OK, so my mom says i can start skating lessons when i get a Saturday job, fair enough. But when i go ice skating, she moans. I catch the bus there, but occasionally she takes me. I go once or twice a week and use my pocket money. She used to skate when she was my age. whats her problem. I love the sport and want to learn new skills and moves. But why does she moan when i go skating? She knows iam a good skater, or good enough to go. Iam 15, and its making me feel down and i cry my self to sleep. I try talking it over but she just moans even more and tells me to shut up.

Oh gosh, I hope your mom really isn't telling you to shut up when you try to talk to her - but *sigh* - some moms are like that, argh. Do try talking it over with her again - without attacking her in any way - and tell her you are hurt by her reaction to your skating. If she still isn't willing to talk, well, you can't force it out of her . . . maybe she will be willing to open up to you in time.

It could any one or few of a whole list of things (like what the previous person mentioned). No sense boggling your mind over what it could be . . . only your mom can tell you what's bothering her . . . she just isn't ready to tell you yet. Be strong and keep skating if you can. She may be moaning, but at least she's not telling you outright to stop skating, right? So continue on . . . you love it and you're good at it. Hopefully one day your mom will be more supportive of it. Maybe she actually is supportive but just isn't really showing it.

I have an elderly skater friend . . . and I knew he had a wife, but didn't know much about her as I never met her. It was ashame that it wasn't til after she passed away that I learned she was such a beautiful woman - and a long time show skater. Apparently she got in an accident that she could no longer skate and that sorrowed her deeply. So much that she wanted nothing to do with skating - not even to walk into a rink to visit or to meet any of us who did skate. She didn't mind that her husband still could skate and would go without her . . . but even he did not tell anyone about her. You just never know about people's pasts.

Good luck!

all these other answers are pretty long and seem to have said all the possible reasons why she might be moaning.

one suggestion-write her a letter instead of talking to her. she will read it, don't watch her and then jst leave it for her to talk to you or for her to get over it.

good luck xxooxx

Maybe she doesn't like to ice skate? that's one thing, but if she moans? Maybe something else is bothering her? I'm not too sure. I'm sorry...Maybe you should tlak this over with her. Well, at least, try...