Sorry to hear that! Can you seclude yourself with a great book to keep your mind off the pain and the teenager. I hear you, my daughter is 13 and has RSD and Hormones!

Feel better and think good thoughts!

Gentle hugs,

Kristen
www.lifecoachingworldwide.com

O this one is LOUD and STrong willed to boot! I'm getting a headache. Wish I could block him out sometimes!

Teenagers...yikes. I've raised 3 boys to adulthood and the 2 younger ones, by myself. I'll share one story of my 'taking charge'!

My middle son loved to play his dreadful techno music at a volume that could make the whole street vibrate. One evening, I stood at the foot of the stairs, yelling for him to turn it down. Of course he couldn't hear me...he was busy losing his hearing.

So...smart Mom that I was, I knew which breaker controlled just his bedroom which had every electronic device known to man.

I flipped the switch, his room suddenly went dark and quiet and I yelled...'can you hear me, now?'

Single Moms have to be creative...

Good luck with the teen and I hope your pain lessens and sleep is peaceful.

Cherry...xoxo

Roflmao Cherry that was great. I so love your humor.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
My daughter was 3 hours late today and never even said thank you mom for watching Aly. URGH!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of being taken advantage of.

LOL, Cherry.....great thinking! I never was that fast of a thinker.....but if I had it do over with all the hard knocks of parenting.....I think I would be faster to the draw....

Oh I hear you my youngest son is 16 who thinks I am his personal asst and have the time and wanting to drive him and his friends around and I love it when I make dinner for him to say I dont like that do you think you an go and get me a pizza and when I do not bend to his wishes I am mean and not loving to him.

I also have the house full of friends who make a mess and eat all my food and drink everything in the fridge. Between my three sons I had 9 boys and girls in my basement and think when I call dinner they can all come up and grab a plate, it is hard enough to feed our family of seven I cant feed that many people.

LOL, Cherry.:) My best story is about table manners. I had fused for weeks and weeks about the proper way of holding their fork and sitting up straight. I had had it with them slumpled over and shoveling food in their mouths.
So one night we sat down to eat and of course I had to remind them how to hold their forks. When they had them held properly I went around the table tapping their hands that way. They had to eat the entire meal that way. I did it with duck tape really good so afterwards it took a while for them to get it off.:)
I never had to tell them how to hold their forks again:)

My oldest likes to run all the hot water out. I have shut the water off on him before!

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Ok......I feel better now:) Thanks

i went threw this 6 times i understand .cherry is rigth be creative . Like
my grandkids would not go to bed so i told them i grounded mommy and daddy to there room , they cannot come out of there rooms neather can you.My grandaugther look at me she ok grandma ill go to sleep in half hour they where out lol.

I raised 2 boys, and when they were 7 and 10, I sat at the dining table and was sooooo sad. I told them I was sad because in a few years they were going to think I was stupid and not know anything; they were going to hate me. But it really wasn't going to be the truth, it was just going to be their age mking them feel that way about me. Well, at the ages of 7 and 10, I was their world. They both replied to me "Oh, no, momma, we'll never think that!"

A few years later when my older one was 13, he started to get an attitude. I said to him "do you remember a few years ago when I told you you were going to feel this way about me and it was just your age that was going to make you feel that way?" He stopped the attitude, and said "Oooh! I do remember. I'm Sorry mom." I knew he would still have those rebellious feelings, but at least he didn't direct them at me. He's now 31 and on his own. He's studying to be an architect, and his wife just graduated from veterinary school. I'm so glad we weathered the rebellious phase without any casualties. And I'm so thankful we had that talk when they were 7 and 10.

The rebellious teen phase is just God's safety valve. If they weren't contrary, we would never want them to leave the nest to be on their own.

Dixie and all I understand. My oldest son is now 38. It is a wonder he lived to be that age. I found my best way to communicate with him was letters.
He is a visual learner and we both like to write. He still has the letter I wrote to him when he was 16.

I don't think his behavior changed much but it sure helped me to write it down and also I could do it in love. By the time I finished the letter I felt a lot better.

Now he has a 3 year old son just like him.