DD11 is no doubt starting to get a bit hormonal and has recently started secondary school so I've been trying to find the balance between letting a bit of snarkiness go and not letting her think that she can speak to us the way she has been.
I will admit that I have been a little snappy with her recently too. Toddler who still doesn't sleep, puppy, new job working full time etc means I am tired and tense and probably expecting a bit too much of her.
She doesn't know, and I'm not sure if I should tell her or not, that I can see all her Google searches on my Google. I don't want to invade her privacy but it's good to know what she's thinking when she goes quiet on me.
I was a bit gutted to see that over the weekend just after I'd pulled her up on the way she'd been speaking to us and her hideous mess of a room (that I spent hours tidying over the summer) that she'd been searching "why does my mum hate me?"
I've lost a bit of confidence in how to parent her since then. Obviously I don't hate her, I love the bones off her, and I tell her this regularly! But sometimes I do need to bring her back into line. Just wondered if anyone had found the balance 😕