A mom driving her daughter to her first day of high school had to deal with her teen’s hysterical anxiety ridden freak out, but she caught it all on tape.
Crystal Alexander, 40 of Mesquite, Texas, was driving her incoming freshman daughter J’ia Gladney to her first day of classes. But her teen was not having it.
‘I don’t want to go,’ the 14-year-old cheerleader says putting on her best fake cry. ‘Momma, don’t make me go. Go backwards! Go backwards! Why are you making me do this?’
J’ia Gladney, 14, did not want to attend her first day of school as a freshman at John Horn High School, and tries to dissuade her mother from dropping her off by fake crying
J’ia begs her mother, Crystal Alexander, 40 (right) to ‘Go backwards’ when she’s trying to drop her panicked daughter off
Alexander tells her theatrical daughter ‘Breath J’ia.’ To which her very upset daughter exclaims: ‘Why you making me do this!?’
Mom’s wise response: ‘Because you must continue on with life.’
The mother of four has now circled the block five times to drop her daughter off in what J’ia deems the most optimal spot possible at John Horn High School.
However, mom has about had it.
They see the door J’ia wants to go to but her mom tells her ‘I think it’s locked.’ To which she replies ‘Ahhhhhh nahhhhhh!!!’
Then J’ia says go to the front, but Alexander is done with her daughter’s antics and says ‘I will not!’
Alexander told ABC News she knew her daughter would calm down once she finally made it into the building.
J’ia’s little brother and sister also started their first day of classes. Undoubtedly mom had a hectic morning
‘Prior to leaving home, she was amped. She was excited,’ Alexander said. ‘But as we got closer to the school, she started to get panicky and overwhelmed.’
‘J’ia has always been a very theatrical child. I call her my drama child,’ Alexander added.
J’ia says she started growing anxious when they drove by her middle school. ‘That morning I was ready, but when we passed my old school I was like, ”Oh, this is real.”
‘It was a good day,’ J’ia said after all was said and done. ‘I enjoyed lunch and meeting my teachers.’
On their way home from her first big day, mom had to throw in a little I told you so: ‘See? I told you! Nothing to worry about.’