I am finding parenting a teen pretty challenging ! My DD is 14 and can be a sweet lovely girl on the other hand she can be the total opposite. It is like living with two people she is so unpredictable. Her moods usually surround her social life . She is in a large social circle of about twenty girls most are lovely two dominate and can be really vile . They turn on them randomly and the others try to please them . DD is very anxious paranoid and withdrawn if its her turn to be outcast . So unhealthy and as much as i've tried to get her to cut these two girls out easier said than done i suppose. If everything's all lovely between them i have the opposite problem constant aggro about me being the worst mum ever "everyone else is allowed to" .They want to have constant meet ups in local parks till midnight .If it was a one off or rare it wouldn't be so bad but they are more or less daily so i have the same row daily!She slept at a friends whose parents let them stay out till midnight . Am i being unreasonable?! I want her to be happy but these meet ups make me feel very uneasy .Usually because of the drama that occurs at them! There seems to be no happy medium in our house.She is not good at asking she plans then announces as an example she ignored all my texts yesterday to let me know what her plans were for that day so im stuck in limbo then says "oh sorry i did reply it must have failed" .
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