Parenting Teenagers (12-18) Support Group
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of teenagers (12 to 18 year olds). The major areas of child development include: physical development, perception and sensory development, communication and language development, cognitive development, emotional development and social development.
I lost my purse on Wednesday night after I went shopping, I had 50 dollars in there along with my checks and my debit cards well lately this purse has been my life. I usually can leave it around my house and not worry about it being stolen.
Well I been looking high and low for 2 days. This morning my daughter non chalantly brings it in and tells me she found it where I have been looking all this time. Well she claims its been there all this time. I think she is lying to me, I think she is lying because usually when she finds it she tells me how dumb I am for leaving my purse around. She just said that it was there and the money was gone and started to tell me this and that about how I was supposed to give her gas money and she couldn't get gas money. I can't trust her now I have to keep an eye on her now. And hide my purse and money from her. I wish I could trust her, but her aloholism is getting the best of her, even causing her to steal.
I want to say it wasn't her, but I have been a victim of theft long time ago and the person who was stealing from me then was had the same attitude as my daughter. I want to trust her, but I find it hard to. Am i the worst mother out there? Or does anyone have a daughter like mine? Or am I just placing blame where there is none?
Well I been looking high and low for 2 days. This morning my daughter non chalantly brings it in and tells me she found it where I have been looking all this time. Well she claims its been there all this time. I think she is lying to me, I think she is lying because usually when she finds it she tells me how dumb I am for leaving my purse around. She just said that it was there and the money was gone and started to tell me this and that about how I was supposed to give her gas money and she couldn't get gas money. I can't trust her now I have to keep an eye on her now. And hide my purse and money from her. I wish I could trust her, but her aloholism is getting the best of her, even causing her to steal.
I want to say it wasn't her, but I have been a victim of theft long time ago and the person who was stealing from me then was had the same attitude as my daughter. I want to trust her, but I find it hard to. Am i the worst mother out there? Or does anyone have a daughter like mine? Or am I just placing blame where there is none?
My son has also stolen money from my husband and I. We have caught him in the act. There is nothing we would not give our son if he truly needed it, including money. He has no reason to steal. We disciplined him and lectured him when his stealing occured. It is hard to imagine that ones own child would feel the need to take something without asking, but I am not hiding my son's faults. That would do him no good. Recently, he opened doors to cars and stole 2 GPS units. He was asked by a police officer later where he got them and he admitted he stole them. He spent the night in jail and faces petty thieft charges. I'm glad he was honest in his answer, but ashamed that he felt the thrill of stealing.
I cannot imagine my daughter calling me names! I am not stable enough for that. My daughter called me a jerk once. Next thing I know I was choking her on her bedroom floor. She called herself "telling on me" to her counselor and I told them both that I love my daughter but there are some things I cannot handle and calling me out of my name is one of them!! I am so not "ok".