I was walking with my daughter Iyende yesterday, she walked with me to the store. We had a nice time, just talking and laughing and hanging out. Or so I thought. On the way home I was talking about something, and she seemed to be listening; she was talking back and nodding her head and stuff. Then she turned to me and said, Why do you talk so much? I was like Huh? She then said Yeah you talk all the time, way too much, and you’re not even talking about anything important. I was like Huh? Excuse me? I am then informed that I shouldn’t just ‘chatter’ at her, I should only talk to her if I had something of importance to say to her. WTF! So I tell her, Look here, I don’t know how many times I have listened to you and your friends talking about nonsense. And she says Yeah, but that’s my friends, not you.

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So I said Fine, I won’t talk to you then and I pulled up my headphones and turned my ipod on (I can’t stand those ear buds it came with). She then walks on ahead of me and we go home. Inside, I was seething, I felt so hurt. This is my baby girl who used to hang onto my every word and love hanging out with me. I know she is 16, I know this is a phase, but still, it hurt my feelings.

Later when we were home she came asking me something, and I said I would tell you but I don’t think it’s important, ha ha ha. This must have happened 5 times before she said Ok mom I get it! I’m sorry, sheesh!

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