Daughter won't take her socks off on holiday

My 16yo calls them the exact same thing 😊

Teenagers have a thing these days about bare feet - my daughter and her friends cringe at the sight and mention of bare feet. They call them ‘grippers’ and are disgusted with bare feet, talk about how disgusting it is when their teachers get their grippers out i.e. wear sandals with bare feet. I kid you not. 😂

This is going to sound very sad and pathetic but I have no one else to go with.

Only child, no cousins, no family other than my mum, single, all my friends either:

don’t go on holidays,
or go with their boyfriends/partners or their mums or families.
Others (who are immigrants) go see their family abroad in their home country every year instead of holiday.

I haven’t been on holiday since I was 16 and she promised and swore she will behave

Why are you going away with her at 28, when she is so unkind? You can say no

Absolutely. With a mother like that who needs enemies!!

LMAO I CANT, IF NOT FOR AGE DIFFERENCE AND THE FACT THAT I WAS IN GRAN CANARIA FEW WEEKS AGO ID THINK MY MOTHER WROTE THIS POST

People ask if this is a joke post but this is how my mum is

i was just in gc with her and other family she kept telling me she didn’t approve of my outfit. When I told her not to comment on my outfit again few hours later I turn around and see her laughing with some people on loungers. More like she was laughing The couple had kind of a confused look in their face.

i ask her what that is about, turns out she came up to some random couple to make fun of my outfit. Look at my daughter’s outfit.

she inspects my clothes when we are standing getting up close all up in my face and clothes.

I refused to wear belt she liked few times she got up and began physically putting it on me!

my dad offered me a cottage cheese smoothie, I said no I hate cottage cheese. She began lecturing me always since you were a kid favourite word NO, NO, NO,NO. You have to try new foods. You have to make yourself like stuff. One bite. Cmon. Open mouth. Cmon.

when I asked her to pass me something she goes you are not getting that is pancakes, cake etc bad for you.

whenever i am cooking, just getting fruits or vegetables out of bag, haven’t even got them out of bag yet she goes DONT FORGET TO WASH THEM. They are dirty! Wash them! Every single time.

when I was 16 and doctor asked me questions she kept answering for me not letting get word in and when doctor asked about my period she answered for me she snapped and literally said do you look in her underwear??? How would you know??? My god Let your daughter speak!!!!

heard her telling a friend on phone “she disobeys me and refuses to eat meat” I’ve been a vegetarian for 20 years. BTW she used to sneak meat into my food

told some guy at work “my daughter is a vegetarian too can you call her and try to talk to her how bad it is for you and tell her she is not getting enough protein like that”

I once refused remedy she offered when sick saying I hate onions she began yelling FINE BE SICK!!!

at 21 she saw a can of coke a few times when visiting and began yelling “you will not be drinking that again GOT IT, do you understand me!!!” and threw it away

now aged 28 she constantly bothers me about stuff like lady in op does

socks, not wearing slippers etc

she made posts in facebook groups like op did my daughter this my daughter that and people were shocked

so I believe this post is 1000000 percent real

you are very lucky if you think this a joke post

I hadn’t thought of that but it’s a real possibility.

I don't like being without socks. The feeling of anything other than cotton touching my feet is awful. Wearing socks really doesn't make any difference to body temperature, there is no way someone is going to overheat from wearing socks.

Could she be hiding self harm? I used to wear socks everywhere in my teens and twenties. I would make deep cuts to my ankles and legs before I had therapy and help to stop doing it. They’re still scarred 20 years later .

Is she wrecking your image/your holiday Insta, OP? Thoughts and prayers, and only take photos from the knees up.

Hhmmm. Is OP actually some sort of weird intergenerational socks and sandals pervert, trying to get our stories to wank over? I can't even be arsed to check their post history, the internet has jaded me. And yet I am not surprised if so. This post just seems so odd.

I was going to say similar. I will wear flip flops round a pool or on a beach but mostly because I can’t stand the sand in my trainers!! It never goes!!!

But most of the time I wear socks. I hate feeling bits in my feet and I feel so much calmer with socks. Even in the summer. Not died yet.

and I don’t care what other people think and I’m an adult too and don’t have controlling parents.

😂

I really wouldn't care because I am not that shallow.

Maybe so. But with attitudes like this:
I do worry she will overheat one of these days even at 21 years old.
she's lucky to find anyone to go with her at all. Beggars can't be choosers.

They do, she's wearing them as a fashion choice ,get with it OP!

Oh come on, would any of you really want to be seen out with someone wearing socks and sandals?

Because she's an idiot.

They totally are ankle socks... because, well, they end at the ankle! I used to play rugby so all of my body looks like Miss Trunchbull's sadly. Gone to seed I think is the saying.

I wish I was young and trendy enough to wear socks with my sandals. It's much more comfortable and hygienic

Why? It’s GenZ fashion.

Yes but I expect some engagement from the OP. Some kind of justification for her controlling behaviour.

This is the sort of stuff that I come to mumsnet for

6 pages and no further comments from the OP.

And Romans. Romans wore socks with sandals.