A Controlling Mom
In certain situations, a parent’s rules and regulations end up smothering a child instead of protecting them. This storyteller works as a nanny for wealthy New York families, and one of her clients has a 13-year-old girl that she watches pretty regularly. One evening, the girl had a sleepover with a few of her friends.
One of the girls at the sleepover came equipped with a booklet of things she wasn’t allowed to do or eat. When our storyteller asked her about it, she said that her mom prohibited her from eating certain things to avoid getting “fat.” The babysitter let this poor girl live a little and let her eat all the same snacks as her friends. The toxic mom wasn’t too happy about it, but that girl probably had the best night of her life.