My Dd is 12 so not a teen yet but she is so slow and floppy and takes ages to do anything. She comes down for meals late, she flops about, she gets up gets a spoon, sits down and flops some more, gets up again and finds the cereal and so on ... all the while I am feeling more and more irritated!🤣
Plus she seems to have no oomph to get ready and no desire to take any responsibility for herself. For example -
Friends were giving her a lift to the bus into town. I talked to her about it saying she would need to be ready by x time as the bus wouldn't wait. I went up 15 mins before to check - she was mid- getting ready. So that was something.
Friends are waiting outside and ringing the bell and she is still wandering about getting her bag together as if there is all the time in the world.
She asked to learn guitar - and wants to! - but doesn't touch it outside of lessons. It's like she has just forgotten.
I am not sure how to help her or whether indeed I need to.
I've wondered about giving a warning that if she is not ready by x time then we simply will go without her.
I feel I ought to help her - she's only 12 - but there has to be a line and a consequence somewhere. She just doesn't seem to register that others are waiting for her and that the bus will not wait.