happi duck Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 If my mom had been a member of the Hive I can imagine this post: My youngest dd, I love her to pieces... She's not picky per se *but* her favorite meals change from loved to hated with no.warning.whatsoever! I can serve what I think is her favorite meal and she won't eat it because "I hate that". Ugh. (Sorry mom!) So has anyone else imagined what their mom or dad would've 'said' on a forum? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 "I don't know what to do! She just spaces out and day dreams endlessly! It'll take her an hour to get through a math lesson she understands perfectly well." Yep, that was me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My dd can't or won't make decisions. She's a follower. She'd rather have someone else make the decision and she just goes along with it most of the time. I think it's because she doesn't like making decisions that she procrastinates so much. It drives me nuts! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) She gets so interested in just one thing and wants to do it all the time! It's so annoying! She's been obsessing about Peru for weeks, and aside from practicing piano I can't get her to study anything else without a big argument. Math and grammar are the worst. OTOH, she IS reading Prescott's "Conquest of Peru" for fun (pretty dense for a 9 year old), but obviously she needs to be more well-rounded than this. Edited December 11, 2016 by Carol in Cal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Mousie Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She's so spacey! She says she didn't even know she was failing Biology until the last two weeks of the semester, then she whipped out so much extra credit she got an A. Why didn't she just do the work the first time?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyroo Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She doesn't have any friends!! I bend over backward trying to get her involved in sports, Brownies, play dates, etc., but she doesn't want anything to do with the other kids. She says they're boring and don't know anything and that she would rather do the math workbooks she is always asking for. Right now she is working on long division and negative numbers - she's only 6!! I just don't get her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She would have been banned by now. :lol: 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemongoose Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I just don't understand her. She never tells me anything and seems to always be moody and wants to be away from us. Homeschooling never would have worked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiana Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She won't do anything at all unless she can do it perfectly the first time. How can I get her to try new things? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My mom never would have spent time on a forum to be a better parent, lol. She was a 70's mom. She believed parenting was wasted time. She was into organic gardening and liberal politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethben Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My ds is so shy that I'm afraid she won't be able to manage social interactions. We've tried everything! Even putting her as the lead in a play to break her out of her shell. Her voice is so quiet, people are always asking her to speak up so that they can hear her. Will she ever be a successful adult? I am thank you very much! And I have a ds exactly like I was as a child. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) nm Edited December 11, 2016 by Scoutermom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She would have been banned by now. :lol: Mine too. All she ever wants to talk about is politics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She's so stubborn, it's infuriating. My eldest is so much easier to parent. She doesn't want to go to church; I don't know what to do. She's constantly getting into arguments with the pastor over the meaning of the original Greek in the Bible. Should I just let her stop going, or continue to force her? And... Need help! I just caught my dd reading a smutty book. I mean, of course I threw it immediately into the wood stove, but how can I keep her from reading this stuff in the future? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooksandBoys Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 She reads All. The. Time. She's always lost in her own head, pretending, telling herself stories. At least she cooperates with our homeschool or I don't know what I'd do. Later: She won't do her schoolwork. I've helped her make to-do lists, threatened, punished, and even told her I'll send her to school. Nothing is working. (She sent me to school) Even later: She keeps begging me to homeschool her again. It's so frustrating. And she still reads All. The. Time. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My mom would never have homeschooled, so no way would she be on this forum. But if she were, she'd be complaining that no matter how much she tried to change my personality, I was a quiet, reserved introvert instead of a loud, outgoing extrovert like her. She'd also complain that I didn't share her liberal mindset and the grudge she held against all males. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My mom would have asked advice about my piano obsession and early, early drive towards college scholarships and auditions. I began planning in 5th grade when I exited method books for the Anna Magdalena Bach book. I was very willing to skip meals when working through a difficult section or working on homework to make sure my grades were stellar. I lost weight - weight I didn't have to lose at the time - leading up to my audition for scholarships to Interlochen. I was generally a compliant child except that I was pretty stubborn about major interruptions to school or practice. In second grade I ran away from home - five blocks to grandma and grandpa's house hiding out in the barn - so I would not have to go on the three week family vacation. The whole thought of missing three piano lessons plus 21 days of practice sent me into a tailspin. I was of course found quickly and thankfully mom had the sense to make my dad promise that we would stop every day in a city or town big enough to have a piano store where I could beg to practice. She would have told stories. Lots of stories. And then there would have been the drama of me leaving for college pretty young, and then meeting dh whom ny father figure would later pitch a fit about "not being the right kind of christian" and..... Lots of stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 "This kid! She just jumped out to startle me for the twentieth time today! She's trying to be funny. *glares* I hope one day she has a kid just like her!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My mother is in her late 70s and still complaining about me so I am sure she would of had a grand time pointing out my perceived flaws to anyone that will listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My mom was a homeschooler (not me but some of my younger siblings), and she'd probably enjoy swapping ideas here like I do. Although about me, she'd probably not worry much about school, because I was pretty compliant, but she'd worry about me and the older boyfriend (although maybe not online). However, if she had had this forum, and if homeschooling had been more popular/accepted when I was in K, I could see her saying that I was bored in school and reading above grade level and all of that, and she may well have appreciated the support for keeping me home. She considered it back then but just didn't feel like it was right at that time. (The only homeschoolers she knew had severe learning disabilities and were socially strange, so it wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement, even though she understood why it made sense for their family.). And then when I hit fourth grade and was bullied by the mean girls for several years, she probably would have liked the support here, telling her to pull me out (which is why I tell moms here the same thing when they're concerned about bullying). The academics were okay by that point (bigger district with more opportunities), and it wasn't until I hit eleventh grade that the elementary schools were unsatisfying enough to pull my siblings out, so I think they just didn't know what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 My mom would say, "why can't my other 5 kids be just like her?" Or not .... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Grace Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 "How did I get so lucky to have such a perfect daughter?" I'm serious; that's what she thought. She didn't know me... she was just glad I was so responsible and good. I wish she had been curious about who I was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) She would have been banned by now. :lol: Mine, too. :lol: She suffered no fools, would put a whiner in their place so fast their head would spin, and could throw a "bless your heart" so hard and with such accuracy, it made rocket launchers blush with shame. Man, I loved that woman. Edited December 12, 2016 by Audrey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) I found out she skipped school AGAIN! I know she gets great grades, but if she doesn't go, there is going to be trouble... And later.... I suspect she isn't going to school anymore... She is in that I.B. program, and they said there would be a couple of hours of homework every night, but she always says it is all done... Do you think I should call the school? (And yes she did call, and the councillor went around to all my teachers, and yes, I was getting it all done.) Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk Edited December 12, 2016 by scoutingmom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 My mother would have sounded like Fern's mother in Charlotte's Web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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