Today, I found out that my daughter has been watching Supernatural and The X-Files so she'll fit in better at school. I'm not even angry that she's suddenly a brain-dead conformist, it's just that she now has nightmares all the time and insists on sleeping in my bed. She's a kicker. FML
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Today, thanks to my wife, our 11 year-old daughter is completely obsessed with serial killers, cults, and true crime. My wife thinks it’s funny and harmless; meanwhile I’m legitimately worried about our child’s mental health. FML
Today, I had to pick my daughter up from pre-school because she repeatedly hit another kid with a stick. Apparently, my parents have been letting her watch violent action movies again. FML
Today, my daughter was acting strange. When she wasn’t muttering in some strange language, she was talking about invisible people coming to get me. Terrified, I called my boyfriend. Turns out he taught her that as a prank. He knows I’m afraid of anything supernatural. FML
Today, my daughter turned Emo. FML
Today, I discovered that for the last six months my mother has been leaving my TV on FOX while I sleep, in the hope that my subconscious will absorb it and turn me into "a morally-upright human being". FML
Today, my daughter hugged me around the neck and whispered, "I'm going to cut your head off." I'm afraid to go to sleep now. FML
Today, I walked in on my daughter hugging and sobbing into her Edward Cullen cut-out. She won't tell me what's wrong, yet she can confide in a creepy fictional stalker whose facial expression is locked to "chronically constipated". Where did I go wrong? FML
Today, I was doing my nightly check of my daughter's phone since a recent stint in the psych hospital, and saw that she had fallen into a peaceful sleep to watching videos on a website dedicated to watching people die. FML
Today, my parents watched a horror movie with some creepy child in it. Apparently, I sound just like that kid when I call for my mom, so now she doesn't want me to call her mom anymore. FML
Today, my daughter’s sleepwalking has been so bad that none of us has slept more than a few hours a night in weeks. We took her to a pediatrician, who referred her to a sleep clinic for children that has no openings for 6 months. My boyfriend is convinced my house is haunted, scaring the other kids. FML
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NiveaKK 9
I don't blame her for watching Supernatural. Jensen Ackles is HOT.
DrDilllonReese 12
At least you didn't catch her listening to One Direction and Justin Bieber, and reading Twilight.That's the ultimate level of brain-dead.
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SoultheWolf 19
You deserve this. Either tell your child she needs to grow up and sleep in her own bed or she has to stop watching Supernatural and X-Files. Seeing as those are for 13+ I'm guessing she's at least a teen. She shouldn't be getting nightmares at that age. If she is younger then you should be smart enough to NOT LET HER WATCH THEM. Especially Supernatural has A LOT of sexual reference, and even some sex scenes.
BlackIce911 17
OP - Time to be a parent and not a friend. It is your responsibility to be aware of what your children are doing and to moderate what they watch on TV. From the description of the child, she seems to be in the early part of grade school. That means you are responsible for what TV is watched. Done with my rant. Let the thumbs down begin.
missnuthin 10
tell her to read the episode summaries on wikipedia instead. then she can pretend to all her dumb friends she's watching it, and you get your bed back.
feranmi101 0
What school is op's kid in that watches the x files wtf
lobum 12
The fact that you just called your daughter a brain dead conformist tells me you are the coolest ******* mom ever.
MonkeySpeaks 4
Perhaps it's time to start "parenting" and teach your daughter about consequences. Why are you ALLOWING this behavior to continue? I don't mean allowing her to watch TV, but you're allowing her to sleep in bed with you... She can continue to watch these shows, but must get a handle on her fears and sleep in her own bed. If she can't sleep on her own after watching them, then she can't watch them. Enforce it. Even if it means getting up to remove her from your bedroom when she sneaks in. You reinforced the behavior by letting her start sleeping in there, now you have to remedy it. YDI.
yupitssoph 18
Well how old's your daughter OP? She sounds about 11 or 12. I speak from experience, the whole "conformist" thing is just a phase. And go easy on her. Kids that age can be brutal.
Ducky_N_Ozzies 6
Most kids are pretty brain dead. Im not but thats because I have always been a loner and a loser but hey I dont have nightmares
BrookeLynnLynn 0
Supernatural
january12 0
"insists"? Ahem. Let's see, who's the parent here? Oh, apparently it's your daughter since she seems to be the one making the rules.