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My daughter is rebelling post divorce

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samesh1tdifferentday · 24/03/2018 04:59

It's getting harder by the day I have 4 dcs and have been separated 2 years now.
My exH has painted an awful picture of me to my eldest (14) she is really giving me a hard time☹️
Part of me accepts that I chose to split the family but I thought it for the best.
She is playing me and her dad off and as we have NIL communication I can't stop her he's even taking to knocking on her bedroom window now rather than at the front door.
I have decided to take her phone today not as punishment but as a " device free day " and plan to involve her around the house so that she isn't just holed up in her room. She only came back yesterday and I haven't seen her for 2 days and already she asked to go back to his. I feel like I'm losing her but we do keep arguing.
I have got a therapist who is advising me weekly in coping strategies but it's getting so much harder to parent.
Any advice welcome she's taking up so much of my time with negative attention seeking that my other 3 dcs are missing out on my time xConfused

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jaimelannistersgoldenhand · 24/03/2018 19:35

Do all of your children have the same Dad? Are they relatively close in age?

My ex and I have 3 kids (16,14,11) and despise ex's gf (who was ow) trying to discredit me, they kept each other grounded as to what was going on iykwim.

Have you ever spoken to your dd about why you initiated the split? It depends on why you split but by age 14 she probably has experience of friendships drifting if growing apart is the reason for your split.

Do you over compensate for the split and be too positive about their Dad? My ex apparently compliments me a lot and the kids are Hmm because he wasn't like that pre-split. They find it fake and creepy. I only mention him if an anecdote involves him or I ask a question like what time he's picking them up.

Is her Dad in a new relationship? Like my point about drifting friendships, you can say it's good that her Dad is happy with X.

I'm not sure about taking her phone away. It's personally something that I struggle with when it comes to teen parenting. Maybe my expectations are too low but I've never gone longer than a few hours of device free time with them.

The knocking on the window thing seems weird. A normal parent would text teen and teen would go out once parent arrived.

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