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Hi. I am after some advice. My oldest daughter who is 14 lives full time with her mum and stays with me and my wife every other weekend. She is generally a really sweet caring girl.. But last night my wife came home after being in London for the day with her mum. My oldest came walking out of her room to show me something on her phone, my wife went hello and my daughter just put her hand up and said wait a minute!!
She tried continuing to show me something on her phone. But I was shocked at how rude her tone was so I pulled her up on it and explained that came across really rude puting ur hand up line that.. She sulked off to her room crying etc.., well she went to bed and the following day she just wouldn't acknowledge anyone!! When I tried talking to her she said she won't apologise and she is not wrong for doing it!! Even my wife tried talking to her and she wouldn't apologise. Any advice on how to deal with this would be great.,,
Hi there
This is a case of teenage angst, rampaging hormones and an attempt to test the boundaries....all perfectly normal.
I wouldn't make too much of it, hopefully she will have gotten over it by the next visit. If the opportunity presents itself you could talk to her about it and perhaps even do the same to her, just to demonstrate that it isn't very nice to have it done to you! Hopefully you will then be able to laugh about it and move on.
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