Apparently I'm lacking parenting skills...

[reyd reid reed]

so sayeth the neighborhood...well...so sayeth one of my daughter's friend's older sister. Apparently, everything that has happened to my daughter (and my family) over the past year is a direct result of my lack of parenting skills.

I'm mildly annoyed that the girl (she's 18) had the nerve to make this comment in a rather public place, but I'm more amused (in a kind of sick way) than anything else.

:eyes:

[SPKrazy]

1. ahhh consider the source

an 18 year old kid with all the parenting experience and skills of a mother of baby dolls.

:hug:

reidie sweetie, there's nothing wrong with you hon!

[reyd reid reed]

2. That's what makes it so weirdly amusing...

...the source. My daughter is furious, though...and she can't understand why I just rolled my eyes, shrugged my shoulders and said, "Oh, well."

[RFKHumphreyObama]

3. Oh isn't it easy to be an armchair critic

:eyes:

Because obviously being 18 years old means of course that she has experienced raising a family and could do so much of a better job than you :sarcasm:

Don't let it get to you RRR:hug: It's easy to have the luxury to make judgments when you're not in the same position and don't have to make the hard decisions and this seems to be precisely what this girl is doing. It says much more about her than it does about you

[reyd reid reed]

5. To give the girl

her due...she does have a three-year-old. Lives with her mother...a paragon of parental perfection who happens to be a woman who is oblivious to all that goes on around her. Doesn't know where her children are or what they're doing -- even when they're in her house. Her kids have, I kid you not, held keg parties in the basement while mom was home and upstairs without a clue as to what was going on downstairs.

Half of what happened to my daughter over the past year, happened on her doorstep.

Tell you something? Tells me something.

:hug:

[REP]

7. Mother at 15 - Well, She Does Know Bad Parenting First-Hand....

I'd venture a guess that her mother is no prize. Just a guess.

[uppityperson]

9. sounds like an eye roller is due

an 18 yr old, with a 3 yr old, living with her mom, thinks you lack parenting skills. OK. Well, I hope that she has good ones, hope she learned them somewhere also and is able to be a good parent. Somewhere, somehow. Perhaps she learned by observation of her own family, what to not do? Eye roll.

[AllegroRondo]

55. Shes not oblivious, she's willfully blind.

a kegger in the basement while she 'knows nothing' upstairs? Impossible. She knows. She would just rather pretend she doesn't, as its easier than confronting the situation.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Gee, I wish I could have had a wise 18 year old tell me how to

be a good parent. :eyes:

Let's see how well Miss Thang does when SHE'S a momma!

[reyd reid reed]

6. Yup.

Oh, and apparently -- according to this paragon of virtue -- I'm a slut, too. I have an interracial household, hence I'm a slut.

:eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

8. Well, bust my buttons! I had no idea that being part of an

interracial household makes one a slut! :wow:

Tie me up and tie me down, I learn someting new every day! (Oops, does saying that make me a slut?) :rofl:

[Random_Australian]

10. Apparently, yes, along with other such offenses like: More than five buttons on a shirt,

liking camembert cheese, not having the correct accentuation when pronouncing the name "Aldrin", and, um, owning candles, uh, having a household without a year planner on the wall, and not believing in at least one God (or being agnostic toward a selection of at least seven, which is easy with the new Norse(tm) range of gods to be agnostic toward in order to not be a slut).

Also, wanton displays of ankle will no longer be tolerated.

:rofl:

Such a stupid insult.

[SeattleGirl]

12. OMG! That means I'm a slut too!

:rofl:

[Random_Australian]

14. *gasp* you mean you've engaged in wanton displays of ankle?

In public?

I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya!

:rofl:

Ankle-Jezebel! :P ;)

[SeattleGirl]

16. Yup! And I have the picture to prove it!

[reyd reid reed]

18. *gasp*

For shame, you wanton...wanton...anklette.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I say...

:wow:




BTW, I like the shoes...

:hi:

:hug:

[SeattleGirl]

25. Woohoo! I'm a wanton anklette!!!

Sorry to shock your delicate sensibilities, but woohoo!!!! :woohoo:

I like the shoes too!

[reyd reid reed]

32. I wanna join the anklette brigade...

can I, can I, huh? Purty please???

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

35. Absolutely!

Always room for another wanton anklette! :evilgrin:

[Random_Australian]

40. Oh no! What have I started!

:)

[reyd reid reed]

41. Muahahahahahaha....

:evilgrin:

[Random_Australian]

43. So I'll have to see many women who are wearing so few clothes that there ankles are visible?

Amongst other things. Oh no, oh dear. :) :evilgrin:

[SeattleGirl]

45. It is your punishment for being bad!!!!!

:spank: :evilgrin:

[Random_Australian]

49. What can I say? I'm just a glutton for punishment.

Especially in the form of having scantily clad women about the place. :)

heh heh heh :yoiks: ;)

[reyd reid reed]

47. A fate worse than death...

torturous, even. The perils of the ankle are so feared that they're passed down through the generations in a whisper...fear the ankletted jezebel, lest she lure thee with her wanton ways...

[Random_Australian]

50. Actually, I feel a little like bieng lured.

Know any ankle Jezebels in my area?

[Random_Australian]

19. Look at what liberal values are doing to America!

When a woman can walk down the street with exposed ankles and not get hit with a big stick by the Modesty Police, society crumbles!

I mean, they had uncovered ankles in the USSR, and look what happened to them!

[SeattleGirl]

28. Well, I've kept this a secret thus far, but I guess it's time to tell all.

I am Secret Agent Wanton Anklette, and I am here to overthrow the very pious country of America! And next, I will be heading to Australia! :evilgrin:

Beware!!!!!!

[Random_Australian]

39. No! Not that! Ankles were put there by satan, as well as fossils, and

cheese, (because the French like it and "France" is "Satan" spelt backwards), helicopters, people called Jim, and what's more the enlightenment was just a Jesuit conspiracy.

Cutting of your ankles for purity. Not a long way away from what some are doing already.... :scared:

[SeattleGirl]

44. Actually, ankles were a Jesuit conspiracy. I know this because I

went to a Jesuit university, and majored in Wanton Anklettery! :evilgrin:

[Random_Australian]

48. Hah! That's great. You know, there was a huge website about how Foucalt's Pendulum

(the thing that proves the earth is spinning) was a Jesuit conspiracy, and how it was all performed by a trick, and so on, until someone sent them instructions on how to make their own. :) It suddenly went vewy vewy quiet. :)

In the name of purity, I demand that you cover your ankles! Preferably using the top you are currently wearing... :yoiks: ;)

:P

[SeattleGirl]

51. You are sooooooo bad!!!

:spank: :spank: :spank: :rofl:

[Random_Australian]

52. I'm just a teeny tiny little itty bit naughty.

Your very-naughtiness and wanton displays of ankle just brings out the worst in me. :rofl:

(Though I did nearly expect you to post with "Ok, I will!" in the subject line and then post a pic of your ankles as before, but this time covered with a shirt)

:rofl: ;)

Me? Acuse you of bieng evil? Nevah!

[SeattleGirl]

53. No can do right now.

Said shoes are upstairs where MrSG is sleeping. The ankle covering just wouldn't work without the shoes, you know! :P

[reyd reid reed]

11. Apparently it does...

of course, she can't very well cite single-parenthood as the criteria because then she'd fall into it herself. She can't cite a large family because she's one of six and that wouldn't say nice things about her mother. Ms Thang's creative, isn't she?


It's good to know, innit? And here, I've wasted all this time being...well...respectable. Or so I thought. I guess being a slut ain't as much fun as it used to be.

[SeattleGirl]

33. Aw, don't be discouraged, darlin'

I'm sure you'll get your groove back real soon! :thumbsup:

[Random_Australian]

46. Well, I have to point out, would

you trust the opinion of someone who thinks that mixed races (*gasp*) makes people sluts?

I sure as heck wouldn't.

[Random_Australian]

15. Does this mean you're going to have to change your sigline to

"you miss 100% of the sluts you never... what?"

:)

;)

[Random_Australian]

13. Eh. As the guy once made up on the spot to Billy Connolly:

"Wherever you go, never take an eedjit. You can always pick one up when you get there"

:)

[reyd reid reed]

21. Heeee....

Too true.

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[Random_Australian]

38. Reminds me of this joke - a guy walks into a odds-n-things store,

a little back-alley shop run by a wizened old man, with all sorts of odd things on the shelves.

Intruiged, he looks around a while, until he sees this exquisite bronze rat.

He asks the storekeep: How much for the rat?

The storekeep replies: "Well, it's $10 for the rat, and $1000 for the story behind it"

So the guy decides, screw the story, and buys the rat.

As he walks out the store, he can hear a bit of squeeking, nothin much. A couple of rats follow him out the alley. Strangely, no matter what way he moves they seem to be following him. More rats run out to join them. By the time he's in the main street there are thousands of them. Then tens of thousands. He runs and runs but no matter what more rats are following him, until it seems like every rat in the entire city is after him.

He runs and far and as fast as he can, finally making it to the harbour, where he throws the bronze rat with his last strength into the sea.

Millions of rats surge forward like a tidal wave into the sea and drown, en masse.

But before any of the stunned onlookers can congratulate the man for freeing the city of its rat problem, the exhausted man looks up, remembers something, and runs back to the store.

As he runs up he can see in the distance the old man closing up the store, but nevertheless he runs straight up and starts banging on the door, yelling to be let in.

The old man seems to be expecting his arrival, and smiles as he unlocks the door.

As the man catches his breath, the old man looks at him knowingly and says "Well, I guess you'll be wanting the story behind it now, then, hmmmm?"

The man says, "No, I wanted to know if you had any bronzed idiots"

:)

***************

Really, that's the only way we'll ever be rid of idiots. :)

[some guy]

17. considering all the parenting you've done...

you can't be lacking very many parenting skills. :)

:hug:

wait - I know. I'll bet it's the having a grandbaby in the house skill you're lacking as a parent. Count yourself fortunate...

[reyd reid reed]

20. Awwwwww....

:hug::hug:

[reformedrepub]

23. So is putting your kids in the trunk

bad or good parenting??

[reyd reid reed]

24. Depends on your point of view, I'm guessing...

Personally, I tend to avoid it.

:hi:

How've you been?

:hug:

[reformedrepub]

27. Uhhh you dont wanna know....

Ill shoot ya an email....

[reyd reid reed]

30. Uh oh...

That doesn't sound good...

[some guy]

26. Awwwwwww....

:blush:

:D

:hug: :loveya: :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. I do not buy that for one little minute!

You have incredible and wonderful parenting skills...

Anyone with half a brain can see that...

I'd ignore her, myself...:hug:

[reyd reid reed]

29. Oh, I actually think it's weirdly funny...

I mean...of all people....

She'll figure it out. I think that my feelings are more hurt than anything else because when she was having problems around the holidays, we tried to help her. Offered suggestions and support and advice -- which she asked for and followed, by the way --

*sigh*

[rockymountaindem]

31. Well, we can't be friends anymore

:sarcasm:

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

34. ....

:hug:

:hi:

[wildhorses]

36. i think she is jealous---

that she doesn't have you for a mom :shrug:

:hug:


:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

37. Awwwwwww....

:hug::hug:

[reformedrepub]

42. Ill bet its because

you are the HOT mom in the neighborhood, and all the women are jealous.....

[Bassic]

54. Yes, and she knows this

because 18 year olds are typically vessels of wisdom. :sarcasm:

[reyd reid reed]

57. Their vast store of wisdom

knows no bounds. The only beings on the planet that surpass eighteen-year-olds when it comes to wisdom are pre-teens. They know everything, y'know...

:eyes:

[MissMillie]

56. Kids have a way of testing everything you've tried to teach them

I guarantee that this 18 year old will learn that... some day.

[reyd reid reed]

58. Yup...she will.

And she'll learn it at the knee of her own little know-it-all.

:P

[Haole Girl]

59. When you are 18, you think you have the world figured out...

When you're 45, you realize you never will.

You're a wonderful person RRR...

don't let the turkeys get you down. :hug:

[reyd reid reed]

60. Awwwww...

:hug: