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amother
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 Thu, Dec 14 2023, 12:39 am
You're leaving so much out of the post that it's hard to judge.
Is she specifically not doing it because she wants to challenge your authority? Is she just busy doing other things and doesn't want to do it right now?
You said it so yourself. You didn't grow up in a normal home. Don't try to replicate what you grew up with because long term it will hurt your relationship with your daughter.
She's 13. She's trying to find her place. Suggest it and leave her be. If she wants to stay up late to do it, then let her stay up late.
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flowerpower
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Thu, Dec 14 2023, 12:49 am
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Welcome to the mom of teenage years! She will not do what you ask many more times. Choose your requests wisely.
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Bleemee
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Thu, Dec 14 2023, 12:56 am
| flowerpower wrote: | | Welcome to the mom of teenage years! She will not do what you ask many more times. Choose your requests wisely. |
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TwinsMommy
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 12:21 am
My daughter is almost 17. At 13 I was still packing all her lunches. Around 14-15, I started making her do it herself 4 out of 5 days a week but one day a week she's allowed to ask me (nicely) to do it. She has a HUGE problem doing ANYTHING because she's SUPER lazy (and a bit coddled, it would seem!)
If she's DOING IT, just not right when you ask her....... I call it a win.
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amother
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 7:55 am
Wow that’s harsh. I’m happy my mother wasn’t like that when I was a teen.
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amother
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 8:13 am
| amother Copper wrote: | | Wow that’s harsh. I’m happy my mother wasn’t like that when I was a teen. |
Why is that harsh. She isn't 5. 13 is old enough to make your own lunch and if not you simply don't have one.
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Chayalle
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 9:05 am
At a certain age, I'm not even involved with whether my teen is making her lunch, and when...it's kinda up to her. This age can vary a bit by the teen, capability, maturity, etc...but the teen years are when they slowly transition to being adults and responsible for themselves.
My teen (15) is in charge of her own schedule and I'm not involved at all. I have no idea what she does for lunch, beyond making sure there are foods she likes in the fridge/freezer.
Also, about our children listening to us, at a certain age we shouldn't be directing them anymore (because if we do, we will clash with their independence and cause them not to listen to us. And because that independence they are developing is important.)
I still do ask DD to take her various shoes up to her room, or the living room will turn into a shoe store, but she sometimes listens, and sometimes "forgets". Or I say something about her room getting cleaned up and laundry put away, and it happens, sometimes sooner, sometimes later....
It's like I have a choice when I want to do certain household tasks....no one is on top of me. That's the direction she's heading. It's supposed to be this way.
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amother
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 9:09 am
| flowerpower wrote: | | Welcome to the mom of teenage years! She will not do what you ask many more times. Choose your requests wisely. |
Loved this post.
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amother
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 9:11 am
| amother OP wrote: | | I was brought up that not doing as you’re told right away is chutzpah so that’s how I am viewing this. How should I view it? |
That sounds like an ego problem. Kids need to listen to parents, but they don’t need to be puppets that jump when you say jump.
Understand that they want some authority over themselves and their time as well. Especially as a teenager! Respect her as a person and she’ll respect you as a person
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amother
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 9:17 am
| amother OP wrote: | | I was brought up that not doing as you’re told right away is chutzpah so that’s how I am viewing this. How should I view it? |
I was raised like you were, and it took alot of parenting classes and work on my part to undo some of that. To realize my kids were created b'tzelem elokim and are not my personal property. To realize that happy children/teens develop into healthy adults. To value my relationship with my teens and to raise people, not soldiers.
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giftedmom
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 9:21 am
| amother OP wrote: | | That she didn’t do what I asked when I asked. Am I being too harsh? Didn’t grow up in a normal family so not sure |
Yes
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chanatron1000
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Fri, Dec 15 2023, 12:19 pm
| amother Marigold wrote: | | Of course it's horrible. It's called a consequence of not making food. It's her choice if she wants to make the food or not. I personally don't think you stepping in with other food to "save her" from her choices is helpful. |
Either you treat her like an adult, and you don't have to dictate exactly when she prepares the lunch, or you treat her like a child, and you're still ultimately responsible for making sure she has food.
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amother
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Sun, Dec 17 2023, 2:54 am
| chanatron1000 wrote: | | Either you treat her like an adult, and you don't have to dictate exactly when she prepares the lunch, or you treat her like a child, and you're still ultimately responsible for making sure she has food. |
I agree
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