Dd in question very angry and oppositional - has been referred to CAMHS. Her latest thing is deliberately making herself late for school every day and stopping out afterwards without permission - she doesn't phone to say where she is and we don't have a clue. Last night she didn't come home until 6.55. I was on the verge of phoning the police.
She didn't have her phone - it's not working and on her current behaviour (we have had 4 months of regular battles about her refusing to hand the phone over at 10pm every night so she can get some sleep without being pinged in the early hours) I'm not sure she's going to be getting it back. Even when she does have it she doesn't answer if she knows I'm going to tell her to come home, or she uses it to try to harass me into allowing her to go to go to the houses of people I often don't know, phoning me a dozen times (literally) after I've said 'come home' to argue as to why she should be allowed to stay out.
How would you deal with the disappearing act after school? We've already phoned the police once this month - she got up at 5am after a row the previous evening and just took off. We got up at 6.30 and she wasn't in her bed. We ended up calling the police. Turned out she'd wandered around a bit before heading off to my mums. She missed school on that day. She also missed school on Monday this week - refused to go.
I can't talk to her at all. She hates me. Her whole raisin d'être at the moment is to hurt me and defy me.
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13 year old dd staying out after school - how would you deal with this?
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Shagmundfreud · 27/03/2013 06:31
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