‘Cara is tardy as a result of a condition known as Teenage-ism’: Mother shares hilarious note she wrote when her daughter, 14, was late for school

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A Northern California mother has inspired parents across the nation after writing a hilarious tardy note explaining that her daughter was suffering from 'teenage-ism'. 

Nicole Poppic, 34, was inspired to write the note after her 14-year-old daughter Cara overslept and spent the morning 'talking back to her' at their Clarksburg home. 

'To whom it may concern,' the note begins. 'Cara is tardy this morning as a result of a condition known as teenage-ism.' 

'Adolescents across our great nation are afflicted and there is no known cure.' 

Northern California mother Nicole Poppic wrote a hilarious tardy note for her 14-year-old daughter Cara, explaining that she was late because she was suffering from 'teenage-ism'

The note was an instant viral hit with parents on the social media site, who have shared it more than 32,000 times and told Poppic it was a great move 

Poppic (left) wrote the note after Cara (right) overslept and spent the morning 'talking back to her' at their Clarksburg home and also made her younger siblings late to school

'Symptoms are multitudinous,' it continues, 'but this particular morning she suffered from an inability to remove herself from bed, and also felt the need to talk back to her birth-giver.' 

'She seems to be recovering from her senses after watching her cell phone fly out the car window. Please tell me if there is another flare-up. Thank you.' 

Poppic then shared the note on Facebook, writing in the caption: 'This is what happens when you are tardy as a result of your own poor choices and you ask me for a note to excuse your tardiness.' 

The note was an instant hit with parents on the social media site, who have shared it more than 32,000 times. 

'As a teacher and a mom, well played, game-set match to you!' wrote commenter Greta Humphrey. 

'I love this, I need to keep this in mind for when my little one gets older,' wrote Jennifer Abreu. 'Taking notes!' 

Some parents were less fond of Poppic's note, saying it was condescending and harsh that the mother threw her daughter's phone out the window. 

When they finally got in the car, Poppic tried to explain to her daughter how her actions had also made her younger siblings, Alex and Sammi, (all pictured) late as well

But Poppic took to her blog to explain that fateful morning in more detail - and to ensure her readers that Cara's phone had survived. 

The mother-of-three and Army veteran explained that Cara had overslept the morning she wrote the note and was in a mood when she finally got out of bed. 

'Cara was talking back and arguing with me over how much time she had, what she was going to eat for breakfast, and pretty much anything else I said,' she wrote. 

'It was one of those lovely mornings that every mom with a teenager can relate to.' 

When they finally got in the car, Poppic tried to explain to her daughter how her actions had also made her younger siblings, Alex and Sammi, late as well. 

'You know Alex hates being late,' Poppic told her daughter, 'And Sammi has her first school picture today.' 

That's when Poppic heard the familiar sound of Panic! At the Disco, her daughter's favorite band and turned around to see Cara had her headphones in and was 'staring out the window, completely ignoring me'. 

'I reached over and took her phone off her lap, unplugged her headphones and threw her phone out the car window,' Poppic wrote. 

Poppic decided to take Alex and Sammi to school before Cara that day, so by the time they arrived at the high school it was required that she write her daughter a note for the attendance office. 

Poppic and her husband George (pictured) are bother Army veterans. She is a stay-at-home mother who is currently at school full-time to become a therapist 

When Cara read what her mother wrote, she refused to take it. So Poppic walked into the office with her daughter and turned it in. 

'The attendance clerk cracked a smile, but didn't say anything, she just gave Cara her tardy slip,' Poppic wrote. 

On the way home, Poppic retrieved Cara's phone from the front yard of her neighbor's yard, where it had landed safely in the grass. 

She then kept it for four days as 'Cara's consequences for her actions that morning'. 

'I don't want anyone under the false impression that Cara is a bad kid,' she wrote at the end of the post. 

'She is an honor roll student and an extremely talented piano player. I am very proud of her and I love being her mom. She was just having a bad morning.' 

Poppic explained that she was very close with Cara, who laughed about the note a couple days later, but that she felt it was important to teach her a lesson that day.

'I feel it is important for all of my children to realize that no matter what kind of mood a person is in, they are still responsible for their own actions,' she wrote. 

'And they are expected to be aware of how those actions affect other people.'