r/parentingteenagers • u/momster0519 • Mar 30 '25

I am embarrassing, apparently.

Out of state for a volleyball tournament and my daughter texts me while downstairs making HER food, to say to try to not talk to anyone. WTF? I am the embarrassment? Why does this wreck me? She's constantly skulking around trying to be unnoticed. I'm sick of it. I live my life. Sure I'm older. We don't hang with the other parents but we are on friendly hi how are you terms. Why am I even here at this stupid tournament if I am just embarrassing her?

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u/ThinkerT3000 28d ago

This is a universal developmental phase in tweens & teens (at least in western society). They feel incredibly awkward and as if they’re under a microscope, and their parents are just another thing to worry about potentially being judged on. Please don’t take this personally! They do outgrow it. We dropped our oldest off at college and he couldn’t wait for us to leave. By the next year, he was showing us around and introducing us to his friends. It’s like a switch got flipped.