She’s not spoilt, though she’d like to be, she is just ultra selfish and will do all she can to get away with anything, whilst caring not one jot for the needs, feelings or desires of anyone else.
She has flunked her exams due to lack of commitment (she’s not stupid, just lazy and behind) so is going in to her final year of school with the prospect of either failing completely or scraping through with grades that no half-decent university will look twice at.
She doesn’t lift a finger around the house unless nagged – so I nag all the time, as I am not her domestic servant. There is never any spontaneous help with anything.
She has stolen money and vouchers from me, and frequently flouts rules about not bringing cigarettes into the house (I have younger DC too).
She lies a lot. To me to try to get away with things, to her friends to show off.
She will only apologise for anything if it is pointed out to her that an apology is necessary, and even then only when she wants something.
It is exhausting being her mother, because I won’t be walked all over so I have to go on at her ALL the bloody time to do normal, reasonable things. And her behaviour is causing a lot of bad feeling in the family and upsetting younger DC.
I love her, of course, but at the moment I really don’t like her very much. I don't trust her at all.
What am I doing wrong?
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