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My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« on: September 30, 2009, 03:43:26 PM »
She is so emotional.  She will cry at the drop of a hat.  I signed her up for art classes after school.  She gets off at 1:00 every wednesday and the art classes start right after school and last until 2:10.  I reminded her when I went to her school today to help the teacher that she needed to remember to go to her art class today.  She came home at 1:00.  I told her she needed to run back to school (it is right around the corner). She immediately started bawling.  I told her I paid $75 for those classes and that she is going to go.  She said she couldn't go because now her face is red and her eyes look "all funny".  I told her I didn't care and that by the time she got to school her face wouldn't be all red.  She started crying harder. 

I finally screamed at her to get to her room NOW.  She ran up the stairs bawling all the way.  She just came down stairs with a $100 bill and a note taped to it.  The note said, "Will this pay for the $75?".  First off, where in the heck did she get a $100 bill?  I bet my Mom gave it to her, she is always doing crap like that and not telling me.  I told her to come here and she screamed NO.  I told her to take her money back and she screamed NO again and then added in some pitiful bawling and slammed her door shut.

I swear my other two were a walk in the park.  If you look at this one cross eyed she starts crying.  It's like she is hormonal 24/7 and she is only 10. 
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 04:04:15 PM »
Mines 11, soon to be 12. My wife wants a Premsyn PMS drip for her.    :lmao:
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 04:13:52 PM »
Gad.  If my ten year old had treated her mother or me in such a manor, well, eleven would not be a guaranteed.  Where do kids get off these days thinking they can treat their parents as if they are their peers?   

All my children to this day love and respect me unquestionably, and I swear, there was never a moment in any of their lives they felt free to ignore me, scream at me, or in any way assume we were equals in any situation.  In my house, a slammed door would be a door removed from its hinges.

I guess I was a mean-ass daddy.   :innocent:
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 04:24:08 PM »
My children were not allowed to slam doors...nor lock them. I was the only one allowed to slam my bedroom door. They knew when I went to my room and slammed the door....they were knee walkin' in deep do-do.

Prior to 9/11, we would tell my daughter, that when she had PMS....her personality could flatten NYC in 3 minutes and have 2 minutes 45 seconds of time left over. I thought I had horrible PMS until that child hit 11. She was/is just wicked. And very fortunate that her husband adores her! Her brother used to tell her a guy would have to be crazy to want to live with her!

BEG...check with her pediatrician and see if she can take that new medicine for PMS.....worth a try.
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2009, 04:27:12 PM »
I thought my youngest was emotional wow good luck
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 04:43:24 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on September 30, 2009, 04:13:52 PM
Gad.  If my ten year old had treated her mother or me in such a manor, well, eleven would not be a guaranteed.  Where do kids get off these days thinking they can treat their parents as if they are their peers?   

All my children to this day love and respect me unquestionably, and I swear, there was never a moment in any of their lives they felt free to ignore me, scream at me, or in any way assume we were equals in any situation.  In my house, a slammed door would be a door removed from its hinges.

I guess I was a mean-ass daddy.   :innocent:

You don't understand, I am a mean mom.  All of my kids friends are afraid of me.  I have a look that all kids can read as "You better shut the hell up right now or I will beat you".  My other two kids wouldn't have done this.  They would have cried but they would have turned right around and went back to school to take their art class.  This one has a different personality, my Mom said she is like me.  You can't joke about her at all or she loses it.  If you look at her sideways she cries.  Everyday it is something she is bawling about.  I have told her so many times that she does not talk to me or her dad "that way" yet she does it again and again.   

She also is a hypercondriac.  Her head hurts, her knee hurts, he elbow hurts, her stomach hurts, her tooth hurts....etc.  Now sometimes it is true, like she gets canker sores A LOT (on her throat even) and it is very painful.  But an 11 year old doesn't have that many aches and pains.  I have sat her down many times and told her that other kids don't like hanging around a complainer.  Which makes her cry of course.  I also said it's hard to tell if she is really hurting when she always complains.  Which makes her cry as well.   My mom called me a hypercondriac when I was complaining all the time of not feeling well.  It took me having a stroke to prove her wrong.  :p  She said she would never use that word again.  Then one time we were walking in the mall and I said I felt like I had meningitis, she let the "H" word slip from her lips.  The next day I was in the hospital and diagnosed with chemical meningitis.   :-)
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2009, 04:47:47 PM »
Quote from: BEG on September 30, 2009, 04:43:24 PM
She also is a hypercondriac.  Her head hurts, her knee hurts, he elbow hurts, her stomach hurts, her tooth hurts....etc.  Now sometimes it is true, like she gets canker sores A LOT (on her throat even) and it is very painful.  But an 11 year old doesn't have that many aches and pains. 

My son was that way when he was about 12..knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, neck....drove us crazy!!!! He also grew 7 inches that school year. He really was having '"growing pains"!
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2009, 04:50:55 PM »
Quote from: debk on September 30, 2009, 04:47:47 PM
My son was that way when he was about 12..knees, ankles, elbows, wrists, neck....drove us crazy!!!! He also grew 7 inches that school year. He really was having '"growing pains"!

A lot of her "aches and pains" could be "growing pains" related but it is really odd that she "forgets" about it if she has a friend over or is busy doing something she likes doing.  Before anyone suggests she is doing it to get attention, this kid gets more attention than my other two ever have combined. 
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2009, 04:53:53 PM »
Boy no. 2 is our emotional one. He's just turned 13 and it looks to be a long five eyars until we can send him to work in the mines...
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2009, 06:44:19 PM »
I hear ya!  I was saying the same thing about my #3 today!
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2009, 06:54:14 PM »
Great, this what I have to look forward to with my two girls. I recall rather ruefully being a pain in the ass at that age and getting that "curse" from my mother. My two year old is already rolling her eyes at me.   :whatever:
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2009, 06:55:07 PM »
Quote from: SilverOrchid on September 30, 2009, 06:54:14 PM
Great, this what I have to look forward to with my two girls. I recall rather ruefully being a pain in the ass at that age and getting that "curse" from my mother. My two year old is already rolling her eyes at me.   :whatever:

Girls are a bitch SO.  Just you wait..... :-)
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2009, 07:05:44 PM »
Quote from: BEG on September 30, 2009, 06:55:07 PM
Girls are a bitch SO.  Just you wait..... :-)


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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2009, 07:12:50 PM »
Quote from: BEG on September 30, 2009, 06:55:07 PM
Girls are a bitch SO.  Just you wait..... :-)

My mom and I get along great, except for a few days a month when I go crazy...  I cry at the drop of hat when I'm PMSing, and she gets cranky.  My dad has yelled at both of us to knock it off when we go at it.   :p
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 07:58:37 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on September 30, 2009, 07:12:50 PM
My mom and I get along great, except for a few days a month when I go crazy...  I cry at the drop of hat when I'm PMSing, and she gets cranky.  My dad has yelled at both of us to knock it off when we go at it.   :p


My other half and I started dating a few months before my daughter turned 15. She lived at home more on and than off until she was 24. He used to say he was going to get boxing gloves for us and put us in a ring.... ::) Of course, we were never physical, didn't cuss each other out....but if I said the sky was blue....she would say it was green.....

He was an only child and went to an all boys high school, and had very limited knowledge( :uhsure:) of PMS'ing teenage girls.

On the other hand....I had limited knowledge of teenage boys and he kept me sane with my son's antics! :bow:  
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2009, 08:04:36 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on September 30, 2009, 07:12:50 PM
My mom and I get along great, except for a few days a month when I go crazy...  I cry at the drop of hat when I'm PMSing, and she gets cranky.  My dad has yelled at both of us to knock it off when we go at it.   :p

Pretty much describes me and now my moving closer to 12 year old can be an uber crankasaurus who thinks she's always right. Between me nearing menopause and her nearing puberty we are pretty well lit up around here a few days a month lol
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2009, 08:14:20 AM »
Oh BEG honey, I feel for you! I should give you my mom's phone number :-)

Could it also be an adjustment phase from the move? My son is a drama queen and stubborn as hell. I have no idea where he got THAT! Anyway, when he digs his heels in, it can drag on and on for days. I'm also a mean-ass mama who doesn't take any lip. But, he still tests me!

The only thing that I've found that works is to not react emotionally (so hard for me) when my son pulls crap like this. And yes, he has! If I don't let MY emotions show and stare him down, he knows I'm not gonna buy into it.

I also tell him when he's starting to get whiny/crabby/drama queenish - I'm handing out lollipops and ass whooppins today. Your father just took the my last lollipop. :-)
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2009, 09:03:14 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on October 01, 2009, 08:14:20 AM
Oh BEG honey, I feel for you! I should give you my mom's phone number :-)

Could it also be an adjustment phase from the move? My son is a drama queen and stubborn as hell. I have no idea where he got THAT! Anyway, when he digs his heels in, it can drag on and on for days. I'm also a mean-ass mama who doesn't take any lip. But, he still tests me!

The only thing that I've found that works is to not react emotionally (so hard for me) when my son pulls crap like this. And yes, he has! If I don't let MY emotions show and stare him down, he knows I'm not gonna buy into it.

I also tell him when he's starting to get whiny/crabby/drama queenish - I'm handing out lollipops and ass whooppins today. Your father just took the my last lollipop. :-)

Oooh I like.  :-)
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2009, 11:20:30 AM »
and people wonder why men enjoy going out into the woods and killing animals........
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2009, 11:42:27 AM »
Quote from: jtyangel on October 01, 2009, 09:03:14 AM
Oooh I like.  :-)

Me, driving down the street:  "Who wants to stop for ice cream?"

Four kids:  "Me!' "I do!" "Me!" "Me! Baskin-Robbins??"

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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2009, 11:47:28 AM »
^ROFL! I like that too.

Or, I tell my son - keep it up and you'll find out what happened to the first little boy I had.
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2009, 12:02:13 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on October 01, 2009, 11:47:28 AM
^ROFL! I like that too.

Or, I tell my son - keep it up and you'll find out what happened to the first little boy I had.

Love it! 

Then there was The Kid Pound - a place to call to have your unruly disrespectful hateful selfish children picked-up and warehoused - based on "the dog pound".

And then there was "Brenda", the horrible mean terrible woman who hated children yet she worked as a babysitter, the one to call any time of the day or night - a place to take your unruly disrespectful hateful selfish children for temporary "care".
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2009, 12:19:23 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on October 01, 2009, 08:14:20 AM
Oh BEG honey, I feel for you! I should give you my mom's phone number :-)

Could it also be an adjustment phase from the move? My son is a drama queen and stubborn as hell. I have no idea where he got THAT! Anyway, when he digs his heels in, it can drag on and on for days. I'm also a mean-ass mama who doesn't take any lip. But, he still tests me!

The only thing that I've found that works is to not react emotionally (so hard for me) when my son pulls crap like this. And yes, he has! If I don't let MY emotions show and stare him down, he knows I'm not gonna buy into it.

I also tell him when he's starting to get whiny/crabby/drama queenish - I'm handing out lollipops and ass whooppins today. Your father just took the my last lollipop. :-)

I wish I could blame it on the move but she has been like this for almost two years although it has gotten worse in the past 6 months or so.  Before that my friend use to complain about her daughter and I would think to myself "so that is why you keep trying to pawn your kid off on me all the time".  I never could imagine not wanting to be around my own child at times....until now.  Never say never.

I think I'm going to blame it on my friends kid who my daughter used to hang around all the time.   :p
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2009, 12:22:32 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on October 01, 2009, 11:47:28 AM
^ROFL! I like that too.

Or, I tell my son - keep it up and you'll find out what happened to the first little boy I had.

LOL  When Sarah (the one this thread is about) was little and wouldn't eat her dinner I told her that when Lauren (my older daughter) was little she had a twin.  This twin didn't eat her dinner either and one time they were outside playing and a huge gust of wind blew her away.  She believed it for the longest time.   :p
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Re: My youngest child is going to be the death of me....
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2009, 12:24:22 PM »
Damn ...you guys are really creative!!! :bow:

I just sent my kids to their rooms.....or put drops of tabasco sauce on their tongues when they smarted off.
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Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." – Dave Barry

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