We all got this in verbal form as teenagers.
Teenagers are known for loving their sleep. Lie-ins are a must and getting up for school is dreadful.
One you become an adult and start working you would like nothing more than to go back to the days where you could sleep the day away. The one thing we wouldn’t like to go back to though, is our mothers shouting at us to get up.
You’d be in a deep afternoon sleep when suddenly you’d hear your mam legging it up the stairs or feel your duvet being lifted off you when she comes in to give out to you.
Perhaps this is why a letter that one woman wrote her daughter is getting so much attention online.
When Nicole Poppic’s daughter slept in one morning when she was meant to be in school, she had no sympathy.
“When we finally got in the car and I looked at the clock and realized that we were running late, I started doing the ‘mom’ thing,” Poppic told TODAY Parents. “My lecture went something along the lines of, ‘You need to start thinking about other people, Cara. You are not the only person in this family, and you made your brother and sister late, too.”
When Cara was acting like a moody teenager her mother decided she’d had enough.
“I saw that Cara had put in her headphones and was staring out her window, completely ignoring me,” she said. “I reached over and took her phone off her lap, unplugged her headphones, and threw her phone out the car window.”
The phone was okay apparently, when Cara went back to get it!
When Nicole wrote her daughter a note for school for being late, she included no excuses other than the ‘condition known as teenage-ism’.
The note reads:
“Cara is tardy this morning as a result of a condition known as ‘teenage-ism,'”
“Adolescents across our great nation are afflicted, and there is no known cure.” “an inability to remove herself from her bed” and “talking back to her birth-giver.” She walked the note into the attendance office with Cara and handed it to the clerk herself. “The attendance clerk cracked a smile,”
“Symptoms are multitudinous, she suffers from an inability to remove herself from her bed, and also feels the need to talk back to her birth-giver.”
“She seems to be recovering her senses after watching her cell phone fly out the car window.”
To make sure it got delivered, Nicole handed into the school herself.
She’s really not messing around.
The post has become hugely viral in recent days with over 7 thousand likes and 33 thousand shares!
It reminds us, of a thankfully more extreme version, of our mammies.
