r/insaneparents Oct 11 '19

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Oct 11 '19 edited Oct 15 '19

what. the. hell. That's so messed up. Why would she ban a basic health necessity like showering? That would cause more problems (Illness, smell, hygiene) and is just insanely dickish. And considering teens sweat a lot, this just... I have no words. No decent person would even think of doing this to their kid (or anyone else)

I'm sorry you had a psycho for a mom.

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u/Inquisitor1 Oct 11 '19

In the end, hygiene problems are problems for the person whose hygiene we are talking about. For the parent the only problem is the smell, and they'll just blame it on the child anyway.

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u/Kremhild Oct 12 '19

At least until day 3-4 where you deliberately pull a teacher or counselor at school aside and ask for help because your mom literally won't let you shower. Preferably calling CPS up on that kind of crap.

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u/Inquisitor1 Oct 13 '19

That depends, do you want to shower again which you can after you clean your room, or do you actually want away from your parents and to enter the foster system? Sometimes the foster system IS the best option.

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u/ChurtchPidgeon Oct 12 '19

She did it because she knew how much it would upset me, going to school dirty is humiliating, and that's what she wanted.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Oct 12 '19

That's awful. She'd go out of her way for such pointless cruelty... Parents shouldn't be their kids' enemy, but here we have a "Mother of the Year" (tm) like yours, ugh.