrassed and refuses to go back to school tommorrow. Any advice on what I can do to help and how I can convince my sister to go back to school tommorrow? I know my mom was out of line. Please I am serious
Tell your sister that avoiding seeing people after embarrassing situations will only make it more difficult to face those people in the future. The sooner she goes back, the easier it will be. Also, point out to her that those slow moving children have probably heard it before. Some teenagers like walking slowly on purpose to annoy people. I've regretted allowing people to walk across the street for that very reason. I do them a favor and then they just drag their feet and walk super slow. It's disrespectful. Maybe if you point out how the children were wrong too, not just your mother, it might help put things into perspective for your sister.
Sympathize with your sister, just to make her feel better. Truthfully, she's making a mountain out of a mole-hill in her mind. The kids may say something to her tomorrow about what a mean Mother she has... she will agree with them because it's the answer they expect... and everyone will move on to more interesting teenage conversation ideas. It's too bad that she has to stress on this, when the reality is... the other kids likely laughed it off and promptly forgot about it anyway.
Your mother is cracking me up here. She sounds like a real trip. Tell your sister that one day she'll look back on the incident and laugh, so she might as well go on to school and act like nothing happened. Lol.
Parents are always going to say things that embarass their kids.
Kids are always going to be embarassed by things their parents say.
Learning how to cope with/react to parents who have embarassed you is one of the life skills you need to learn to be a productive adult. I'm kind of surprised she made it to age 17 without being embarassed to death by Mom. Staying home from school doesn't teach any lesson here. Making her go to school and face her friends will help her later on in life when it's a boss/husband/whatever who has embarassed her.
(Pretty sure each of her friends has a parent who has horribly embarassed them. It's the parent-child dynamic at work. )
My mom went into the boys locker room and slapped the crap out of my then BF in front of the whole football team before practice. (I will not go into details why, but I got a smackdown too and it was most likely deserved )
I never heard the end of that one.
She should consider herself lucky that's all your mom did.
Maybe at 14 or 14 but I feel like 17 is a little old to say "my mom embarrassed me I'm staying home".
I agree with you. She needs to go in there and take her clowning like a big girl.
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