I Don’t Get Her
What is with my teenagers?! More specifically my 17 year old??? I just don’t get her at all. She doesn’t use any logical thinking in her life. She treats me like she thinks I’m stupid. She is constantly testing the waters even though she’s been told repeatedly that the waters are filled with Crocodiles, Piranhas, Sharks and other assortment of predators who will eat her up if she doesn’t think before she acts.
She lies to my face…boldly. And when confronted with the truth she will still hold on to her lie. She knows that you know she is lying, but she is like a rabid dog with a bone… she will not let it go. Weeks afterward she will still be telling her lie, beating her chest, and telling the world how wrongly accused and punished she was.
Does she really believe we are all that stupid?!?!
And what about all of the little shit she keeps pulling. I mean doesn’t she hear when I am telling her, “If you want trust and freedom back you have to earn it. To earn it you must… stop lying… stop breaking the rules. Do what is asked of you in this house. (Which in the real world isn’t much at all. But in Dani’s world it must be so insane, because she doesn’t do as she’s asked… and constantly acts like we beat her and keep her locked up in a third world prison in a hole in the ground, with no food or water.) Stay out of trouble at school, and bring up those grades.” I think she hears that and then in her brain it must get switched around to… “Be a pain in the ass and a bitch to your parents, fail your classes and break the rules… this is surely the way to getting everything you want out of life.”
I’m just at my wits end… I don’t know what to say or do with her. She seems determined to do the complete opposite of what we ask or what she should.
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