It's been a long time since I've sought advice but I wonder if anyone has any words of wisdom
I am divorced and our daughter goes, reasonably half the time between mine and her Dad's house. As he works shifts there is no regular routine.
Daughter has an ipad which Exh girlfriend brought her back from Hong Kong. Last week I realised that daughter was using ipad after going to bed (10pm). I spoke with exH and was told that he insisted that she left ipad downstairs when going to bed.
I attempted to start this routine in my house and it was a disaster. Daugther barricaded herself in her bedroom with ipad and refused to come out. I forced my way into her room and wrenched ipad from her. She then proceeded to hit, kick and throw things at me. She phoned her Dad and told him that I'd hit her and that she was going to call the police.
I hid ipad and waited calmly in my bedroom for the police to come but she didn't phone them. The next day she got ready for school and then phoned me to apologise. She also phoned her Dad saying that she wanted to report me to the police for hitting her.
Exh brought her round to my house over the weekend and she refused to speak to me or countenance coming back to my house implying that she was scared of me!
She has since realised that if she doesn't see me that she will miss a family party as I won't take her. Her texts today have been lovely as normal and looking forwad to seeing me and tellng me how much she loves me.
It's a disaster! What do I do? Ignore and get on with life? Talk to her? Don't take her to party? I know I'm being held to ransom. Whenver I discipline her she will threaten to call the police!
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wirral · 30/09/2012 22:06
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