All parents know how to prepare their children for their teenage years, but no parent is perfect really Prepare your children for their teenage years. But Canadian influencer Sheridan Ingalls got some insight directly from her daughter Kaia, who very thoughtfully listed on Instagram exactly what only an eldest daughter can do What you see.
The video begins with the two of them sitting in a car eating. “So when I got older, when I was 16 or like 12, I started getting rude, and I would be rude for two years,” Kaia explained very calmly to her mother.
A strong start. Then again, it’s really impeccable first-child street cred here. Very dignified. Very attentive. What we like is that there’s not just a timeline, but a time frame in which she expects hostilities to begin. But there’s more, and it gets cuter.
“So remember, I’m actually being rude so that I can be like all the other teenagers and I still love you but I’ll feel mean on the outside but not on the inside.”
“you [will] Do you still love me no matter what? Ingalls asked and Kaia nodded. “Got it. I’m going to remember this. I’m going to get this out when you’re 16, girl!”
Ingalls, of course, took it all in good spirits, writing in the video: “This is a genuine look of concern for me… It’s okay girl, your mom knows exactly what she was like all those years, I promise not Will take it personally.
Reviewers were equally drawn to Kaia’s forward thinking and reassurance.
“The handling of teenage angst is very thoughtful,” one reviewer wrote.
“Only 2 years? How nice,” another mused. “You are one lucky parent.”
“Puberty is best started at 12 or 16,” a third joked. “This girl is on a strict two-year plan.”
The “done that” parents in the comments recall fondly (and not so fondly) their children’s adolescent experiences.
“On the eve of my son’s 13th birthday, he went to bed crying because he didn’t want to be a teenager, because he still wanted to ‘love hanging out with you guys!’” @sarahgwenart recalled.
“Fair warning to all other girl moms out there,” @lissaanne4 declared. “The ride started at 12 o’clock and lasted two years and then it got better. Those hormones were something else!
Commenter @roxanne10802 is even more encouraging.
“Please tell lovely Kaia, my own baby girl (who is now 26, married, and now in the car with me visiting my own mother) that as a 12 or 16 year old, never “We hit a few bumps, but they were more like speed bumps, and they were very rare. We never had an argument, a lot of yelling from either side, and any tears or hurt feelings disappeared quickly. I think you’ll all do great.
Honestly, if Kaia is so good at expressing her feelings, we think she’ll be handling puberty as well as anyone could hope. If not, well, Ingels will always have this video to look back on!
