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Posted: 21 July 2007 at 9:32am | IP Logged

    Yesterday dd decided that she wanted to go to the next sale and that she would be up and we could leave here at about 7. Fine I said, then we could get some breakfast and I could get a few other bits I needed and also some bits for school for her and be home by lunchtime.

    Well I was up at 6 and then woke her at half past six. It is now 9.30 and we are still at home. she managed to get her breakfast at 7.30 and then went back to bed. I am fuming, totally p****d off etc. She has said she will be ready by 10 once she has finished watching something on TV. I am trying very hard not to loose my temper. If I had known she was going to be like this I could have been there and back by now. At this rate by the time I get there, there won't be anything decent left for Harry and she knew I wanted to look for some clothes for work for me.

  Sorry just needed to have a rant. Teenage daughters ugh- where have I gone wrong?

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 9:38am | IP Logged

ohhh noo,give her till 10 when she said she'd be ready and then just leave without her if she isnt ready....will show her you mean what you say and wont be messed about youve given her enough chances!

hope you can still get some bargains i was down at 5am last yr and people were fighting over stuff!lol

xxxx

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 9:40am | IP Logged

   I am seriously thinking of doing that because why should I let her ruin my day!!!!

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 11:05am | IP Logged

I can join in the comiseration of having a teenage daughter.  I have 2 one who has decided not to speak to me for the last 3 month because she owes me £135 (long story) somehow it is my fault though and I am getting a hard time off other members of my family because of it.  My other teenager although has her moments of moodiness in general is lovely.

I would just go too (although I know I wouldn't lol).  Why do we try to please them so much and keep them happy......  I am sure we were never like that as teenagers!!

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 3:19pm | IP Logged

Hey Nicky,

Hope you managed to get some stuff.  I was in town at like 9.30.  I was at Next, but nothing really stood out and shouted 'buy me' - The kiddies stuff was ok, again I didn't get anything there either, went to Primark instead!! Hehe!  Got Trav a pair of cool trousers for £2! Whoo!

Really hope you got some stuff!  Teenage girls eh?  Hahaahh!!!   (says me)

xxxxxx

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 3:58pm | IP Logged

If It was me I would have left her there.

Rachel trows huge tantrums if she has to leave the shop and getting into the car....some times I want to just pretend to leave with out but dh won't let me, and she only 2.

Posted: 21 July 2007 at 6:47pm | IP Logged

   Well we eventually got to Ayr at 10.30 ( did stop off en route for new Harry potter book from Asda). Anyway I really began to wonder why I had bothered taking her even though she had asked, but as you said mumsam it is hard not to. If I didn't try and please her then I would called upteen horrble things. 

   She moaned and she groaned. Everything I picked up and liked I was told would look horrible on me, so only got 1 jumper. Somehow she managed to get a whole bag of bits, none of which she really needs. I then started to look for things for Harry- 'Haven't we finished yet. I'm hungry, I need my lunch etc. Well despite her moans I found a few bits for Harry.

    What really annoys me is that I try and spend one to one time with her without dh and the boys and I just get everything thrown back in my face and if I don't try and do this then I feel guilty that I am forgetting her and leaving her out of doing things.

   How many years until she leaves home? Oh no she is threatening to live at home when and if she goes to uni.