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to really not want to talk to my 12 year old sister until she gets some manners?

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Brunettelady · 01/01/2010 19:43

My (half) sister is 12. Her mother has lovely manners etc but has definatley not passed this on to her children.

There have been various things with my half sister to the point where I complained to my dad about the way she talks to adults.

She accidently deleted me off Facebook the other day and hass requested me as a friend again. I don't know why she bothered as thats where a lot of the previous problems came from and I won't talk to her on there anymore. Anyway she sent me a message asking me to accept her, and I jokingly replied that I didn't feel like it (I put lol to make it clear I was joking), she then replied with something else, can't remember exactly what, which I sent another jokey reply. She came back with "why are you being so sad and pathetic?" (not joking) and I said that was not the way to get me to accept her request. She then replied with "sorry brunette, I'm not licking your bum". I got really pissed off then and told her that I wouldn't be spoken to like that, I wasn't accepting her request, end of (as she has a habit of having to have the last word all of the time, which my nan taught me that that is not acceptable).

I hate rudeness like this as I would never dream of saying the stuff she says to me to any other adult now, let alone when I was 12. So AIBU to not want to talk to her?

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notanumber · 01/01/2010 20:20

Look, don't bother with her then. She's not your responsibility at the end of the day.

If you hate her manners and "...really don't see why [you] should carry on trying to teach her when she is getting worse and worse with her behaviour..." then just wash your hands of her, you're not her mother.

But don't then start whinging that you don't hve a decent relationship with her and she's a right little tearaway a few years down the line.

She's your sister. If you want a relationship with her you've got a shoulder a bit of the hard work to gain the benefits.

thelunar66 · 01/01/2010 20:22

Do you ever talk to her? Do you live near to her?

Morloth · 01/01/2010 20:23

Do you want to be her Mum or her Sister?

My neices are gobby little shites but unless they are actually rude to me, I don't view it as my problem, would feel the same way about a much younger sister.

She has parents, you are not one of them.

The FB exchange makes you come out worse than her because she is 12 and you should know better.

Brunettelady · 01/01/2010 20:29

I only pull her up on things when she actually says them to me. I don't bother with the way she speaks to her mum cause that is nothing to do with me and she knows that she can get away with it at home.

Lunar, she does live very near me, we moved here last year. I told her loads of times that she could come up whenever she wanted but she never did. I used to look after her in the school holidays and stuff when she was younger, help take her and her friends out on her birthdays and now shes says I've never done anything for her which annoyed me a bit.

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Morloth · 01/01/2010 20:34

So you have two options. You either continue to tell her off when she is rude to you or you discontinue all contact with her.

Don't get drawn into ridiculous arguments with a kid.

Brunettelady · 01/01/2010 20:35

Yeah I know Morloth . I just get so wound up by rudeness, it really is one of my pet hates.

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YouSaidWHAT · 02/01/2010 13:57

err, didnt you start it? why not just accept her or say your not going to and ignore, why make it into a silly little game. your own fault imo.

pigletmania · 02/01/2010 15:29

Does sound really petty, sounds like two kids arguing tbh. I would have accepted whats so difficult about that and whats the harm in that

Pikelit · 02/01/2010 15:35

There's far too much "lol'ing". What it actually means is "I am going to be breathtakingly rude and then put the tin lid on things by being fucking patronising". Or LOL, for short.

But you don't teach anyone manners on Facebook.

WhatNoLunchBreak · 02/01/2010 16:02

Nah, Brunette. The insanity of your post is that a) you are expecting a 12 year old to see reason, and b) you are completely blind to your own behaviour in this, which seems to match hers. This is the kind of argument I'd expect to see amongst her peers. Rise above it like the older, more mature sister that you profess to be.

YABU.

Missus84 · 02/01/2010 16:07

You were rude to her on facebook to start with, so you can't really complain about her reacting.

Adding "lol" doesn't make it not rude - or has no one taught you any manners?

Missus84 · 02/01/2010 16:08

I mean - or has no one taught you any manners? LOL

WhatFuckingYearIsItAnyway · 02/01/2010 16:56

how silly

duchesse · 02/01/2010 17:01

Dear God she is 12! And you are meant to be the adult here. YABmonumentallyU.

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