Over the last 6 months my 12 year old (almost 13) has had a complete personality change!She has gone from a sweet polite little girl to a complete nightmare child!
Her father and I seperated 4 years ago, then moved to a new area 2 years ago and she struggled settling in at first. She finally got very friendly with a group of girls and I was really pleased that she seemed to be growing in confidence.
Over the last few months she started coming home later than she was supposed to, half and hour increasing to a couple of hours. I grounded her, took her phone etc but the problems are becoming worse.
I found out that she has truanted from school to meet with a boy she met on the internet, she also got a bus accross town this weekend when she was supposed to be at a friends house to meet a 15 year old boy she is apparently now in love with! She ran away from home and I drove round until 9 o'clock at night when I finally found her in a park.
She seems completely oblivious to the dangers she is in meeting people off the internet and being out alone. I have grounded her, taken her laptop and phone, had her put on report at school for truancy and tonight she still came home 2 1/2 hours late from school!
I am at my wits end with worry at the danger she is putting herself in but no matter how many times I have tried to explain she always replies with "I can make my own decisions" and "you are so over-protective"!
Any advice would be very very gratefully received.