My oldest turned 8 about 2 weeks ago... and I don't know what happened to my sweetheart!
She has become so mouthy, lazy, irresponsible... I am at my wits end!!!!!
She already has so much drama in her life it is not funny. The whole "she's not my friend" any more crud... then this "friend" calling my house to tell her she's sorry and my daughter crying on the phone to her.
She constantly forgets her homework to the point where I have started coming into the school 10 minutes early so I can "remind" her to pack her things properly.
I ask her to please clean up her coloring and craft supplies when she is done.... and she just walks away, leaving them there.
Then when she gets punished, she bursts into tears. Then she'll make sassy-mouthed comments to me and even roll her eyes at me.
I swear she is more work now to parent than when she was a toddler!!!!!
DH thinks she is getting too many punishments, whereas I want to nip all this crap in the bud before she does become a teenager and it gets worse. It's not like the rules changed overnight around here.... they are the same rules we have had for years now! The punishments have changed a bit... like we added no phone calls if she forgets to bring home schoolwork... but that got so out of control, like I said I am going to school now to help remind her. So now she loses the phone whenever she mouths off to me.
Please help me... reassure me that I will make it through this!!!!
She has become so mouthy, lazy, irresponsible... I am at my wits end!!!!!
She already has so much drama in her life it is not funny. The whole "she's not my friend" any more crud... then this "friend" calling my house to tell her she's sorry and my daughter crying on the phone to her.
She constantly forgets her homework to the point where I have started coming into the school 10 minutes early so I can "remind" her to pack her things properly.
I ask her to please clean up her coloring and craft supplies when she is done.... and she just walks away, leaving them there.
Then when she gets punished, she bursts into tears. Then she'll make sassy-mouthed comments to me and even roll her eyes at me.
I swear she is more work now to parent than when she was a toddler!!!!!
DH thinks she is getting too many punishments, whereas I want to nip all this crap in the bud before she does become a teenager and it gets worse. It's not like the rules changed overnight around here.... they are the same rules we have had for years now! The punishments have changed a bit... like we added no phone calls if she forgets to bring home schoolwork... but that got so out of control, like I said I am going to school now to help remind her. So now she loses the phone whenever she mouths off to me.
Please help me... reassure me that I will make it through this!!!!
It's so much harder parenting older kids than it is toddlers/babies. And a lot less fun, :LOL Anyway, what helps us is that I had ds1 make a list of the qualities he wants others to see in him. Then when he starts "acting out" or being rude I will gently ask him if that's in line with his qualities. Then he is setting the standard not me. It works quite well.
