It's official! I'm embarrassing....

@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
January 14, 2010 11:04am CST
Eventually we are all going to embarrass our kids at least once, right? I love my satellite radio. And I listen to a lot of different things, rock, country, blues, etc. But my three favorite stations are, in order, Broadway, Sinatra and Opera. And today it was on the opera channel when I took the kids to school and it was an opera that I like, so I left it there. Some days I change it over to CD for the kids. We got in front of the middle school and Dearra looks at me kind of funny and says, "there are a lot of kids here." "So? It's a school." "So, if I open the door, they'll hear the music." Sigh. Turn off radio. "Ok, it's safe to open the door now." Have you embarrassed your children today?
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
14 Jan 10
I can't see a single thing embarrassing in that, I love opera and Frank. Now it would have been embarrassing if you'd been playing something dire like Cliff Richard. (see if sandra spots that one). As far as I know I am yet to embarrass my son, but I expect he won't want to sit on my knee much longer in a public place in case his friends see.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
My mom probably would have turned the volume up instead of turning it off. Yes, let's see if Sandra pops by and sees that (Dawn ducks)...
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@BarBaraPrz (45570)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jan 10
[i]We're all goin' on a summer holiday, No more working for a week or two...[/i]
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• Spain
14 Jan 10
Yes, Sandra spotted it. Barbara is obviously a Cliff fan. Thea is going to get deleted very soon. Dawn, I like opera and Frank Sinatra. Your kids need to realise how lucky they are. You haven't embarrased them - they have no taste, so they could embarrass you, if you allowed them to, but you probably won't.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
14 Jan 10
Next time you need to switch on the channel to hip hop music so she'll be proud to show off to her friends that she has an up-to-date mom.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
14 Jan 10
I know hip hops are vomit inducing and I am no fan of this music either.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
Maybe I can find clear earplugs so they think I'm listening!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
Can I put earplugs in first?
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@BarBaraPrz (45570)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jan 10
I don't have any children to embarrass. I miss all the fun.
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@BarBaraPrz (45570)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Jan 10
I've found that other people's kids don't get as embarrassed.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
yeah it really only works on your own children...
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
Hm, I could loan one to you...
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• United States
14 Jan 10
Hehehe...that is too funny dawnald. Remember back to when we were kids and our parents would do embarrassing things? I remember apologizing to my friends quite often for my parents embarrassments. My kids are still young so I am still pretty cool right now but i am sure here within the next couple of years i will be a big embarrassment LOL but they will have to deal with it because I would only do it because i love them so much
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
I was more embarrassed by the pink house than my parents' behavior.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
14 Jan 10
@dawn: I akways wanted a pink house.Seriously. It was quite the colour out here a few years ago but now yellow is in fashion.I don't look good against yellow.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
If it had really been pink, OK. But it was more some dreadful shade of salmon.
• Boston, Massachusetts
16 Jan 10
Hi Dawn, Really you felt that you are?!!! Kids are really so expressive and smart to let us know what's going on in their thoughts and feelings. so next time you will be more careful in the choice of music every time you take your kids to school. i am imagining the scene and looking at kid and other kids reaction--it's amazingly funny!
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Jan 10
I doubt the other kids would even notice. But I'll just put my music on after they are all out of the car!
• Israel
16 Jan 10
I'm sure the other kids would sympathize because they have embarrassing parents with bad taste in music too. LOL All adults are embarrassing to kids.
• Boston, Massachusetts
16 Jan 10
that's a good move. playing your music after they get out of your car. you have a happy family and mom-kids relationship. i salute you for doing that dawn!
@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I thought embarassing them, never letting them do anything!, and ruining their lives was part of the job desciption?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
lol Poor Dearra is so sensitive, I thought I'd cut her a break today.
• United States
14 Jan 10
Oh yes..I am so not looking forward for the "You never let me do anything, you have so ruined me life" speech when my daughter becomes a teen
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@jewels49 (1776)
• United States
14 Jan 10
Sometmes a break is called for. froggieslover I can promise you, those aren't discussions to be looked forward to. Your job is to live through them..or take them down with you!!
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@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
14 Jan 10
Not a problem I have lately - like ever, and I don't think my mother ever embarrassed me, but she probably did my brother and sister
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@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
14 Jan 10
when I got to middle school, my brother wanted NOTHING to do with me and NOW he wonders why we don't get along...
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
I remember walking home from school and my sister made me walk way behind her (younger sister yet)...
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Hi Dawnald, Oh yes. Usually my kids would get embarrassed by the cars I drove. What can I say? We were poor and I drove whatever I could afford to get me back and forth to where I needed to be. I would be asked to drop them off down the road so that other kids wouldn't see etc. They did not want other people to think we are poor. But we ARE poor. Why hide it? I listen to quite a wide variety of music also. I was always pretty sensitive to the kids while they were in the car. I know that feeling of embarrassment. I remember back in highschool ducking down when I was in my friends car because she listened to country and anyone that had an ounce of coolness listened to rock. I did not even want anyone to know that I hung out with anyone that would listen to country.
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
15 Jan 10
Oh trust me....I did the horn thing a time or two or maybe 3! It's kind of funny what they think is so embarrassing at that age. I noticed once they got older, suddenly just having a vehicle that got them from point A to Point B that they could afford was better than not having a car at all.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
My husband had a co-worker who had 5 daughters and they wanted him to drop them off a block away from school, because he had an old, beaten up looking van. So he would drive up right in front of the school, honk the horn and THEN let them off.
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@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
15 Jan 10
My mom sometimes embarrasses me in front of others. I have to signal her with my eyes, LOL..
@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
16 Jan 10
Sometimes it works and sometimes she just wink at me back just to tease me ROFL.....
@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
16 Jan 10
winks*
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
Does it work?
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@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
21 Jan 10
LOL dawnald, it is bound to happen at some stage or the other.I have 3 grown up children and though we share a great rapport, I am sure certain things I do are bound to embarrass them, but frankly I have to do what I have to do, so I go on...I am sure they will understand as they grow older...
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Jan 10
Probably when they become parents!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Jan 10
I wish mine were more sure of themselves...
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
21 Jan 10
Quite possibly so...but one must admit that the youngsters today are very smart, much smarter than what my generation was ......They are so sure of themselves and I really like that ...
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
14 Jan 10
Not Today - at least I do not think so. I have embarrassed them yes and that is o.k. as they certainly have embarrassed me too. I think that this is o.k. and then they get past it as they grow older. My music also embarrasses children.Just give them'the look' and turn it up louder if I am feeling a bit stroppy and not willing to negotiate which channel to turn to. I do not tell them what to play if I am in their car so they can listen to what I want in my car. Fair?
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
14 Jan 10
that's right, the embarrass us too, must remember that important point! I wonder what she would say if I offered to turn the opera UP!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
She didn't appreciate the joke!
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
14 Jan 10
Try it says Cynthie running off into the rain!
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@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
15 Jan 10
LOL, well it doesn't count until you leave it on while she opens the door, but yes, I embarrassed my kids a few times, just being "old." So, dear, welcome to the "Most Embarrassing Mom's" club :) Free membership, btw. lol Karen
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
I asked her if I could sing my "Hansel and Gretel" song in front of her friends. That didn't go over well...
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• United States
16 Jan 10
I can only imagine lol!
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Jan 10
Hiya dawnald, I try to sing only when I´m on my own as I love to sing in English anything that´s going what´s that one now the boy does nothing the boy does nothing, no wait a minute it´s the one with the halo, the halo bit in it all the time and something else that keeps repeating Wiki Wiki. I embarrass so they say with that yet no one can hear me as they are all out and I don´t sing that loud or do I?
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Jan 10
My children won't let me sing.
• Pamplona, Spain
20 Jan 10
Hiya dawnald, Sing when they are at School no one can stop you then. Besides you can really let your hair down and belt out those songs you like the best go girl go sing away louder I can´t hear you from here (grin). Take care now.
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• United States
14 Jan 10
My business partner(single dad) has a son. I have watched him grow up from 10 to 16. He is not even afraid of being embarrassed anymore. As we have already embarrassed him to fullest extent. Whenever I or his father would pick him up or take him to school we would always ready a CD of Michael Jackson, or Boy George. It was funny to us and after the first couple of times he started turning the music up before he got out of the car so he could make fun of us. Embarrassment is part of life. I think it teaches humility and strengthens character.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
I love how he turned that around on you!!!
• United States
15 Jan 10
He's a sneaky one! But most teenagers are these days.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan 10
Lol Dawn but I guess it would have been different if it was their Music lol My Daughter used to be like that well sometimes still is lol I used to turn it up louder and open my Window and all I got was " Mum you are so embarrassing sometimes, all my Friends will hear htis" Yep well never mind
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
Oh yes, it would have been so different. I would have been wearing earplugs!
• United States
15 Jan 10
i don't have any kids to embarrass.i miss all the fun. oh wait..i have nephews.. it'd be twisted sister time if i heard that. oh my god..i'm turning into my dad..
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
I turned into my dad (or some weird mom/dad hybrid) years ago...
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
15 Jan 10
I'm a teacher. I probably embarass them all the time. The great thing is that NICK at night and some of the other stations are playing stuff when we were kids and now these kids actually know that stuff. Like the William Tell Overture (I think that's what it's called) of the Lone Ranger. Also, some day, when they take music class, they'll know the answers to things the other kids won't know because they've been explosed to so many kinds of music that the other kids haven't. So, it's good for them. Opera and spinach. Take care
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
Yep, William Tell, I know it well... Sometimes I feed them spinach too. My son says it looks like barf...
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
15 Jan 10
All kids when they reach a certain age are embarassed by everything their parents do. I don't thinkmine have ever gotten over it even tho they are grown, lol.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jan 10
Probably true. So I guess I should just do whatever I want and not worry about it!
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
16 Jan 10
Hang in there, Mom. One day it will be your grandchildren wh o will be embarrassed by your children's music.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Jan 10
I'm looking forward to it! :-)
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
16 Jan 10
Just having parents is embarrassing to kids. Gee what do they think? All the other kids don't have parents too? It must be only them with horrid embarrassing parents. At least if they must have parents, why can't they have hip and cool ones? The good news is someday they will be an embarrassing parent. LOL payback is grand.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
19 Jan 10
I have a feeling that telling my daughter that other kids have embarrassing parents too, will have the same impression as when I serve something she doesn't like and I use the "children are starving in..." line..!