Comments on: She’ll see

By: pixielation

pixielation — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:33:06 +0000

My mother is waiting with baited breath to find out if my daughter is as bad as I was. She says (bitterly) every now and then “you children made my life hell”. And there is so much serious resentment in it that I fear for what I might be dealt!

By: AmyLk

AmyLk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:21:56 +0000

That totally sounds like my house! Son is ALWAYS grounded (except at his Dads) and throws those same phrases at me along with “I’ll just go to my dad’s then!” Good luck walking over the bridge to get there!

By: Sonja

Sonja — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:26:56 +0000

Beautiful!!! You are my hero! (I am totally stealing this idea when my 2 year old is your daughters age)

By: Catherine @ Evolving Mommy

Catherine @ Evolving Mommy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:20:21 +0000

Oh Tena, you are a tricky, tricky woman and I like it.

By: halfdome621

halfdome621 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:56:14 +0000

Then she screams,” you are the worst mother in the world!” And “this is all I want and then you can ground me for a year.” Followed by, “I hate you and you’re always on the computer.” And the ever popular standby, ”you don’t love me.”

I’m am so not looking forward to this stage of parenthood. I feel for you, but hang tough!

When I got grounded my mom took it all – TV, radio, phone, going out – I had no options except reading. It sucked.

By: paige

paige — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:37:59 +0000

I was grounded by entire childhood too. I was bad. But I was not allowed to use the phone, or watch TV or do anything except school. When they were really serious, they took away my books. I guess they figured out that as long as I had those, the other stuff was not too bad.

I HATED losing my books.

Does she have something like that you can do to her?

By: MBonn

MBonn — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:53:00 +0000

Oh man this was my childhood too! I’m already trying to figure out how to deal with it and I’m not even close to having kids yet. Why couldn’t we just keep our mouths shut? Even if you didn’t say anything bad per say it ended up being your tone or facial expression and you didn’t even mean to! I was grounded through a birthday and it wasn’t fun. Thankfully my mom too took pity on me and let me have the present of seeing my boyfriend the next day:P
Maybe you should sit your daughter down and talk to her about how you remember it being like that? I’m wondering if when you notice her being like this if you could take a timeout for both of you then come back and talk about it? Then the whole too proud to admit anything comes in though. *sigh* I’m just trying to figure out if anything works so I know whether I’m pre-destined to be screwed or not
Anyway, Good luck with that and I hope your daughter appreciates what you’re doing for her birthday!