My 15 year old (closer to 16) has good grades as is lucky to be clever and also has great social skills with teachers etc has started with an attitude I would more associate with a 13 year old In some ways. Generally being cocky and challenging. She still tells me where she is going & when etc but seems to feel she is above even carrying a bag of shopping from the car.
She's all eye rolls & flashing her long bejewelled finger nails around in a dismissive manner. Getting on my tits being vacuous & idolising Kim K. She comes out with BS like her friends do shots with their mums every night and comes downstairs at 11pm asking for a beer. Now this probably doesn't sound wild for an almost 16 year old and my question is should I just start to disengage from her a bit and not check up constantly where she is.
My eldest daughters weren't really sociable & confident as she is. She's a "popular" at school which is also a "thing" which gets on my tits ðŸ˜. Basically I feel like saying get your head out your arse with all this popular nonsense but I won't because she's coming across as happy and confident after a period a couple of years ago of being lonely & anxious.
She's not my first teen but she's the first who wants to be out and about. I feel maybe I'm over parenting her so she's acting our like a younger teen with me. I even removed her phone the other night which I just want to move beyond.
Shall I just ease off and let her self monitor? Or clamp down until she stops being rude & entitled. Feel like taking the easy option as she's not a wild child or anything and I'm bored being the bad guy/old fart ðŸ˜