So irritated with my mother at kids sports games
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The crowd is silent, the kid is up to bat, and my mother at the top of her voice "So your aunt called and she fractured her foot today". It echoes through the park...
Next kid up "Don't you know those women over there? Are you friends? Sometimes I wonder if you're antisocial." Me, whispering: "Should I go talk to them?" "No, but you could at least introduce them to your mother." My own kid strikes out. "He needs practice. I guess I'll have to practice with him since his father can't be bothered." Me: "What are you talking about? They practice together all the time " "Well you never mentioned it so I figured it wasn't happening. It certainly doesn't look like they've been practicing. If you don't tell me what's going on I have to assume the worst." My blood pressure is still through the roof. |
Anonymous
| I would not tell her when the next game is. Or any other game. |
Anonymous
+1 Yeah, that's awful. But if she wasn't like that when she was mothering you, losing your filter and inhibitions can be part of dementia (and probably other diseases associated with aging). |
Anonymous
| Why are you bringing her to games? |
Anonymous
| Stop bringing her and get her hearing aids. |
Anonymous
| My mom is like this. She never stopped doing it. Now she doesn't come. She was always bored at games and didn't understand how to behave. I couldn't teach her. She constantly thought the game was the best time to talk about a problem. It was awful. |
Anonymous
| I stopped inviting my mil long ago. She likes to loudly badmouth other kids. I just can’t. |
Anonymous
Mine too it’s so embarrassing. Loud comments describing their appearance, etc. |
Anonymous
OMG this describes it so well. I have a couple friends like this with whom t I learned not to socialize at places where I did not want to be embarrassed. |
Anonymous
No she's always been like this. No dementia just severe Main Character Syndrome. |
Anonymous
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Don’t sit in the bleachers, bring your own chairs & sit say out off of 3rd base. Tell her you can see DC better from there.
There is no changing her now, so she either doesn’t come or you isolate. |
Anonymous
| Ha! My mom is so inappropriate in public. And loud. It takes manoeuvring but pretty much she’s not going to be at any future kid events ( except I suppose I can’t keep her out of graduation). But I feel you |
Anonymous
Then don't bring her. I've made up excuses to not bring my mother with me to school events, because she's said things that really embarrassed my kids. But she's showing signs of dementia. People are what they are, you just need to adjust to that reality. |
Anonymous
This. My mother has panic attacks- full blown- when my kids compete. We don’t tell her until the games are over and then only if she asks. She won’t do anything about the panic attacks so… |
Anonymous
| We stopped inviting the il’s when we found out they were over sharing information with other team parents. |