Me Time!

[Sun_2010]

slmkhoo:

sleepy:

[quote=\"slmkhoo\"] I think it's because I cramp their style. I'm quite happy to be left out of most of their things, anyway.

I would be upset
Confirm throw them the unfilial hat

slmkhoo:

They say I am scary and frighten their friends

If they ever dare to say this, I would retort they are obviously mixing with the wrong crowd :mad:
Time to change friends

I don't take it to heart. I remember being a teen, and no matter how much you love your parents, there's a greater feeling of freedom and independence when you are on your own without them there. I never did anything I couldn't have let them see, and I trust my kids will be that way too. And I don't mind being called 'scary' - my kids say it with a grin and are only half-serious, but we all know that discipline levels are higher in our home than in many of their friends'. They don't resent it, but they know their friends may not be used to someone like me![/quote]So true,
When I happen to drop by DD's school, and happen to see some of her friends ( not very close ones) especially boys , they have this awkward look, should i smile/greet- does she remember me, may be she cant see me, maybe I should just slink away ... its like they dont know how to react .
Evil me, I take great joy to greeting them cheerfully and asking how is school/life .

[Jennifer]

Sun_2010:

Evil me, I take great joy to greeting them cheerfully and asking how is school/life .

:rotflmao:

[janet88]

If you want the kids to be happy and not embarrassed, you can get some snacks to give your kids…another way of doing spot-check when kids claim to be doing project with friends in school. After buying snack, go to the school and call child, telling him/her you bought snack for them…when you gain confidence and child roughly gets the idea, you can reduce frequency.

[sleepy]

Sun_2010:

especially boys , they have this awkward look, should i smile/greet- does she remember me, may be she cant see me, maybe I should just slink away ... its like they dont know how to react .

Evil me, I take great joy to greeting them cheerfully and asking how is school/life .

I like this :ugogirl:

[sleepy]

bb_ mom:

starlight1968sg:

[quote=\"sleepy\"] I read teens magazine sometimes

Pardon me, what is those real fine print?

She shy about reading teen mags cos she goes goo goo ga ga over Kpop stars. Sh....[/quote]

Sun_2010:

:nunchuk: sleepy - testing our eye....

:oops:

By the way, I have just given my review on kpop fitness at sleepy's thread

[jetsetter]

janet_lee88:

If you want the kids to be happy and not embarrassed, you can get some snacks to give your kids...another way of doing spot-check when kids claim to be doing project with friends in school. After buying snack, go to the school and call child, telling him/her you bought snack for them...when you gain confidence and child roughly gets the idea, you can reduce frequency.

Excellent idea, janet!

[Funz]

Sun_2010:

So true,
When I happen to drop by DD's school, and happen to see some of her friends ( not very close ones) especially boys , they have this awkward look, should i smile/greet- does she remember me, may be she cant see me, maybe I should just slink away ... its like they dont know how to react .
Evil me, I take great joy to greeting them cheerfully and asking how is school/life .

I find that kids these days lack basic manners. Not sure if they are that shy or they are just not taught to greet their friend's parents or any elders for that matter when they see them. I can be standing with either DD or DS and the kids will run up and talk to them and I can jolly well be a tree for all they care. Even when they come to my house, more often than not, they do not greet me or DH.

I am also quite evil and my kids will roll their eyes. With kids who do not greet, I will make it a point to introduce myself and ask them their names and greet them. If we meet again and again they do not greet, I will say stuff like 'I believe we have met, you are XX, you can call me aunty Funz.' That will usually get me a small little 'Hi...' DD and DS will tell their friends that I have this thing about greeting people, especially if they are coming to our house. Haha. Whenever their friends come to our house, DD and DS will remind them to come greet me and DH and when they are leaving, to say goodbye.

Most of the kids are ok with me. Most of them are totally terrified of DH.

[FB555]

My dd is very shy girl. Even if i manage to get her to greet the aunty and uncle, be it the neighbours or her friends’ mummies, her voice is always very soft and she tried to hide away. Sometimes she don’t even want to greet or even say a simple ‘hello’.

I have told her several times that it is rude not to greet others but her super shy nature still sucumb her to ‘hide’away.
I become the one to say ‘good morning’ and ‘hello’ on her behalf.
Even though ds is not as shy as dd, but he still need my constant reminder to greet people.
I always remind them before they go for enrichment class to greet their teacher. Dd always give me excuse on why she never greet the teacher.

Sometimes, their schoolmates saw them (both ds and dd) outside school, they will start calling out to them by their names and my twins will ignore them. In the end i am the one that calling their friends names and saying hello to them.
Luckily i know all their friends’ names bcos i have been checking on their names from my kids.

We do not invite their friends because most of time are either spend on enrichment classes, assessment books and learnlogy.

[bb_ mom]

Funz:

Even when they come to my house, more often than not, they do not greet me or DH.

Same here! DH was mystified how they can come in without greeting us or leave without saying goodbye when we're seating near the entrance? We not that scary. Plaster a smile on our face when they come in and when they leave.

[wonderm]

I have difference experience it seems. Most of my boys’ friends greet us with wide smiles when they see us (those who met us before). Once I was waiting for my DS at the pickup point (at another sec school, for an inter-school event), before DS came out, one of his friends walked over and greeted me and said goodbye before leaving with his parents. I remembered being pleasantly surprised and I thought it is because the teenagers today are much less shy than our time.