How can I NOT be an embarrassing parent?!!

missindecisive

I mean...I would hate to be the source of embarrassment to my teenager , but today I was !:eek:

I merely picked him up from school in the car...he was walking home with his girlfriend (whom I have met before a couple of times)
He was annoyed with me. ! He got in the car and said " you just had to do that , didn't you ?"

We got home and I explained that I wasn't out to embarrass him, merely to give him a lift home (it is a long walk)

Needless to say he's not happy with me! LOL

What should I be doing? Or more to the point- what should I not be doing?
ADVICE PLEEEESE!!!!!!! LOL.:rotfl:

elsien

It doesn't matter what you do or don't do.
Being an embarrassing parent is the default setting, and is beyond your control. So you might as well have some fun while you're at it.:D

Nicki

That doesn't sound too embarassing. When I was 17 in the summer holidays after A levels just before I went off to university, I was walking home from an evening out with a boy who had been in my class at school for the previous 8 years (not even a boyfriend) and my mum and dad screeched up in the car in their pyjamas, got out and yelled at me to get in! I wasn't even late home and there was no reason at all for them to overreact

Funnily enough I met my now husband in my first term at university, and never went back to live with them...

maggy50

Both my dear sons would not allow me to be seen to be dropping of or picking up from school it had to be three streets away at least.

With my daughter it was different it was mummy who did not want to be seen (her choice of dress, hair colour etc ) lol.

victor2

elsien wrote: »

It doesn't matter what you do or don't do.
Being an embarrassing parent is the default setting, and is beyond your control. So you might as well have some fun while you're at it.:D

So true, so true.
The only good thing about teenagers is that they grow out of it!
All you can do is continue to love and cherish him - from a distance. He'll need you at some point, but will blame you for everything else in the meantime, innit.

I_wanna_live_for_free

elsien wrote: »

It doesn't matter what you do or don't do.
Being an embarrassing parent is the default setting, and is beyond your control. So you might as well have some fun while you're at it.:D

I love the look of sheer terror when I'm out with my daughter and I ask her about some clothes, if they're nice (knowing they're not!) or we see her friends and she forbids me to even open my mouth :rotfl:

thorsoak

Once they get over the fact that you can embarrass them - it can be quite fun THREATENING to do so - or even rushing up to No 3 son as he comes off the rugby pitch and giving him a cuddle and asking if he has a bruise on his bum from a nasty kick and does he want me to kiss it better ......:D

Scrapaholic

Just laugh about it and tell them you're going to enjoy embarrassing them. It's your duty to embarrass your teenage children and they'll have to get over it !

pink_princess

elsien wrote: »

It doesn't matter what you do or don't do.
Being an embarrassing parent is the default setting, and is beyond your control. So you might as well have some fun while you're at it.:D

If my children bring new friends home my husband puts my bra and knickers over his clothes to answer the door or I put a tea towel on my head

pink_princess

thorsoak wrote: »

Once they get over the fact that you can embarrass them - it can be quite fun THREATENING to do so - or even rushing up to No 3 son as he comes off the rugby pitch and giving him a cuddle and asking if he has a bruise on his bum from a nasty kick and does he want me to kiss it better ......:D

:rotfl: Why haven't I thought of that :cool:

I_wanna_live_for_free

pink_princess wrote: »

If my children bring new friends home my husband puts my bra and knickers over his clothes to answer the door or I put a tea towel on my head

OH! Are you not meant to walk through the lounge without clothes on then? Oops