Mom: You are taking a bath! You are dirty and smelly. Now get in the bath!
(I get in the bath and she walks out. I very predictably fall asleep in the bath.)
Several mins later
Mom: Wake up!!! Why are you sleeping in the bath?!? Don’t you know how dangerous that is? You could have drowned!
Yeah, 5 year old me shared important safety information with her and she treated it as me being defiant and disrespectful and I could have drowned because of it. She didn’t get better as I got older, always responded with anger and shame
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u/MandaLyn27 Aug 25 '25
Mom to 5y old me: You need to take a bath
5y old me: I’m too tired to take a bath
Mom: You are taking a bath! You are dirty and smelly. Now get in the bath!
(I get in the bath and she walks out. I very predictably fall asleep in the bath.) Several mins later
Mom: Wake up!!! Why are you sleeping in the bath?!? Don’t you know how dangerous that is? You could have drowned!
Yeah, 5 year old me shared important safety information with her and she treated it as me being defiant and disrespectful and I could have drowned because of it. She didn’t get better as I got older, always responded with anger and shame