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and I don’t condone the way Belle is being written as such a neglectful parent, but she does seem to be trying to make it up to Claire and proving to this kid that she loves and cares for her, so for Claire to speak to her the way she did today, especially yelling in her face that she was "whoring around with Philip" seemed a bit more than disrespectful to me. I hope Claire lives to regret those words. Sorry, but I was almost hoping that Belle’s motion toward a good slap would have hit its mark, but that’s just me. I don’t approve of children speaking to their parents that way, no matter how justified they feel they are. I’m sure there will be those who disagree with me, but I almost wanted to smack Claire myself today.
with you Patti. My daughter would never, ever speak to me that way – and she is 51! There doesn’t seem to be an overabundance of respect from teenagers now a days. Even my grandsons, in their 20’s, have great respect for me. I cringe when I see this happen.
I would never I a million years speak to my mom like that. She’s nearly 84 and I think she’d knock my teeth out if I spoke to her like that.
comes from the parents and their leniency in raising kids these days. And children are far too exposed/ involved in issues that should be reserved for adults only. And tv doesn’t help by showing kids as wisecrackers and parents as pathetic butt of jokes.
you hit the nail squarely on the head. I absolutely agree with you 200%.
As far as older children treating their parents with respect, I would expect that but teens really, for the most part, haven’t yet gotten to the point of understanding that. Unless, of course, they have been taught to do so.
but I don’t think that Belle is really trying to "Make it up" to Claire, she is trying to buy her forgiveness and there is a big difference. She spends no time at all with her daughter, none whatsover, and then plops this "apology" in the form of an indulgent, over the top trip to anywhere in the world Claire would like to go and spend money like crazy and I say good for Claire that she wants her mother and not things that her mother buys her. Not that I condone her terminology, although I do agree with her about what she has been doing with Philip because "whore" is entirely the word I would use to describe Belle’s behavior in Vegas. Maybe this is the behavior that got her marriage in trouble in the first place?
Belle doesn’t talk to her daughter she talks at her with this underlying anger that has been a part of her character since she came back to Salem and which, I hope, one day will be explained becuase I certainly do not like this hard woman that is Belle today.
and that’s why I said I don’t like the writing for Belle. She’s very hardened in her ways now, and I expect she’s that way because she blames Shawn for leaving her and filing for divorce, for which he had good cause. It’s just that she has tried, on several times, to keep Claire in her life. It’s a horrible sl for Belle, and she was even worse today with Shawn. This is not the Belle Brady I wanted to see return, and I hope the writers do something to bring her back to reality. My complaint was strictly against 16-year old Claire speaking to her mother that way, and I still think she deserved a slap for it. I remember how awful Sami talked to Marlena for so many years, and now Belle seems to be parroting her sister where Marlena is concerned as well. So, I guess, as the saying goes, we are all products of our environment at times. It wasn’t pretty when Sami was young the way she spoke to Marlena, but I also remember more than one good slap going across Sami’s face for it. "Whore" may have been the right word to use by an adult to describe Belle’s Vegas trip with Philip, but it should never come out of the mouth of her daughter. That’s all I was saying.
That Claire shouldn’t have used those exact words. I just think u were giving Belle too much credit LOL.
it does appear that she is willing to do anything to repair her relationship with Claire, even if it means foregoing any relationship with either Shawn or Philip. She was somewhat more determined today to make that happen, so I guess we’ll have to wait and see. But, I would have to say that buying a 16-year old her very own nightclub is not the way to do it.
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