Just found myself giving my daughter the same look my parents gave me when I was an embarrassment. And it felt great.

My daughter is going through a hard time. Middle school, with a medical condition that makes school harder for her. She's not great socially, and even if she was, the kids at her school are shits. <br><br>She got sent home from school today. She refused to do her work and when the resource teacher tried to talk to her about it, she called her a bitch. Now we're going to have to go in tomorrow for a disciplinary meeting.<br><br>This isn't the first time she's been sent home, and frankly I'm just over it. I want my kid to be successful. I want to be able to trust her to make good decisions. I want to be able to go to work without getting calls from the school. And today, after weeks of meetings and emails and detentions and pleading with her to be fucking better and getting no fucking response, I was angry.<br><br>So I looked at her, and I gave her the same look my dad used to give me. The look that said, "I don't know what to do with you right now. You're embarrassing me and you're making a fool of yourself. Grow the fuck up." <br><br>She looked at me and said, "What?" <br><br>And I said, "You know what. You're acting like an asshole. You're embarrassing yourself and you're embarrassing me. Stop it." <br><br>And yeah, I know that wasn't the most loving thing to say. But she needs to grow up. And I need to stop babying her.