I am here and please don't fight with me, and I am not posting no more. After reading all those posts, it drove me crazy. I agree with the mother too, and CyberRed and Reba..
I think the mother did the right thing and she did a good job. And I don't know why you want to hit her face with a bat. She was there and showing her how tough the world would be, and trying to teach her the education is good, the respect and the responsbilites, the challenges and so on. This mother want the best for her daughter. If the mother didn't do anything, that will make her look bad. But the mother was there, and showing her daughter and she is right, she is trying her best to show her daughter how to grow up in good manners with good respects, responsbilities, and so on. This teenager was a brat, spoiled brat and wanted to play more instead of study more and will involed in the bad crowd or having a hard life with low life job. The mother had to fight with her and get her to realize and get her to open up and go head to get a better educations and better life with a good job. I won't be surprised if this teen girl become a doctor after she get out from college, and her mother will getting a good reward from her daughter.
I was like the teenager when I was growing up. I failed a lot of classes and my mom told me to get out the house or get a job when I was 16 years old. No car, no movies, no allowance and no nothing or eat anything in under my mom's roof. My mom yelled and told me if you want to eat my food, you pay me, if you want to drive, you pay me for gas and insurance, if you want to go out to movie, how you go in and pay for yourself, if you want to eat in school, how you pay for it, there are many things that I never realized that. Getting a good education mean getting a good job in the future. That same for college too. My mom had to go hell with me and slapped my face for calling her names and everything and pushed me out the house. I remembered that she told me, you brought home bad grade, then pack your stuffs and get out the house. I was rebel and didn't care for her, she got me to the wall and yelled at me, and said, "I paid for this house, I paid for your hospital bills, I paid for everything for you, and don't realize how hard it is going to be. You better bring your grade up, you will have something or if not, you won't get NOTHING." I was like :-o Remember being teenager is not easy to work with. I realized that my mom wanted me to learn and open my eyes and see what the world is like. It is not easy. But I love my mom and my mom love me, but we fought like 2 hissy cats and scratching each other. And I realized that my mom won the battle and she was right about everything and I had to realized that making a good grades and I got better job, and staying out the trouble that i was not suppose to be in. My mom wanted me to have the best things for me (and my siblings too). I owe my mom for everything. She is the best, but she is tough but she know that she is always right. Now, we are the best buddies forever.
If my son, Kyler, is like that teen girl, I would go thru the same thing what my mom have taught me. I would yell at him and go hell with him. My husband would do the same thing, but one thing, my husband grew up in the Army and he know what his father would do to my husband while growing up, his father would yell, give commands, and make him run or sit up 100 times. Mostly like boot camp. But it worked for him. If Kyler become a lazy or stubborn in school or not learning, there are options that we will tell him what to do. If he won't bring home with good grade or hang out in the wrong crowds or something, I will send him to the boot camp or someplace. If refuse, then he is out of my house. Let him learn what is like to live on his own. Someday he would crawl back and say "Mommy, I am sorry, I will do better this time." I know I am right and my mother is right.
I agreed with CyberRed and Reba...
I guess people have different ways of parenting to their kids. This mother and teenager are almost like what I have grew up with my mom.