A parent’s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed." SMDS

As a parent you try your best to raise your children to be independent upstanding citizens by the time they turn 18….that will be in 2 years 9mths and 1 day from today for my daughter and I feel I will need to find out where to fill out the paperwork to request an extension on that timeframe.

Threw no fault of her own my daughter was sanctified before her life had even been created with the ``when you have children they will grow up to be just like you`` curse that so many mothers bring upon there offspring in a moment of anguish during the teenrage years.  I did not believe this curse could possibly be true at the time, feeling that my efforts at child rearing would certainly be different and intern better then my parents.  I would be the warm and understanding parent like the Black People I had seen on TV. I would be the fair and honest Lawyer/Mother married to the unattractive but funny Doctor. In the evenings I would still be home in time to cook dinner and every problem would be solved in 30mins or less ending in a group hug and a peppy theme song. Jazz musician in-laws to be decided in later episodes. And yet, somehow me and my daughter have ended up in a very same place having the same arguments me and my Mom had time and again only now I am the dreaded parental unit asking where did I go wrong? And how come she doesn’t understand how important even minor decisions in life are?

Sometimes I just want to shake her into understanding me.  Maybe my daughter will understand where I am coming from when she is older and has children of her own. They will of course inevitably grow up to be just like her…..Oh crap… cursed again…