Woman Asks If She Is Wrong For Dressing Down Her Niece Who Called Her A ‘Karen’ At A Family Function

• By Malaika
• 4 months ago
• 4 minutes read

Teenagers go through many changes.

As teenagers navigate the turbulent waters of adolescence, they are confronted with physical, emotional, and social changes that can be overwhelming. From hormone fluctuations to peer pressure, the adolescent years are a time of tremendous growth and transformation. Understanding teenagers’ challenges and experiences can help shed light on the complexities of this life transition. However, just because it is a difficult time does not excuse their poor behaviour.

After all, they are usually on the verge of becoming adults, so learning about responsibility and consequences is critical. Just because children of that age may be overly dramatic does not mean they cannot be ‘dressed down’ when they are wrong. Especially when the ‘dressing down’ is done by a family member. After all, family is there to help and teach. At the end of the day, allowing ‘kids to be kids’ will prevent them from learning that their actions have consequences. At least OP’s niece learnt the lesson.

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Standing up for your kids is sometimes the only solution.

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Most parents don’t enjoy it when their kids are badmouthed by other people.

OP has a teenage daughter who has problems with her teacher.

The main reason behind this is that the teacher apparently ignores bullying.

The teacher wants to stay in the good graces of the popular kids, so she never does anything about bullying.

OP had to take it to the administration so that her child would stop getting bullied.

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Things didn’t end there, as the teacher in question seemed to have some sort of vendetta against OP’s daughter.

The teacher would always grade OP’s daughter very harshly, which was not consistent with other students’ grades.

OP had to take this to administration once again so that her daughter was treated fairly.

OP also shared all of this with her sister since they have a very close relationship.

This meant that her niece ‘Chloe’ also found everything purposely spreading the wrong information, making OP sound like Karen.

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Not only that, but Chloe was also saying rude things about OP’s daughter, which OP did not appreciate.

This was the limit for OP, so she called out Chloe for her behaviour and dressed her down privately.

OP had ignored Chloe’s behaviour before, but this was the breaking point for her, and Chloe did apologise.

However, OP’s sister didn’t appreciate her daughter being dressed down by OP at all.

Now, OP isn’t sure whether she did the right thing.

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I really feel bad for the OP’s daughter. I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with similar teachers before, and they never admit their mistakes. It appears that they are living through their students. It’s an incredibly toxic environment for any child to be in. In such cases, family members must band together to support the bullied child. However, in this case, the cousin was only making matters worse for OP’s daughter. I don’t believe what the OP did was wrong at all. However, it is clear that OP’s sister disagrees with her.

People in the comments were mostly on the OP’s side.

Teenagers can be overdramatic, but this is crossing the line.

Chloe isn’t a little kid either.

Even kids need to learn about consequences.

People will always find something to be angry about.

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What are your thoughts on the overall situation? I believe the OP did the right thing by standing up for her daughter. However, do you think she should have discussed Chloe’s behaviour with her sister rather than attempting to ‘dress down’ her niece? What would you have done if you were in the OP’s shoes? Comment below to let us know, and don’t forget to share this story with your friends so they can add their thoughts as well.