Sue says:
I have 2 teenagers and I also try to be loving when we all leave in the morning. However, sometimes I just have to tell them - you know, in nature, some mothers eat their babies when they are born. Not very nice, I know, but better than fuck you! Hang in there, there will be better days!
Which made me laugh out loud. I think next time kiddo gives me lip, I'll tell her "y'know, if we were tigers I totally would've eaten you by now" and see what happens.
Last night and this morning were much, much better. And the thing is, the good times are really the norm with us. Which is why it is just so hard when we have a problem. That, and she knows me really well and knows exactly what to say to hurt me. My Dirty Hippie Theory of Parenting says that this is normal, and my job is to tell her that that's wrong and set a better example of how to act by NOT responding in kind. Which, as we all know, is waaaaay easier said than done.
In other news, I have a headache that feels like somebody is pushing a spike through the back of my head and out my right eye. Whoo.
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I started telling Lil Guy long, long ago, a la Keith Huxtable, that "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out." He was so young that he asked me "Um, mom, how do you take someone out of the world?" He was like 5. I felt a bit bad, but now he'll just finish the sentence for me, and thinks it's funny.
I have SOOOOO much to say about this, but no time at this exact moment. Quick version is this: I think you are 100% right that your job is to set a decent example by trying to remain calm and not over-react. And goddamn it, that's hard to do when a little teenage twit is behaving badly. BEEN THERE! She's 14? Man, you got a few more years of this ahead of you if she's anything like my daughter. So, pace yourself.
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