Did you have trouble getting your mother's attention when you were a child?

Dallas, Texas
July 23, 2017 10:06pm CST
I often wanted to say something to my mom but it seemed she ignored me a lot. When the grownups got together they wanted to talk to each other and I couldn't get a word in edge wise but I was persistent. I used to tap my mother's shoulder to try and get her attention but that didn't always work. Did you, as a young child, ever have trouble getting your father or mother to pay attention when you had something to say?
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@vandana7 (98520)
• India
24 Jul 17
My mom was not around much ..I lost her when I was five and a half. And so I was in hostels. Dad never visited me for six months at a stretch. Pretty lonely, eh? You get habituated to that stuff. As grown up, I did latch on "emotionally" to dad because he happened to be my only family. A bit of financial dependence was there for a while. So gratefulness played a role too in this bonding. But yes, dad never understood, always brushed aside my feelings and advice and wishes with a laugh, and it has been quite a frustrating journey to say the least. There is recent transformation in him, realization perhaps that I made sense all along. Whatever be the reason, dad after 77 is different from dad I knew earlier. He will soon be 83.
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
24 Jul 17
Have you pointed this out to him? Maybe it's not too late for him to admit that he behaved badly towards you when you were a child.
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@vandana7 (98520)
• India
25 Jul 17
@MALUSE .. He has realized it, and often apologizes. I guess we both deserve to put past behind and have some moments of peace together. What is the point grumbling, and making me miserable? I would be making present also bad, isn't it?
@jstory07 (133739)
• Roseburg, Oregon
24 Jul 17
I got lots of attention once my Mom got home from working.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
24 Jul 17
My Mom stayed home and I got plenty of attention.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Jul 17
it w as with me m father as he woudd s cowl morfr own r yelnot ow He I figured ove the years he had some sort of mental issue
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@akp100 (13640)
• India
24 Jul 17
I guess I am quite lucky in this case, as my mother always paid good attention on me during childhood. Even now she cares of with really well.
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@LadyDuck (454979)
• Switzerland
24 Jul 17
I always got attention from my father, sometimes my mother ignored me, but I never tried to get attention if they were discussing with other adults, unless it was really important or urgent.
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24 Jul 17
Hard to say I was quite a shy one and preferred my own corner never really sought my parents out for that.sml weird I know.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
24 Jul 17
I was the baby in the family and had no trouble getting my family's attention.
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