
She embarrassed Greg by handing over her coat at school.
She constantly embarrasses Greg as shown in most of the books. She also spoils Greg’s brother Manny to death and almost never disciplines him. She does nothing to protect Greg from his older brother Rodrick, who always blackmails, deceives and poorly treats him. Speaking of being obsessed with being together as a family, she gets lots of bad information from a magazine called “Family Frolic”. In The Deep End, while they were riding in the RV, she locks Greg and Rodrick’s devices in a container and instead tells them to play an educational Bingo game. Susan, instead of treating his injured hand, decides to instead teach him how to spell “cat”. In The Long Haul, one time Greg and his family were on a trip to his Gramma’s house, and one of her cats scratches him. Another thing she’s obsessed with is making a trip somewhere educational:. She is overly obsessed with being together as a family, as shown in books such as The Long Haul.
Greg did not want to fill in for Rowley after this incident, yet Susan says that he’d love to go and forces him to fill in. In Rodrick Rules, Greg’s friend Rowley injures himself, and he was practising magic for a talent show with a first-grader named Scotty Douglas.
Susan is an overprotective and clueless mother who is very much against technology:. Why She's (Intentionally?) A Clueless and Obnoxious Mother 1 Why She's (Intentionally?) A Clueless and Obnoxious Mother.