Mom faces backlash after rejecting her teen daughter’s ‘weird’ job choice: ‘Let her make her own choices’

A mom doesn’t approve of her daughter’s potential first job. 

She went on Reddit’s “Am I the A******? (AITA)” forum for help. Her 16-year-old daughter wants to be a funeral director when she is older. So the teen asked the mom for permission to apply for an internship at a local funeral home. However, the mom feels the job is inappropriate. 

“I have a 16-year-old daughter,” the mom explained. “For a few months, she’s said she wanted to be a funeral director when she’s an adult, but I figured it was a phase. Yesterday, she came home and said that one of her friends got a job at a funeral home and that they had an open job for an internship that wasn’t a ‘skilled’ position. [It] could be filled by a high schooler, and she asked if she could apply. I told her I’d think about it.

“I don’t think it’s an appropriate first job, and I don’t want her working and doing that kind of thing; she’s only a kid. I told her I thought it would be better for her to work somewhere else, and she got very upset, saying that I always dismissed her interests and that she should be able to do what she is interested in.”

When the mother didn’t like the idea, the 16-year-old sought permission from her father. 

“I told her it was not a good first job and that I have friends that could help her get a job, but she said she wasn’t interested,” the mom wrote. “She’s been pissed at me ever since and went to her dad’s house and is saying that she won’t come back unless I let her do it because he will.

“I just don’t think it’s a good idea, and I don’t want her doing it. It’s not a typical first job and may look weird on resumes and college applications. She and her father both think I’m being a jerk and say I have an ‘outdated’ way of thinking.”

Redditors thought the mom was being judgmental. 

“Let her make her own choices,” a person said. 

“Let your kid live her life and trust that you’ve prepared her sufficiently to face the world,” another wrote. 

“Let her actually see the work and then decide FOR HERSELF if she still loves it,” someone added. 

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