Why Won't My Mother Grow Up? The Two-Year-Old Granny
Why Won't My Mother Grow Up? The Two-Year-Old Granny Stamping feet. Demanding attention. Furious about not getting their own way. If you swapped the nappy for a handbag, you'd never know the difference. Short version: Some parents don't mellow with age, they just get more brazen about the same behaviour they've always had. Real research tracking personality traits over time found grandiosity often fades with age, but entitlement and lack of empathy frequently stay exactly the same, or get worse. Toddlers grow out of tantrums. Some grannies, apparently, grow into theirs. Find it funny, or it'll drive you round the bend. You've spent your whole adult life waiting for the mellowing. The bit where age, wisdom, or just general tiredness finally softens the demanding, tantrum-prone version of your mother into someone reasonable. Here's the plot twist nobody warns you about: it might just not be coming, and there's actual research backing up why....