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Crapola life in general. Day 2 that eldest has refused to get up and go to school despite it being day 1 of NAPLAN testing. It is 11.35 and I feel like I just want to get so drunk, go to sleep and not wake up for a very long time! If it wasn't for the youngest who gives me lip but is otherwise good then I would probably be considering it!
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Crapola life in general. Day 2 that eldest has refused to get up and go to school despite it being day 1 of NAPLAN testing. It is 11.35 and I feel like I just want to get so drunk, go to sleep and not wake up for a very long time! If it wasn't for the youngest who gives me lip but is otherwise good then I would probably be considering it!
If teenage starts at 13 then I have had one kid or another being teenage for almost 12 years
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Shock them back, dont make an excuse for her, no sick note, just write to the school and tell them she refused to go
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If teenage starts at 13 then I have had one kid or another being teenage for almost 12 years
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But you become immune
The upside is by number 3 is nothing can shock you any more , and your attitude can be more meh than theirs.
Shock them back, dont make an excuse for her, no sick note, just write to the school and tell them she refused to go
Responsibility for their actions is the only way teens learn
and sometimes it tough.
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Shock them back, dont make an excuse for her, no sick note, just write to the school and tell them she refused to go
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And make home SOOOOOO BOOOOORING! No TV, music, computer (add electronic device of choice). Nothing she enjoys. Could try hard labour too. No food treats, just plain what she would have had at school. And if there was anything decent coming up in her calendar it just got cancelled.
Hadn't realised I was such a hard-ass!
Hadn't realised I was such a hard-ass!
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And make home SOOOOOO BOOOOORING! No TV, music, computer (add electronic device of choice). Nothing she enjoys. Could try hard labour too. No food treats, just plain what she would have had at school. And if there was anything decent coming up in her calendar it just got cancelled.
Hadn't realised I was such a hard-ass!
Hadn't realised I was such a hard-ass!
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Can't get the phone off her as it spends most of its life down her bra! Took laptop at weekend and she went AWOL for 4 hours till 11pm sunday night, wouldn't answer phone to anyone and had her friends and I worried sick until I agreed to return it. What can I say to that as I just want her home and she knows it. It isn't made any easier at the moment that Mr NB is working overseas and is away for a month at a time. I get 1 week in 5 of good behaviour before returning to bitch mode! Anyway, no point getting pissed off, it is what it is and I just have to pray that it's a phase that we will come out of.
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Can't get the phone off her as it spends most of its life down her bra! Took laptop at weekend and she went AWOL for 4 hours till 11pm sunday night, wouldn't answer phone to anyone and had her friends and I worried sick until I agreed to return it. What can I say to that as I just want her home and she knows it. It isn't made any easier at the moment that Mr NB is working overseas and is away for a month at a time. I get 1 week in 5 of good behaviour before returning to bitch mode! Anyway, no point getting pissed off, it is what it is and I just have to pray that it's a phase that we will come out of.
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My day has been meh! and I hate that expression/word/whatever the **** it is.
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Don't like to go against the crowd... But I had a FABULOUS morning at work... Lovely team, interesting role... Cant wait to get back on thursday... Was a little sceptical about only three hours... But TBH I was ready for my TENs machine and a lie down when I got home.....
Physio tomorrow
Physio tomorrow
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Don't like to go against the crowd... But I had a FABULOUS morning at work... Lovely team, interesting role... Cant wait to get back on thursday... Was a little sceptical about only three hours... But TBH I was ready for my TENs machine and a lie down when I got home.....
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My day got worse...the new handbag my OH got me in Canberra broke halfway up an escalator!!!
Luckily, despite having hands full of shopping I managed to retrieve contents and bag before it jammed up the escalator. Now I have to try to get strandbags to repair it or replace it- it was only a month old and was a leather one.
Of course, I can't find the receipt, having spent half an hour trawling through the bag of things to be shredded.
Then there was a call from the RPA to say that although my doc faxed over the paperwork from various specialists, and they have the date of my op booked, they have no paperwork from me, and to call them back. Of course I didn't get the message till after 5pm.
But NB, I'm having a good day compared to you. Hope things get better for you.
Luckily, despite having hands full of shopping I managed to retrieve contents and bag before it jammed up the escalator. Now I have to try to get strandbags to repair it or replace it- it was only a month old and was a leather one.
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Then there was a call from the RPA to say that although my doc faxed over the paperwork from various specialists, and they have the date of my op booked, they have no paperwork from me, and to call them back. Of course I didn't get the message till after 5pm.
But NB, I'm having a good day compared to you. Hope things get better for you.
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