I know of some parents who have basically kicked their kids out when they reach 15-16 because they just can’t put up with the obnoxious, rude attitudes of their teenagers. But I could never understand how they could allow their kids to leave home at that age and when my two oldest babes were young, I used to always say that there would be NO WAY that I would kick my kids out.
These two babes are now 16 and 15 and while the boy (who’s 16) isn’t giving me much trouble, it’s DD15 who is the one who reduces me to tears when we argue and who seems to think that she has it so hard at home and that it would be so much better for her if she moved out at home.
Stupidly, it’s really lame comments that starts full blown screaming matches. I could be sitting listening to DD15 lecturing DD12 about skin care and I could jokingly say “who made you the authority on acne?” and DD15 would end up flying off her handle.
It could be just hormones, on her part AND mine, and I still stand by not ever wanting to kick my kids out of home because I can’t handle them any more but I can totally understand how some parents do it because they hahve reached the end of their sanity.
Someone please tell me that it’s just a phase and we’ll get through it. But please don’t remind me that we still have 3 more daughters to reach teenage years!
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