I am starting to feel like our relationship is beyond repair. Nothing I do or say makes any difference. Just as things start to improve she starts playing up again.
She comes home whenever she wants and if I tell her she can't go out she just leaves. I have to drop her to school every day or she turns up late and possibly not at all. She won't engage in school and has been suspended 7 times in 18 months. She does nothing at home to help. She has been smoking for over a year.
Nothing I do makes any difference to her behaviour. I turn her internet off as a consequence but that doesn't seem to make any difference. She just goes to a friends house and uses theirs.
The school have talked about prosecution because her attendance is really low, partly from refusing to get up but mostly from walking out of school in the middle of the day.
I am so stressed with it all. I am a single parent, she doesn't see her dad and whenever I have mentioned anything to him he just suggests contacting social services. My parents live over 100 miles away and I don't feel I can talk to them as they worry, no other family I am in contact with. I have two other DC who are younger, I am at university and have a bank job.
I feel like I am only just clinging on and at any minute everything is going to fall down around me.
Not really sure why I am posting. Just needed to get it off my chest.