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i know celstia i know

i am a shadow of my former self

Viva if you find out please let me know!

So I've got a seven-going-on-twelve year old then? Gee thanks

(I get a lot of "Well I'm not going to do ANYTHING, EVER AGAIN" as the response to a telling off...grrr....)

If I hear "OH MY GWAAAAAAAD" from my nearly 10 year old she may get a one way ticket to boarding school.

DD wash your hands for tea "OH MY GWAAAAAAD"
DD brush your teeth "OH MY GWAAAAAAAAD"
etc
etc

You can borrow my 14 yr old if you like. He doesn't know anything.

'I HAVEN'T GOT ANY SHIRTS!'
'How can you not have shirts left when it's only Tuesday?'
'HOW SHOULD I KNOW?'
'What did you do with the clean ones?'
'I DON'T KNOW DO I?'
'Well you'll have to wear yesterday's [ick]. Where's that?'
'DON'T KNOW!'

[rummages in wash bin. Finds stack of folded, clean shirts, which clearly made its own way in there, as DS has no recollection of putting the clean pile back in the wash...]

'dd go and brush your teeth now while the boys are in the bathroom'
grunt and click from dd
'dd go now and do your teeth please'

i now leave the room out of concern for dd's personal safety

can anybody guess the end of this story?

I am hoping when they are adults they will be grateful for us torturing them with teeth brushing, showering and eating a balanced diet!

baskingseals in our house it would end up with someones toothbrush down the toilet, we dont do teeth brushing in groups in this house too dangerous!

ClainedByMe - when they are adults I'm going to go and stay with mine for extended periods of time and behave like a 12 year old

Great , my dd is 10 and just had lovely screaming match. Now feel like crap - I really hope this gets better.

flakjacket sadly dd has already made it very clear she is never moving out

Funny, I thought it got better as they got older. I thought that when DD was 12. Then 13, then 14, then 15, then 16, then 17..... Get the picture?

<<Leaves and and runs quick!>>

Another trait that we've noticed is that DD seems to think that by prefacing everything with "Sorry but..." she can get away with anything and that it makes its all conveniently OK

eg. "Sorry but I didn't hear you"...."Sorry but I forgot"...."Sorry I thought you said I could do it"....."Sorry I didn't realise" etc

<wails> I have 2 of the buggers.

A nine year old and an eleven year old who knows everything. The nine year old actually nearly does but the oldest is a pita. No responsibility.

So far he's lost

PE Kit - once.
Mobile - once.
Bus pass - Twice.
School book - once.

Oh got it worse today cheeky wee madam told him I need my space you must respect me roflmao when she was being asked about wrecking my expensive body lotion

yeah when you get your own house I would have replied

dd's classic this morning

'fucking shoes i can't find them'
'dd if you swear in front of me i will have to tell you off. please don't'
'i didn't say fucking i said flocking'

DS is learning on that front.
'Oh fuc...goodness sake' is a frequent one.

if only we didn't love them so damn much.....

I have a 10 year old ds. I feel all your pain.

I am in shock reading this as my ds is 5 and already feels he is much more informed than me and will argue anything like a small, passionate barrister. He even strides about he has just spent 15 mins slamming doors and screeching as he was "bored" and annoying his sister so I got fed up and sent him to his room. Cue meltdown with how horrible and unreasonable I am, how he hates living here and the stupid rules, etc etc. me and dd ( who is poorly) ignore him which drives him crazy with rage. I just say calmly stop all this, go in your room and calm down. Over and over. Or ignore him.

I am reading the pre teens threads like a woman alone watching horror movies

Oh Celia - I have an exact carboon copy of one of those at home - a boy. Will do nothing without an argument, knows absolutely fucking everything and more besides.

Husband asked this morning if I would come and visit him in prison if he murdered him.............

Oh yeah, the lost list since September

ties - 2
homework diary - 2

Answers please, on a postcard.

Great thread, very reassuring. I thought I was alone on an island of petulance and 'WHAT! GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD'

Can I just reassure you all my DD1 was like this at from being born 12, 13, 14 worse at 15 BUT now at 16 she is so much better most of the time .

Of course it doesn't help that DD2 is 15 her favourite saying seems to be 'where is my .......' as if I'd know.

DD3 is 13 and has many similar traits I'm sorry to say.

On the other hand DS at 17 is lovely and always has been

Over here in Canada, I have the same problem...10 going upstairs alone is a big issue (except when she needs something). Evening cuddles "until she falls asleep" are a near necessity. I have to remind her that mummy has a life, too, and that respect goes both ways.

Early hormone kick-in? She's developing very early & I'm sure her period is coming any day now.

I can usually disarm stroppiness with humour, but sometimes being tough works (though I feel badly about it...husband is the disciplinarian in the house, though I can and do get tough when I've had enough).

Let's hope it's a (short) phase, yeah?

hugs

Can I join the club?? My twin boys are 12 next week, and they know everything and DH and I are "stupid douchbags" who know nothing!!
I was talking with two other mums of twins in the same year (1set boy/girl, the other girl/girl) and they said they are in the same boat.
they get to this age and all turn into mini geniuses who know everything about life!