I’ve seen a big change in my DDs attitude over the last year. She is a lovely, kind and helpful girl but I can see the mood swings of her teenage years starting to rear their heads a bit.
Just looking for general advice from anyone who has been through the preteen stage really because I don’t want to do the wrong thing. My mum and I spent from about 10-19 constantly fighting and screaming at each other and I just don’t want that for us. It feels like it would already be so each to lose the rag with her and shout.
Main issue at the moment is surliness when she doesn’t like what I’m saying to her. Her tone when she answers me sometimes is really rude. She’s gone from being really helpful to not doing as she is asked.
I’ve never had any issues with her at all and I don’t want to make any mistakes here. After a bit of bad attitude today I sent her up to her room because that’s the only thing I could think to do. Was that the right thing to do?
I don’t want to alienate her and ruin our relationship forever but I also don’t want to go through what I went through as a teen.
Thank you.
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Iwanttogetthisright · 09/11/2020 19:47
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