DD2 will be 13 in two weeks time. Reasonably normal, well-adjusted, doesnt smoke/drink/take drugs/have sex etc etc etc, behaves well at school and at home, school marks are ok, lots of nice friends, so all should be fine yes?
BUT... she is so bloody vague and airy-fairy, it is driving us insane!! For example:
- got her a phone top-up last week; happened to ask her yesterday if she had her phone as was Orange Weds and we went to the cinema. "oh yeah" she says "the top-up didnt work and I forgot to tell you". So she has not had a working phone for a week; has lost the top-up slip so that's £10 down the drain
- she has 4 rabbits. every night she has to get them in from their runs and return them to the hutches with food/water etc. EVERY night she has to be reminded 3 or 4 times to do it before it gets too dark and then when she comes in has to be reminded whether she has filled up water/given enough hay etc
We can tell her something - about something we might do at the weekend or something - and 10 minutes later it'll be 'oh I forgot that' or that she never knew something blindingly obvious that has been going on for donkey's years...
It's worrying me because I seem to be constantly on her case nagging about day to day stuff. It's as if she's living in some kind of dream world or parallel universe most of the time... is this normal for the age? Am I stressing unnecessarily? DD1 who is 15 is so completely sorted and on the ball about things, I know I shouldnt compare them - and maybe it's a deliberate strategy on DD2's part to be different - but it's actually beginning to affect day to day life.