Things that parents say that make you roll your eyes.

[JemothSkarii]

Hmm, let's see...

"Oh come on, kids/people can't just make you tired"

Oh yes, yes they can. Kid's are so energetic I feel tired watching them.

If talking about a friend or even someone I met: "Oh? What kind of job do they have"

If I mention they're unemployed (as most of my friends are): "Well are they looking for work? Why don't they have a job?"

For starters, they're people I know so I'm not sure why you're so enthralled. Second of all, there's maybe 100 jobs in this town over a year and it's a pretty large town, and each year about 300 students graduate.

"Oh, I forgot you don't like talking to girls, you like to 'wrestle' them"

I don't like either Dad, I'd rather just deal with girls as little as possible, I have no desire in looking for any kind of relationship right now nor in the near future.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

A woman was letting her kid tear apart an aisle in walmart, and I was mostly ignoring it, until I almost ran the kid over with my cart. To which I said: "Calm down and watch where you're going, I almost ran you over. You should really pay attention." The mother stormed over to me and shouted: "How dare you try to cage my son's free spirit!?" I rolled my eyes and said: "Okay then you won't mind if I go find a manager and make sure you pay for everything he just broke." She shut her mouth grabbed her kid and stormed away, later I saw her scolding her son. Still turned her into the manager.

When I was 15 I was out shopping with my mom. At the time I was wearing a junior's tee, skirt, hose, high heels, and carrying a purse. I didn't really pass for a girl at the time. My mom had encouraged me to pick out some more feminine clothing. At check out a woman with her daughter said to my mother, after looking at me no less: "Don't buy him those things, they're for girls, boys can't wear that sort of thing!" I looked down at my outfit, and being a smart ass like I still am, I asked this totally perplexed: "Then how am I able to wear this outfit, if boys can't wear girl's clothing?" The woman was at a complete loss for words, my mom, her daughter, and the woman at the register all almost died laughing.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Anything that's hypocritical. And there's a lot of that.

"All you do all day is play video!" Uh, like watch videos on Youtube? Or are you referring to video games? Or do you mean that my computer is running therefore I must be "playing video"?

"I dont care about what other people think!" Well I do. Who doesn't? Teenagers aren't exactly the most confident people.

"I don't care about your grades, I care about the effort you put in!" BUUUUULLLLLLLLLLSSSSHHIIIIIITTTTTT! When I got home one day my mom was pissed because my average was 94. She seemed to think being in the fucking top 10 of my batch isn't good enough if I didnt qualify for top honors.

"What is that noise?" Mom, I've listened to your music. I wouldn't be so high and mighty if I were you.

 

[fenrizz]

"Keep your room clean. Make your bed. I want your room to look nice for when guests come over."

Huh-what? *I* didn't invite guests over, a room is personal space and I don't want everyone to see where I sleep and where my things go. It's always bugged me when parents tell their kids to keep their living environment clean when some people just AREN'T that way. I mean, food and trash is one thing but toys and clothes are different. I know where everything is just fine, I never scramble around looking for what I need and as I said, it's *my* room. you don't have to live or sleep in it and you ESPECIALLY don't need to showboat it to your gossipy friends who will make fun of my posters or all the video games on my shelf or my super hero shirts--

I expect my children to keep thir rooms presentable, not necessarily for guests, but becaue I like my house to look nice and clean.
It's not that much to ask of them really.

Different strokes then, I guess. Even now I don't revel in making everything look clean and no amount of my mother forcing me to clean changed that

I'm not some celaning nazi either though.
Hell, I can't even be bothered to vaccum the house twice a week.

But still, I don't want it looking too shabby either.

 

[BeerTent]

"I don't believe in discipline. I just let the children do what they want."

/win thread.
/mic drop.
/accepted in a courtroom.

(Note, these are not MY parents sayin' this.)

 

[Tiamattt]

"Keep your room clean. Make your bed. I want your room to look nice for when guests come over."

Huh-what? *I* didn't invite guests over, a room is personal space and I don't want everyone to see where I sleep and where my things go. It's always bugged me when parents tell their kids to keep their living environment clean when some people just AREN'T that way. I mean, food and trash is one thing but toys and clothes are different. I know where everything is just fine, I never scramble around looking for what I need and as I said, it's *my* room. you don't have to live or sleep in it and you ESPECIALLY don't need to showboat it to your gossipy friends who will make fun of my posters or all the video games on my shelf or my super hero shirts--

Yeah a common thing my mother used to say was that her friends would make fun of her over how messy my room is. But here's the thing, those friends never seen my room, I don't even remember them visiting. The only way they could've possibly known is if she was complaining to them how messy my room was. In other words if she never brought up my room and instead talked to them about say.......anything else in the universe they would never bug her about something they couldn't known anything about. So of course whenever she complained about being embarrassed by my room I can't help but roll my eyes.

 

[Twintix]

Wow. I guess I must be lucky, not having met the kind of people you guys have met. The families I know have well-behaved kids and great parents who don't spout a bunch of stupid shit.

That said, I once got told by my taekwondo teacher that the parents of 2 new kids in the kids' group had been told that they apparently were afraid of me for "being hard on them". I was like "What? I didn't treat them any differently then I do the other kids, and I've never been told off before." And even then, those 2 kids kept fighting with each other and didn't listen to me. They felt a bit lacking in discipline. These two factors did make me wonder how they behaved at home...Then again, I'm not a parent, so I don't feel like I have any right to judge.

But, well, I did apologize to the kids anyway. When you work with kids, you must not anger the parents when it's not neccessary, you know?