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Is this normal behaviour for a pre-teen?

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ImASecretTwigletNibbler · 08/01/2014 12:42

DD is coming up to 11yo and is driving me BATTY by not remembering simple little things which I ask her to do over and over. I ask her literally every single day not to leave her dirty clothes on the bedroom floor, to turn her bedroom light off when she leaves the room, that sort of thing but she NEVER does. I've tried everything I can think of to stop it, to no avail. I've talked to her about it, explaining why it's a problem, and each time she swears she'll do it but it's as if she is physically unable to remember. Obviously I wouldn't necessarily expect her to remember one-off things but when she changes her pants each morning, surely it should come into her head when she chucks them on the floor hang on, Mum tells me about this every single day?! Are other kids this age like that? AIBU to expect her to remember such things?

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shuma68 · 16/01/2014 12:29

I used to be the same! there would be a small clear path from my door to the bed then stepping stones then when i couldn't get to my bed i told myself that it was time to tidy up! Maybe an incentive would help? a treat or sleep over? Having similar problem with husband putting toilet seat down! have written under seat in nail polish to put the seat down and we are starting a fine system of 10p when he fails to comply! its working so far!

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