This is my first post and I need some good advice. I've read a few threads and can see that I need to continue communications, but this is difficult when it's a one-sided conversation. My DD was an early developer and hence got lots of attention from the boys at school, not good. She has also started smoking and smokes out of the bathroom window when life gets too much for her, or she gets into trouble with us. She is now bunking off school when it is just a study period, luckily not when it is a proper lesson.
Her temper is appalling, she throws chairs, hits her brother & sister and it is impossible to talk objectively with her. She is the middle child and I understand it's difficult to know her position in the family, but we have tried to address this.
Do we carry on threatening her with all sorts, at the moment she has no phone, no facebook, is grounded for a month, no internet (except for homework), no school trip. The only thing left is to threaten moving her from her school and therefore all her friends. But her friends are part of the problem surely?
Any advice would be really appreciated. Will be sitting round the table tonight to discuss, any pointers please? Thank.