10yo DD already finds me very embarrassing

[ragged]

My recent cardinal sins include:

• Walking around swim pool changing area saying "Where are you?"
  
• Wearing a jumper longer than my jacket (both fine on own, just not supposed to peek out underneath)
  
• Wearing fleece jacket with short skirt
  
• Confirming after school plans with her best mate (whilst they were queued up to go into school in morning)
  
  Is she going to peak early with the "Can't stand to be seen in public with you" thing, or will she progress to far worse than the above in 4-5 yrs?

[brighthair]

Do what my mum does. Wait until child/teen is walking off from car. Wind down window. Shout at top volume (pref in poshest voice you can muster) "missing you already darling. See you at din dins"

[AnyFucker]

Congratulations !

You are doing something very right indeed

[NettoSuperstar]

DD was mortified the other week, when I said in a shop, to her, in a quiet voice, 'Oh, I like those crisps'

[MoreBeta]

Making DSs carry their rucksacks with both straps on their shoulders with the straps shortened so it isn't hanging half way down their backside does the job for me.

[FoofyShmooffer]

Ah. Good to know.

My DS(10) is the same and I did wonder if this was it know.

-don't dance(in my own home) its embarrassing.
-don't sing, it's embarrassing.
-don't wear converse you're too old.

My favourite so far is - don't dye your hair that colour they won't want you to help out at school.

[AnyFucker]

when you are clothes shopping, be sure to dance around to the tunez

[FoofyShmooffer]

Was it now*

[gaunyerseljeannie]

Sing James Blunt's Beautiful to her in best posh voice.. been at it for years, works with both genders

[NettoSuperstar]

DD hates my singing and dancing, I do it all the more to annoy her
I also wear my I love Jedward Tshirt.
My existence embarrasses her.

[NettoSuperstar]

I never get the chance to wear my Converse, because she's always bloody wearing them.
I must buy her a few pairs actually, as her feet will grow, and then I get them

[CeliaFate]

Blimey, my dd is nearly 12 and isn't embarrassed by me yet thankfully.
We walk arm in arm, sing, do silly things and go clothes shopping.
Before anyone says it, I am not one of those mothers who trill, "Ooh we're more like sisters than mother and daughter!" (vomit).
I am a strict parent, so I guess it's just a matter of time before she's mortified by me unless I'm just, like waaaaay too cool.

[ragged]

Behind closed doors DD can still be very adoring, though. Kind of doing my head in :).

[ReallyTired]

Surely its the raison d'etre for parents to embrass their kids.

[Sparklingbrook]

DS2 (10) really doesn't care about me embarassing him. DS 1 (nearly 13) on the other hand-

I can only drop him at school if I drop him in a certain place.
if I take him and his mates at a footy match I must not speak in the car

[bringbacksideburns]

I was dancing this morning to a song on my spotify playlist called Shake, shake, shake and my daughter did this withering cock of her eyebrow and looked at me in disgust.

She's 9.

I'll never be as embarrassing as my mum was, but i'm going to damn well try.

[cory]

I'd expect her to peak. Especially if she in Yr 6, which is a bit of an awkward year socially: they're too big for their boots but scared of the next step up into the big world.

Ds at 11 is already better than he was at 10. Dd at 15 is really quite tolerant.

[ragged]

y5 actually, but I live in hope of peaking soon!
15 minutes ago she had a melt down about a half opened sachet of cat food in the fridge.
In case her friends saw it, because it would be so embarassing. (No friends due to pop in conceivable future, much less browse in our fridge).
I burst out laughing. She was not impressed. But has since apologised, at least.

[ripsishere]

at cat food meltdown.
My DD is hideously embarrassed by me - or so she tells me.
Apparently I shouldn't say hello to her freinds, certainly not the boys 'they don't fancy you you know'. Well thank fuck for that. Some aren't 11 yet.
Nor should I sing in anybody's earshot or play Johnny Cash CDs in the car with the windows open.
I must never wave at her if I walk past her classroom.
Shouting encouragingly at her football is not allowed - although standing in the freezing rain for two hours then giving her friends a lift home is.
Putting grapes into her lunch is pointless and a small portion of jelly is shameful.