[crick]

I swear I have a fun, sweet, loving, mentally stable 11 year old girl somewhere in this house, but the last few days she's gone missing.

"Please brush your hair"

"I did"

"Brush again"

"You are always making me do stuff and I don't like it! It's MY hair and I like it this way!"

"Can you please..."
"GAWD, NOW WHAT!???"

"That's a cute look on you!"
"No it isn't, I'm fat!"

Brother gets front seat of the car first
"GET OUT! GET OUT OUT OUT!"
"no, it's my turn"
"Cries hysterically"
Me: "Can you just get in the back and on the way home you can sit in the front?"
"It's NOT FAIIIIRRRRRRRR! You ALWAYS take his side!"

Maybe she'll show up today though...hmm...

[soupnazi]

Is it possible she could be hitting puberty? You mix new womanly hormones with tween attitude & it's nuclear.

[mommytoEli]

lol......i'm sorry. the front seat thing drives me INSANE. so no one sits there anymore. i drive a large suv...and i make both of the teens sit in the VERY VERY back. lol. they have assigned seating back there. no exceptions. and my front seat is just for my purse.

[crick]

Soup - Oh she is...I'm just mocking the absurdity of it all so I can stay sane. Can't do that to her face you know. lol!

Mommy - I think I might just have to make this rule myself, although it is nice to separate them at times by having one in the front!!

[soupnazi]

LOL

I remember at about 12 bursting into tears when we were out of spegettio's. Everyone looked at me like I was an alien...which I was.

Don't worry you should get your daughter back at 17-19. Until then just hold on for the hormone ride.

[loveajax]

I took my 11 year old nephew to cirque de soleil last week....he looked at me all melancholy and said, "auntie ka, it is so hard being a tween!" I had to laugh!

My father always said that I was the apple of his eye....until I turned 12! It is such a hard age, especially for girls, I think!

[DPline]

Missing a sweet 11 year old boy myself.

The rolling of eyes and the sighing! Ahhhhhh!

Haven't had the fat thing, but don't get me started on hair. Please, please, please, could buzz cuts come back in popularity?! This floppy, in your eyes 'skater' hair thing! Especially when he needs to shower and wash it every day. Blah!

No one under the age of 12 sits in the front seat. It is a safety issue. If they have a problem with it, they can read about it in the owners manual and take it up with the air bag manufacturer.

[momraine]

Yeah, my sweet ten year old keeps dissapearing too. Only my oldest two can sit in the front when we are all in the car since they say it's not safe for those under 12 (dd doesn't complain since when we are alone I let her sit there so I can talk to her) M is in a carseat cause a seatbelt won't hold him safe and he is still under 30lbs. Anyway for the older boys one has odd days and one has even. It's so funny in the summer to watch them run to the calandar before we go anywhere. The oldest got odd, since some months you get two odd days back to back. Though he does get it on his birthday. (all my kids have birthdays on even days)

[crick]

Well I thought she'd be back today but she's still missing.

She wanted to take her shower and I asked her to wait until her sick in bed brother got up from sleeping. Her response? "Oh sure! You always want me to take a shower but when *I* want to take one, YOU won't let me! You are sooo INCONSISTENT!"

I admit to being politely snarky with my response

"I'm glad you are using your words and it sounds like your vocabulary worksheets are coming in handy."

It's so wrong of me, but I'm really looking forward to her spending the night with her friend tonight. LOL! At least she did thank me for folding her laundry while she was in the shower. Guess Mom isn't evil ALL the time!

[DPline]

Originally Posted by crick

"Oh sure! You always want me to take a shower but when *I* want to take one, YOU won't let me! You are sooo INCONSISTENT!"

That sounds exactly like something Alec would say. You have my sympathy.

[SAHmom]

crick, love your response!

And the opposite to an 11 year old girl? An *almost* eleven boy...burping, letting gas, etc and thinking it is funny. Ewww! And the backtalking...ugh!

[DPline]

Originally Posted by SAHmom

An *almost* eleven boy...burping, letting gas, etc and thinking it is funny. Ewww! And the backtalking...ugh!

That would be my 6 year old boy. Ahhhh . . . the things they learn at school.

[lucyjoy]

Mine has a way of saying "Okay" in a tone that makes it sound like a two word phrase that starts with F-not nice at all.

This is in response to any request, any statement of fact, etc.

It has this scorching sound that makes grown ups want to strangle him(an it's not just ME)

[lovemy2boys]

Originally Posted by DPline

That would be my 6 year old boy. Ahhhh . . . the things they learn at school.

...your 6 year old and my 7 year old.

He's been back in school for 2 weeks, and is extremely tired and OH SO sassy. I knew it would catch up to him sometime, and yesterday was the day. I was trying to explain his homework to him and he started to get upset and the backtalk began.

I told him that I will continue to help him when he could speak to me in a decent tone of voice...at which point he threw the mother of all fits.

He screamed at the top of his lungs "RULES RULES RULES RULES!!! THAT'S ALL YOU CARE ABOUT ARE YOUR RUUUUUUULES!!!!!" And he broke down crying and screaming like a banshee while I sat there and ignored him.

A short time later, he DID actually apologize for how his outbreak, and said "I'm just so tired, mom". First time EVER that he apologized without me having to talk to him.

Maybe this is the beginning of a wonderful, calm adolescence. Dare I hope? yeah right...

[crick]

Awww Love...poor tired out kid!! Starting school just saps it all out of them for sure! I think it took us about 3 weeks to adjust to all that and it wasn't pretty. Rules..gotta love their take on those, eh?

Lucy - I fully understand the tone of the "okay" b/c I use that very one when irritated with rude store clerks or uhm...the IEP team.

Burping? What's wrong with that one? (Course, I'm the one that tells my kids to pull my finger so the explanation of this is likely to be wasted on me)