SpiritedSister
Disciple of Prayer
I have a sixteen-year-old granddaughter who thinks she is smarter than me. When she was first born, her father, my son, joined the Army and was sent to Korea. When he returned, her mother decided that they had nothing in common. She divorced my son and moved to London in the UK with her two daughters, my granddaughters, when they were 3 and 7 in 1999 and returned to Detroit in 2009.
They moved into their other grandmother's house. My granddaughter came to live in her father's Army housing unit back in September, 2012 while he was deployed to Afghanistan. We had to get to know each other. She told me how her mother's adult relatives did not listen to what she had to say. I listened and tried so hard to listen to her.
We had a problem when she wanted to buy some casual/business shoes for an after-five event and I refused to buy them. She got very loud in the department store and told me how unfair I was. I told her I was not going to buy the shoes. She didn't speak to me for 24 hours. We sort of worked through enough for her to start talking to me. A second incident happened a month before my son returned from his deployment. My son returned from Afghanistan 12/26/2012 and was met by his two daughters. His oldest daughter came for the holidays but didn't know that he would be home before she returned to Detroit in time for her junior year of college.
A week ago my granddaughter got very mad at me because I gave her a book, "The Four Agreements." She decided I did it to put her down. She told me I was rude and offensive. When I tried to tell her why I gave her the book, she got very loud and told me I was interrupting her and she was finished. At one point I said I was finished talking and she said she wasn't and proceeded to get louder. I told her I was and got my keys and purse. I left and got in my car and drove away. I didn't return for almost 2 hours.
I am 69 years old and I am not used to a 16-year-old talking to me like that. I'm asking for prayers for her to learn that older people may know more than her.
They moved into their other grandmother's house. My granddaughter came to live in her father's Army housing unit back in September, 2012 while he was deployed to Afghanistan. We had to get to know each other. She told me how her mother's adult relatives did not listen to what she had to say. I listened and tried so hard to listen to her.
We had a problem when she wanted to buy some casual/business shoes for an after-five event and I refused to buy them. She got very loud in the department store and told me how unfair I was. I told her I was not going to buy the shoes. She didn't speak to me for 24 hours. We sort of worked through enough for her to start talking to me. A second incident happened a month before my son returned from his deployment. My son returned from Afghanistan 12/26/2012 and was met by his two daughters. His oldest daughter came for the holidays but didn't know that he would be home before she returned to Detroit in time for her junior year of college.
A week ago my granddaughter got very mad at me because I gave her a book, "The Four Agreements." She decided I did it to put her down. She told me I was rude and offensive. When I tried to tell her why I gave her the book, she got very loud and told me I was interrupting her and she was finished. At one point I said I was finished talking and she said she wasn't and proceeded to get louder. I told her I was and got my keys and purse. I left and got in my car and drove away. I didn't return for almost 2 hours.
I am 69 years old and I am not used to a 16-year-old talking to me like that. I'm asking for prayers for her to learn that older people may know more than her.
