Tween years
July 17th, 2008 -- Posted in family, life as a mom | 1 Comment »We are full-on into the “tween” years over here and I’m already sick of it.
The attitude, the ignoring, the rudeness, the disrespect. 
Yesterday, Harmony told Paul to “just be quiet”! I mean, not as bad as “Shut-up” or anything but still!!! And she’ll tell us we’re mean. Or try to convince us that other kids don’t have to do as many chores (she clears the table, sometimes sets, and makes her own bed and that’s it! I even do all of her laundry, she just has to put it away sometimes).
Today we cleaned her room, and she was like “No, I’m not doing it!” “I’m on vacation!”, and I had to start doing it myself for like, 20 minutes before she started helping (because she didn’t like where I was putting things – haha!).
And sometimes she’ll just be so sullen and sulky.
I’m thinking her teen years will just be a joy and a half!
Tomorrow is our “Mother/Daughter Day”, which we’ve had scheduled for a while now, including our hair appointments (same place, same time, each our own hairdresser), which I’m *not* rescheduling. Then we are supposed to go shopping, have lunch together, and go see a movie.
She’d better wake up feeling less snarky or we’ll be stuck with pretty hair and nowhere to go with it ’cause I’ll skip the rest and drag her unappreciative little butt home.
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