It’s essential to teach children important life skills like time management skills, but sometimes children don’t like learning these life lessons.

This mom shares a story about her daughter who is always late for everything. She decided to teach her a lesson, and now her daughter’s mad at her.

Let’s read all the details.

AITA for refusing to take my teen driving

Simple argument between me (56f) and my daughter (17f).

My daughter has her learner’s permit. She wants me to take her to practice driving.

I agreed. But I warned her very clearly upfront… be ready to walk out the door when I get home, because if I walk in the house and sit down? We are not going.

The daughter has always been like this!

She has an incredibly bad habit of being late/making me wait. She is on the spectrum. She struggles with time management.

I refuse to let her use that as an excuse.

I try to teach her ways to get around it. Start getting ready earlier, set alarms, etc. I even help her with reminders.

The one thing I will not do is enable her. She needs to learn to respect other people’s time instead of saying “oh well, it’s my ASD.”

Mom was already exhausted from work!

Currently: I worked an especially hard day yesterday.

I was still willing to take her driving when I got home. I texted her I was omw.

She asked how long?

45 minutes. I texted her when I was about 5 minutes away. Be ready.

Here is where it went to hell.

She wasn’t ready on time.

Apparently, she decided to get on the treadmill for 45 minutes. Lost track of time. She wanted to shower before we went.

I told her no. Be ready when I get there.

She got in the shower anyway.

I walked in while she was still showering. Which means I’d have to sit and wait while she finished showering and got dressed.

She stuck to her word.

I refused.

Once I sat down… I wasn’t getting back up. I was crystal clear about that.

She now thinks I’m an unreasonable person.

I’m not a complete hard one. I understand her challenges.

If it was a one-off thing? I’d be more lenient. But this is chronic. And disrespectful of others.

Was I an TA for not taking her anyway?

Her daughter needs to learn that when mom says something she really, really means it!

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

That’s right! This mother communicated the conditions from the beginning.

Exactly! Decisions have consequences.

The mother made her point very clear.

This user knows the mother isn’t at fault but still urges her to be easy on the daughter.

This user shares that having ADHD is hard but doesn’t mean everyone has to suffer.

Her daughter should’ve been ready on time.

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