My mom is so super embarrassing?

1) "First, she has no conversation filter....."

What you've written doesn't sound odd at all. People normally continue conversations in parking lots...Is it the tone of her voice that bothers you? Honestly, what you've written doesn't sound embarassing at all. Yesterday in a parking lot I was walking with my 3 year old son, there was this man talking at the top of his voice..."Fu..k her, she is such a Bit.h , She's a Bit.h" He was saying this loudly in front of his children and my child. If your mother is speaking in this manner then yeah that is embarassing. But, if she is just continuing on with a conversation, then that is normal behavior.

2)"And whenever we're talking to anyone she does the weirdest stuff..."

Ok, I as a mother, am guilty of doing something similar to this too, I don't hit my son's head. But, I just love to play with his hair even in public. He's much younger than you though, he's 3. But, I still love touching his head, it's a habit.

3) "Also, her head-hitting thing continues..."

This sounds like just a stereotypical adolescent complaint about your parent. It is not even close to being embarrassing. She is trying to usher you out the door.

4) "And she jokes way too much, everywhere"

So you are a teenager who thinks that her mother is not funny...Guess what people joke, some do it more frequently than others. It's part of a person's personality...Some people are more funny than others, but to actually tell someone that they shouldn't joke, and to go out of your way to reprimand your mother for joking is very childish of you.

5) "In church, when we say the eucharistic prayer"

There is nothing abnormal about what you've written about your mom's behavior during consecration either. I'm Catholic too, and during the time of consecration I'm deep in prayer offering prayers up to God. Maybe she is doing the same thing. With this point, I think you should let it go. You have no idea what is going on in your mother's mind at the time of consecration. Maybe she is deep in prayer. And believe it or not people are not watching your mother during the Eucharistic consecration, they are paying attention to the altar. Stop nitpicking at what your mother is doing and pay attention to what is happening on the altar...God is being made present in the Eucharist.

6) "Also in church, when we have announcements at the end of the mass..."

We have people who do the exact same thing at my church...I can top your (non)embarassing story off with an actual embarrassing story that my son did to me during mass...

At the back of our church next to our baptismal font we have a very old and very large church steeple bell that is suspended on a pedestal close to the ground. One time during mass, right before communion was being distributed I was standing in the back of the church holding my son in my arms when all of a sudden he became very wiggly and demanded to get down. I put him down when he had immediately made an olympic sprint to that old steeple bell and he gave it a good ring. It wasn't a little "ding dong" ring either. It was huge ring that sounded like "BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG." The sound of that bell filled the entire church and probably deafened a few of the elderly.

That was embarrassing to me. But what you've written about your mother's behavior, is quirky...But, not something to be embarrassed over. I see people do the same thing at my church.

7) "The problem is, whenever I tell her not to do something"

This comment that you made really rubbed me the wrong way. She is your parent, you are her child.

You should not be reprimanding your mother...that is not your place. There is nothing overtly embarrassing that your mother is doing to you. Honor your father and mother is a commandment not a suggestion. Be respectful to your mother.

8) "PS: She also talks about stuff she doesn't know anything about, and asks the stupidest questions."

This is part of living among humans...sometimes we ask stupid questions and say stupid things. Your mother sounds quirky but, to call her behavior embarrassing, I'm not buying it.

You're too worried about what other people think. She seems like a child at heart, which is not always a bad thing! Someday, you will look back on these memories and smile. Cherish the time you have with her instead of worrying about what other people think of her.

Umm, some day you will be embarrassing your children.

Tell your Mother that your going to get a crash helmet or football helmet so she wont keep hitting you on the head. LOL ....

It is true that at your age parents usually do embarrass their children.

Sometimes we embarrass our children on purpose just for chuckles.

; - )

LOL .........

Just continue talking with (not to) your Mother.

Everything will be fine.

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Sorry you are going through this. It sounds like your mother has some behavioral issues that need to be addressed by a professional. I suggest you either talk with your dad and tell him how you feel or approach your pastor and ask him for help.

You definitely need an adult to assist you with this. The sooner the better.