I have just about had it with dd1, but at the same time I am now sat here feeling guilty that she has gone to her last day feeling upset and like I am picking on her.
She is 10 (11 in nov), but has always acted older than her age, so at the mo she is more like a 13/14 yr old tbh.
We don't have the best of realtionships, never have and never really understood why,other that we wind each other up the wrong way, and she knows exactly which of my buttons to press to make me explode.
So, today was non uniform day. I made them all pick their clothes on Sunday night so that everyone knew what they were wearing and it would all run smoothly.
Dd1 gets up and decides she no longer wants to wear what she'd picked. Fine I tell her, pick something else, but make it quick.
She said she had nothing to wear, which is a complete pile of tosh. She had a brand new t'shirt hanging on her wardrobe door so I told he to wear that with her skinny jeans. She said she wasn't wearing it. I only brought the top last week, but since then she has twice refused to wear it, even though she reckons she likes it.
I check again, that she likes it, and told her i cannot afford to have clothes sitting in wardrobes that she won't wear. I said i'd take it back today if she wasn't sure she would ever wear it. She insists she does like it, but she has done this so many times before, and then we end up rowing because she won't wear the damn tings.
I had the ironing board up so offered to iron someting for her, but no she was having non of it, and at 8:20 she was still stood in her knickers, hair unbrushed with no clue what she was wearing. We leave the house at 8:25.
In the end I threw the keys at her and told her I was going, because I wasn't having the others be late because of her, and eventually she caught us up in jeans and a t'shirt (not the new one).
She reckons that I am picking on her and cannot see why she is now grounded as she did nothing wrong. I beg to differ.
I now can't decide wether to take the new top back or not. I really think that she isn't sure if she likes it or not, which is fine but as i said i can't afford to let her keep it if she won't wear it. I have to return some shorts to the same shop today, so shall I just take it back ??
I won't be swaping it for anything else though as she sems to hate anything i buy simply because i brought it.
ARGH, I have a headache already