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[quote=Anonymous]My teenage (17) DD said that to me today. I have 6 kids, my 17 yr old is the eldest and she is awesome about helping to raise the littles. Today I had a doctors appointment for the 19 month old, DD (17)  is on summer vacation already so she has been helping with the younger ones while I work (until my vacation starts on June 14th). Anyway, she got the four kids dressed and fed this morning and loaded them into the car to go to the doctor's appt, I drove us to the office. While there, she said once, "why did we have to come? I could have stayed at home with the kids?". She was being pissy because she had to entertain the 4 (that were not being seen by the Dr) in the waiting room for 2 hours.

When we came out, the kids were all rambunctious and I was saying how I was extremely stressed out. DD, then said something along the lines of, "Mom, stop being a martyr, you wouldn't be so stressed if you didn't insist on taking 5 extra people to an appointment". I told her that she was being unsupportive and rude to me. We haven't spoken since this morning, she is at home with the kids. If it matters, DD often cares for the kids by doing things like baths, bed, dinner, morning routine etc. and she drives them to activities and school.

I guess I just don't understand how I was being a "martyr" when I was genuinely stressed out? Is DD just being a brat? [/quote]

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