Parenting Teens: Mom Choke Me
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 11:59PM Admittedly a weird request. There are times I want to throttle the child but I have never been asked to do so before. This request was connected to practicing the self-defense portion of her belt testing.
She ran back into the class building yesterday and ran out again with broken boards. The boards were a little over an inch thick. “How did you break them?” I inquired.
“With my elbow, a side kick and a front kick” she replies as if breaking things with your feet were a common occurrence in most people’s lives.
Later I was asked to sit on her and pretend I was going to punch her in the face. Not a comfortable position for a mom to be in. Even less comfortable was being flipped by someone I outweigh by a good 50 (60) pounds.
Tae Kwon Do has taught her focus, power, strength and grace. Her teacher is about 4 foot something, a third-degree black belt and a Christ follower. My daughter has role modeled before her that a woman can be strong, graceful and smart and can use her strengths to God’s glory and for others good.
In addition, she can literally flip off her mom without getting in trouble.
Has your child made any weird requests?
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Reader Comments (5)
I've been asked why I'm so likable and to stop it (!) by my teenager. Funny, I always thought having the parent that people liked was a good thing. Apparently, I was wrong.
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That's funny! I think it would really be difficult to do anything that could possibly end up hurting our own kids, even when they ask for it!
Stacey, What can we do! They are never quite happy with us.
Patricia, Thank you, that is very kind . I will stop by.
Lynne, It was hard until I was the one soaring through the air!
I found this to be very entertaining and linked it in to my blog at http://parentingteens.about.com/b/