Mother/Daughter Relationships
What is it with teenagers?
When I was a teenager I used to go days without talking to my mother. I would just blow all day long. What, you may ask, did she do to deserve the 'silent treatment'? Actually, nothing! Just for being my mother. I always found something wrong with anything she said .
I am married now for a couple of years. I have a wonderful relationship with my mother. We go strolling the Avenue (Which one?) on Sunday. And I don't give a crap if she says something not to my liking. I simply brush it off. But looking back, I can't help but feel guily for the torture I put her through. I still don't agree with everything she says or does but she's my mother and however weird she is I love her. What I don't understand is why I acted like that. Why do teens think their parents are their worst enemies?
When I was a teenager I used to go days without talking to my mother. I would just blow all day long. What, you may ask, did she do to deserve the 'silent treatment'? Actually, nothing! Just for being my mother. I always found something wrong with anything she said .
I am married now for a couple of years. I have a wonderful relationship with my mother. We go strolling the Avenue (Which one?) on Sunday. And I don't give a crap if she says something not to my liking. I simply brush it off. But looking back, I can't help but feel guily for the torture I put her through. I still don't agree with everything she says or does but she's my mother and however weird she is I love her. What I don't understand is why I acted like that. Why do teens think their parents are their worst enemies?
posted by heimishinbrooklyn @ 2:46 PM
12 Comments:
At 3:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
They don't!! Teens instinctively know that their mother's love will endure anything they can dish out, and so dish they do!! I think that families serve as a laboratory for all other relationships in our lives. A testing ground, if you will. The permanence of families, the inability to divorce or parents and siblings no matter what, that fact allows us to test all types of behaviors without the fear of enduring the same repercussions as we would in the outside world. Blood truly is thicker than water, and the blood of mothers is thicker than all.
At 3:25 PM,
heimishinbrooklyn said…
Wow! Powerful! But makes a lot of sense.
At 6:08 PM,
Y.Y. said…
yes silent rtreatment is da worst
At 6:09 PM,
Y.Y. said…
btw
SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At 2:26 AM,
Anonymous said…
Seichel Kimt mit de yoren, huh??
You the vort Ure'ah Bonim L'boneicho, when u have your own kids, Shlom al yisroel, then you make peace, with your partents, becasue it is then that u start to understand them
please check out my new post too.
At 6:57 AM,
Anonymous said…
Heimish:
See, people like issues, topics, not your breathing probblems; lol.
All good , great point.
BTW part of the reason I stopped bloggoing was in your previous post.
ps: My daughter is not even a teenager and "zi buluzt vi ah groiseh".
At 8:04 AM,
socialworker/frustrated mom said…
I can relate it was the same with me. I have a wonderful relationship with my mom now.
At 9:27 AM,
Y.Y. said…
i already posted your comment and responded to it on my blog see how fast it is?
At 10:34 AM,
heimishinbrooklyn said…
wow, you're good. Really impressed
;)
At 12:15 PM,
ggggg said…
This is a fact of life. Don't beat yourself up over it now!
At 8:11 AM,
Sara with NO H said…
Every teen does it. Even she did... You know that your mother would never hold anything against you, and proof is in the fact that you're close now. I think it's nice that you can stroll with your mother and discuss things. I'm not too comfortable talking to my mother about lots of stuff, but I don't give her the rolling eyes silent treatment anymore either.
At 7:03 PM,
Shpitzle Shtrimpkind said…
Teenagers have a problem with authority, not necessarily the mother. Unfortunately they view the mother as authority, even if she tries to be a friend. Still, I'll start by trying to have a friendship - although this might be impossible.
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