Today, my nineteen year-old daughter handed me a book on raising children and said, "Maybe you'll do better next time." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mother looked me dead in the face and said, "I have failed as a parent." FML
Today, my 5-year-old daughter was asked by her teacher to write a letter to each member of her family to read during the holidays. Her letter to me said, "Dear mommy, come on. You could have done better than dad." FML
Today, I took a look at my 9-year-old daughter's diary, thinking it would be full of cute stuff. Instead, it was full of hateful rants against me and my husband, as well the boys at her school, who she called gay because none of them ever hit on her. It seems I've failed as a parent. FML
Today, my 17-year-old daughter didn't do the laundry. Her excuse? "If it was meant to be done, it would have done itself." This is the same daughter who yesterday tried convincing me she was responsible enough to get a dog. FML
Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to read and write. She came bounding up to me with a piece of paper and said, "look what I did". It was a letter that said "My dad misses my real mommy, not you". FML
Today, I had to give my four year-old daughter some tough love, which I hate doing. When she ran away crying, my son, her twin brother, looked at me and said, "You should be ashamed of yourself." FML
Today, my daughter ran up to a librarian working in the kids section and screamed "MOMMY!" and hugged her. She looked at her and said "I'm not your mommy." My daughters reply: "I know. But you're better than mommy" FML
Today, in front of the entire family, I yelled at my mom and told her she wasn't a good parent. She responded with, "Well, at least I had friends when I was your age." FML
Today, I went to my 19 year-old daughter’s apartment when I heard her baby crying. I have a spare key so I opened the door to find her crying in her rocker. I called my daughter and it turns out she went on a weekend to Malibu with her friends and she “left her some milk and a bowl of Cheerios. She’ll be alright.” FML
Today, I noticed my daughter’s sullen mood and asked if there was anything I could do to help. With tears in her eyes, she snapped, “Yeah, you can go back in time and keep that appointment you’d made at planned parenthood!” I never had such an appointment and her older brother is a mean asshole. FML
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Demig0d6 14
Maybe you shouldn't have done it
flashback.miss 28
"Well, I couldn't do worse."
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sexyboi1985 27
Read the book and flashback !
savannabrooks17 12
teens these days...
uoeno_fml 20
Hahahah omg girl you're so right!
MzZombicidal 36
I can't believe people still assume it's only children or teens /these/ days that have ever been disrespectful. Lol.
Laurenlou 24
I can't believe people still think it's JUST kids or teens who are disrespectful. I've seen people get away with saying horrible things to younger people just because they are "adults." Yet those "adults" demand respect from the younger generations whom they have disrespected and mistreated. Who do you think these younger generations learn it from?
sweetbliss3 37
dont think too much into it. every parent messes up and every child has different experiences. just do what you can and thats all you can do.
buckdharma 38
I wonder what she'll get you for Father's Day?
yeahthatsmeee 10
Probably one of the those "world's okayest dad" mugs
Saikon1357 25
"Of all the daddies I've ever had, you're the one I didn't ****." On a hallmark card.
MzZombicidal 36
That's just downright wrong, #59...
chuksnwali 34
What the hell #59?
marieeecc 9
burn!
sadie_delprado 6
Wow that sucks!!!!!
Alchemist_21 26
I'd really like to get the daughter's side of the story on this.
martin8337 36
Too little too late.
91hayek 31
Is she dead? Beaten? Hungry? Unclothed? Does she not have a roof over her head? If not you pretty much did what you had to do. Now if there was some horrific abuse or incidents of abuse, I retract my support of you.
ElmoSaysSquishy 28
My parents fed, clothed and put a roof over my head. However, they also subjected me to homophobic abuse on a regular basis.
ratherblunt 6
Sorry to hear that, although the old addage, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" is true. Lift that chin, be proud if who you are.
askullnamedbilly 33
My parents provided me with all the things you listed. However, they also hit me, killed my pets as punishment for misplacing a key, tried to convince me to acquire an eating disorder to be more appealing to boys, limited the time I was allowed to talk to my friends and on one memorable occasion threw a knife at me that almost took out my eye. According to you, they are fine parents because they allowed me to live in their house and eat the food in their fridge. I think your standards are a little too low.
Godsofdracos 15
You entirely missed his last sentence. Read it again.
Kstruggles 15
wish I had the balls to do this to my mother. And for those who say it's disrespectful, parents are not owed your respect, especially if they do something to loose it. And I must assume that this is the case, if the child is giving their parent a parenting book.
RedPillSucks 33
The problem is we don't know if OP is a bad parent or the daughter is just a jerk. Parents should be afforded some level of respect, until they prove they don't deserve it. Being a parent is hard enough with good kids.
ItsATwinThing 9
To be honest, I disagree with how my mum goes about 'discipline' (If I could even call it that.) My brothers (both teens) could probably get away with murder. My mum is far too soft on them. She makes a threat like she'll ban them from the TV, ground them etc, but then let's them off the hook, and they know it. It's so irritating!
lurch87 18
26 - lose*
dragonkisses28 25
Thank you. I was waiting for the official correction.