OVER PROTECTIVE MUM HERE, WHEN DOES THE WORRYING STOP?
I am way to protective over my daughter's especially my youngest as my oldest has already moved out and looks after herself but my youngest who is nearly 21 still lives with us.
Once you have a baby then there yours to look after forever, worry about and be there for them. My oldest didn't go out drinking much but my youngest loves a night out on the town with her friends, She takes a lot after me. My mother never seemed to worry about me when i went out but OMG it turns my stomach knowing she's out there and you aren't there to protect her if anything goes wrong. Not that i could do anything as she looks after me, that feeling of not knowing and wishing she was home in bed Safe lasts until the moment her key turns in the door lock.
Usually she goes to our town which is 10 minutes away but tonight her and her friends came here for a few drinks then got a late metro into Newcastle to go to the clubs and I'm a nervous wreck as she's never been. Newcastle gets super busy. I now have to lay awake until i hear her open the front door which could be around 6am...
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I thought by the time they were growing all the worrying would stop but seems it gets worse. I don't just work about her i now worry about her friends.
Thank you son-of-satire
Once a mother, always a mother, Karen. You always worry about them, even when they have families of their own. My youngest is 28 and I worry about him too when he goes out. I know he is a good lad, but we live in troubling times so it makes it that much worse. I have only sons, but I can imagine having daughters makes the worry worse.
Your so right these times are really scary, i make her text me through the night just to let me know she's OK, she landed home around 5am
Then you lie there, thinking of what you did in your youth, and wonder how you can get the slave to nail the door shut before she gets the chance to go out again.
Tell her how worried you are, suggest she rings you on the hour, every hour to put your mind at rest.
I was a buga in my day, nightclubbing 4 nights a week but i hates my parents and they definitely didn't worry about me. She landed home around 5 this morning, i make her text me through the night. I can rest once i know she is safe :)
Just remind her about "Grandkids" , they tend to slow things down quickly.
There both not intetested. My grandchildren are my dogs lol
Ask the slave, he will remember, don't use sweet talk to get where you want to go, liquor is quicker.
Sweet talk...as if LOL :)
It's a tough job being a parent.
I know what that's like. I worry about my parent all the time. They used to go out and stay out 'till all hours drinking with God only knows who.
And you've seen my Dad's blog so you know the sort of crap he gets up to. This is why I have more grey hair than he does!
Luckily for my parents, I never gave them any cause to worry about me, ever - because I hardly ever went out, because there was nowhere to go hehe.
Such is rural NZ.
I really feel for you, he must have been a handful whilst you were growing up, you would think he would know better. I am pleased to see you are not as wild as him.
I bet you made your own fun haha :)
My dad said to email you about tools I use to track my wife (well, she tracks me when I'm running actually).
It's an app for the phone called Glympse. You can share your location with whoever you want for a specific period of time (up to about 12 hours I think). So she wouldn't need it to be running all the time, just when she is out and about down town.
It works pretty well for us, so maybe it will work for you also.
I will check it out thank you .
I am glad your wifey tracks you, the amount off times you fall over you need a carer lol :)
hehehe you are not wrong!
I can relate to your feeling as well! And I am just a father with a young daughter. But the part of letting her go to the big city makes me shiver...Hopefully, by then, I am still cool enough, as a dad that I can go along with her and her friends
Its a horrible feeling knowing there out there, they are only having fun but its others that spoil it. You have to let them go at some point, the way things are these days its harder.
Oh yes. It actually is more serious when we are older. And I think the most a person who cares about someone can do is to give the best advice
I try to, she texts me through the night, it keeps me awake but its peace of mind :)
The worrying over our kids never stops, trust me...
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It keeps getting worse and they don't care 😏😏😂