One time my toddler had a full-on tantrum at Old Navy while my mom was visiting our house. After we dragged her out into the parking lot kicking and screaming for the sanity of the shoppers, my mom turned to me and said, “You’ve never had a tantrum.”
Now…she may know better than me, but I also wonder if I was a perfect angel 24/7 during those awful 2-3 years. In fact, I think my mother may have been suffering from a pretty major attack of granesia. When you think back to your childhood, your grandmother or grandfather has no recollection of how they raised you. Really teeth.
One mom, @allyglasgow, took to TikTok to share some of her favorite “granessia” moments from parenting, and they were so relatable.
“[My mother]said, ‘You were all potty trained in pairs. All four of you were girls.'” And I…I don’t feel like we were…I mean, maybe?”
While a Granesia moment may have happened, Allie went on to say that the next parenting suggestion her mother gave had deep Granesia veins.
“And then the other day she said something that really reinforced my thinking,” she continued. “She said, ‘One of the things you really have to instill in your kids is that once they wake up, you’re not supposed to talk until a certain time.’
Allie went on to explain that her children are now 4, 2, and 1, and she doesn’t think her mother did a good job of instilling the no-talking rule in her and her sisters.
“Maybe he’ll whisper,” said his mother.
In the (hilarious) comments, my parents had a good laugh about Granesia.
One poster wrote, “My mother has created a completely different childhood in her head (lol). She gets very angry when I call her out.”
“Sometimes I wonder if my parents have actually met their children,” another added.
“My mother says I was able to speak sentences by nine months old. No, I wasn’t. That can’t be true,” said another woman.
“My parents are pretty sure I was sleeping through the night at 3 weeks old and didn’t have to get up to feed or anything. So is it okay to let me starve???”
“My mom makes comments about my kids eating unhealthy food because they didn’t cook for me, as if I didn’t grow up eating cereal, ramen, frozen meals, etc. every day. What does that mean?”
“My parents swear I was walking at six months old. After having a child, they didn’t think it was physically possible. They still swear it happened.”
“My MIL has 4 boys and she tried to convince me that they don’t make much noise. Lol, okay “
“My mother once said, ‘Kids need routine and regularity,’ but we were homeschooled and only went to school when she wanted us to.”
“My mom said my sisters and I never snacked “
“My son has eczema, and my mom says her kids have never had eczema, but I’ve had eczema literally ever since I was born.”
“When I recently asked my mother at what age I stopped throwing tantrums, she claimed that the first and last time I had one was when I was two years old, the day Princess Diana died.”
Gramnesia: That seems like a universal problem. Perhaps parenting has been so traumatic that our brains have been replaced with fond memories of kids not fighting or throwing tantrums and all of them sleeping through the night.
