She will be 13 in a few weeks time and her attitude is awful.
I know she's a ball of hormones & I have to factor that in, but her whole demeanour towards me just scares me.
When she chooses to be lovely, she can be. But most of the time she fires sarcastic comment after another at me. In fact I have just came to bed as I can't stand being in the same room as her right now.
There isn't one incident that has pushed me to post - I just can't deal with her demands anymore. I'll list some examples below.
If the four of us (ds, dd, DH & I) are all in a room, she spends time correcting us, our pronunciation of words, if what we've said was right or wrong, she screams if ds farts (he's 10!) or if DH kisses me on the cheek. She actually screeches, balls her fists up and demands we stop (we generally do as she has a screaming shit fit that makes DS cry)
Yesterday he was eating rice for lunch, the noise of his fork scraping the plate caused a full on tantrum from her, resulting in DS using a picnic fork to finish his lunch!!!!
She sat & tsked & sighed the whole time we were talking earlier then said God this family is so stupid. (Dh is a foreman at work, I have a degree & hold down a good job, we're not stupid).
I guess I'm wondering if this is 'normal' for her to scream at noises she doesn't like, it's almost as if the whole family are tiptoeing around her all the time.
I heard DH saying to her after I left the room "can you work on your attitude, it's not pleasant" and she screeched "omg daddy, there's nothing wrong with my attitude, you are all horrible to me!!"
I believe she thinks she so much better than all of us. Even her cousins who used to be friendly with her haven't bothered much with her recently.
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At end of tether with dd (13)
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Evabeaversprotege · 26/10/2014 20:45
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