do all kids embarass their parents?

May 2021 5 40 Report

do all kids embarass their parents?

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just worried my kids will embarass me but i still embarass my mum and stepdad and im 21 and my husband even embarasses me sometimes

Pregnancy & Parenting / Parenting

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They all do, but it's part of their innoncence and learning experience. We should react the positive way instead of feeling shame and encourage good ways

Sounds like your parents taught you to be easily embarrassed.

Kids are kids. They don't have adult social filters, true, but that's because they are KIDS. My son may do things that would embarrass me to do MYSELF, but kids will be kids, and adults have the maturity to deal with that fact. (Or should have.)

Right now the only example I can think of is my son touching a relative's girlfriend's breasts and trying to pull down her shirt, something my social filter would certainly not allow ME to do. But I expect people to understand that he is only 17 months old and - even if he were able to understand the inappropriateness of the action - lacks the impulse control to stop himself from doing that.

Of course I tell him to stop doing that, and redirect him to an acceptable activity, that's all part of raising a child. He has to learn some time, might as well start now. But I'm not embarrassed about it happening in the first place. Why should I? That would mean assuming he can be expected to know it's wrong in the first place, and that is not realistic.

(In case you're wondering about the girl's reaction: she actually works with kids his age and knows to expect things like that, so she wasn't phased at all.)

Tri-Harder

No. My kids have never embarrassed me. They're kids. If people don't understand that, it doesn't embarrass me. There are certainly times I've apologized for something they've said, but it's nothing that I walk around all mortified about.

All the time, lol. You just have to laugh about it.

We went to Wal-mart the other day and the man ringing us up was elderly. Really, really elderly.

My husband's great-uncle just passed away about three weeks ago and we took the opportunity to explain to my six year old step son Alarich about death and how when people are very old they are going to die.

So in his little six year old voice, he looks up at the cashier and goes, "You should go home. You don't wanna die in Wal-mart!"

And the guy looked all confused, and Alarich looks at my husband and says "Is he gonna die right now?"

It was sort of hilarious... but really embarrassing.