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She's infected with rage.....

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  • :T OMG!!!!!

    Thank you all so much for making me smile, i mean REALLY smile, the first time for, wow, i dont know how long!!! :rotfl::rotfl:

    I have five darling children, and two step, life is a blast!!!
    DS 21 - has lived with his dad since the age of 13, so I kinda missed all the horrid stuff, he was always great when staying with me, but then, i could send him home ;)

    DD 19 - was the perfect child, untypical teenager, wonderful person - who then became 17 :eek: and the aliens replaced her with the young person who pretends to be her replacement, luckily she now lives at Uni, although is currently home for ONE WHOLE MONTH for christmas! Joy!

    DD - 15 - is..............:mad: The Hormone Aliens took her away when she was about 10, I am waiting for her to return, i may have years to go......

    DS - 16 - has discovered girls, sex, cigarettes, weed, cans of fosters in the rec.

    DS 12 - fingers crossed, ok so far.....

    I was an only child.......i wonder why!!!!
    :happyhear Not everyones cup of tea, but just right for me!! :coffee:
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    My Mother sits back and smiles, she tells me it's revenge lmao

    DD is 14, DS 18. DS the perfect boychild, no tempers, no rages. In 18 years barely a cross word between us. DD on the other hand is like a nuclear bomb meeting a tornado when she's in one. Once a month we get the rages, OH and I know now to smile sweetly and let her get on with it. She stomps up the stairs and sits 'stewing'. She hates us all, wants to live with her Nan (I offered to help her pack but she told me she didn't need assistance...) and we are all generally mean and the spawn of Satan.

    The next morning usually appears a rather subdued apologetic child who then spends a week trying to get back into good books :)
    She's been put onto a mini pill now in an attempt to control her skin and her moods, and though it doesnt always work at least now we get 21 days notice lmao
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    Use/chuck away all of hers and deny it. Once she is faced with having to make do with vaseline and felt tip pen, she'll soon get fed up.




    Remember, if they tried any of this outside the home, the likely consequence would be a smack on the nose, so anything you do (like change the router code, change the iTunes password - which was very effective - forget to sign the permission slips for school trips 'I must have been too busy getting shouted at to remember, dear' - for example), well, they're a result compared to what it would be like in the real world.


    OMG Jojo - you just reminded me of one of the worst rows I had with my mother! she threw all my makeup away cos she declared I looked like a 'streetwalker' when I went out! (probably true, but the fashion was to look like Dusty Springfield - Panda eyes and pale lips!) so I took one of those newfangled felt pens (black of course) and used that instead of eyeliner and shadow!!!!!!roflmao! of course I couldnt wash it off and went around for at least two weeks with what looked like two shining black eyes - cos the felt pen went blueish purple!!!!!!!!!!!!

    (I told you all I was a nightmare - that was one of the mildest of my 'rebellions')
  • I have 2 girls! :eek:
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  • Hmmmm yes - removal of the Internet works well with my 14 yr old - she was horrified to discover how easy it is to remove the router.

    ah yes I remember my dad doing this, also hiding the sky card so we couldn't watch TV, and taking the fuse out of the microwave after we refused to clean up all our exploded food. He also once actually hid the entire microwave down the bottom of the garden... I'm sure we drove him insane. Used to hear him downstairs in the morning counting up the cutlery to check we weren't leaving knives and forks scattered around our rooms growing mould :rotfl:
  • Also my Dad was a fireman, so imagine my shame when he filmed my messy teenage girls bedroom complete with pants etc strewn around the place, and proceeded to show it to the whole of the fire station - many of the firefighters still bring this up now when they see me out and about in town :o
  • BEAR
    BEAR Posts: 217 Forumite
    edited 24 December 2011 at 1:43AM
    I would regularly take the tv to work with me. son would refuse to get out of bed for school - him 5 7 me 5ft, tried everything to no avail but at least the only thing he could do was read or look at 4 walls
    Number 35 :j
  • Thank you so much for this thread. Needed cheering up. My older son isn't too bad, he has the odd strop but so far I can bring him back down to earth. He tends quite often to have reason to get stroppy so the fact that I say I can see his point takes the wind out of his sails. Then I introduce the famous BUT followed by a sentence involving phrases like life isn't fair, appropriate response to get what u want (and/orif u make mum happy by being helpful she is going to be more willing to do it).

    However. I have a five year old. He is far worse with the strops.., and I know he is just seeking out worthwhile tactics for later on! This I am not overly looking forward to.
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    edited 24 December 2011 at 5:47AM
    I have a couple of friends who at one time had FIVE teenage girls!!:eek:

    I have one son who is now in his 30s, he was nowhere near as bad as girls I've seen. He just joined the ranks of The Great Unwashed and squared up to dad occasionally,:rotfl:
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  • lucyhope
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    My DD1 has 2 daughters, I am sitting back and waiting to be able to say 'this is nothing, I remember what you were like' and laughing when she's tearing her hair out!
    She was so bad I had stopped smoking for 4 years and it came to the point of buying a packet of fags or doing time for throttling her!!! Sometimes I wished I had taken the second option. But, be assured it does pass and the alien monster
    they become does revert to being human again.
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