Anyone who has parented a teenager (or been a teenager, for that matter) will understand that getting them up in the morning can be somewhat challenging.
But when you have to get to school on time, there isn't much point in trying to fight getting up. Or so parents around the globe assume.
So when 14-year-old Cara Poppic delayed her entire family because she couldn't get out of bed her frustrated mum wanted to give the teen a stern talking to. However, being a teen, Cara wasn't ready to listen.
"I started doing the 'mom' thing," Poppic told TODAY Parents.
"My lecture went something along the lines of, 'You need to start thinking about other people, Cara. You are not the only person in this family, and you made your brother and sister late, too."
But when Poppic heard Cara's favourite band Panic! at the Disco playing in the front seat she realised that the teen wasn't paying attention to the lecture.
"That is when I saw that Cara had put in her headphones and was staring out her window, completely ignoring me," she said. "I reached over and took her phone off her lap, unplugged her headphones, and threw her phone out the car window," recalls Poppic.
Not satisfied with chucking Cara's phone, she then further delayed Cara by dropping her younger siblings off first. She then proceeded to write the mother of all late notes for Cara.
"Cara is tardy this morning as a result of a condition known as 'teenage-ism,'" she wrote.
"Adolescents across our great nation are afflicted, and there is no known cure."
The 34-year-old mother also listed symptoms such as "an inability to remove herself from her bed" and "talking back to her birth-giver."
Poppic walked the note into the attendance office with Cara and handed it to the clerk herself. "The attendance clerk cracked a smile," she said.
She later posted a photo of the epic note on Facebook aiming to amuse her friends and other parents. But the post got more than a few laughs and has since been shared 32 thousand times as of Tuesday.
Of course, while Cara was definitely in her mother's bad books that morning, Poppic says that she is a good kid. "Parenting a teen is both challenging and rewarding," she said. "Watching Cara grow and change brings great joy to my life, but with that growth, there have been growing pains."
And just to show that she isn't a terrible mother, Poppic later retrieved Cara's phone from the neighbour's garden. Just in time for the teen to see her mothers Facebook post go viral.
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