Outsmarted

By Anonymous - 19/05/2022 06:00

Today, I'm an adjudicator for our school's debate team, collectively I have over 20 years experience both as a debater and as an adjudicator, and yet I have no idea how my daughter manages to convince me she deserves an extra dessert and to stay up an hour past bedtime every single day. FML
I agree, your life sucks 291
You deserved it 983

Same thing different taste

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because you let her...grow a pair and enforce the rules. You're the parent not the friend.

It’s easy to convince someone who has no intention of actually following through.

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because you let her...grow a pair and enforce the rules. You're the parent not the friend.

It’s easy to convince someone who has no intention of actually following through.

Because you realize your rules are stupid and arbitrary. If she took "con" against your rules, she'd shred you.

She gets it honestly. Since she’s smart, get inside her head and work from there. You can be firm without being a dictator.

She learned all those debate skills from you. She will become a great lawyer.

If it's not hurting her, maybe having a slightly bigger dessert and an hour later bedtime is a good thing. You don't need to enforce rules unless they're stopping something bad from happening.

Let me guess, it’s her big soulful eyes look that gets you every single time.