Thanks Jackie, we might start pocket money shortly $5 per week, & extra chores for it. Her dad has given her a pre-paid phone & topped it up once, she’s used $20 in 2 months, so we could get her to budget the phone top ups out of her pocket money, get into good habits. Sounds pretty stingy perhaps, but we’re pensioners, & gotta leave room to go up.

I do get comments coming back from her father about the child support he pays, which is hard to deal with. He seems to make little remarks that come back through her sometimes & I don’t like feeling we’re being expected to justify our budget. I guess that’s a whole other subject though (goes off to start a separated families/child support/contact arrangements thread, lol).

Lol Lulu at the drama & eye rolling. Another Dr Phil fan eh. Yes the temper is shocking, & so hard not to react with a tantrum of my own sometimes. I know I was a horrible teenager too, but hey, my parents were way more messed up than me, lol.

She got her computer screen back, & has been a little better. Yesterday though she was giving her sister grief, & after listening carefully & untangling the story, made her clean her sister’s room as an alternative to having computer removed again. Seemed to work a treat.

Went to the library today, & picked up some parenting books. DD was looking over my shoulder – “these are about me, aren’t they”. Yes, the whole world revolves around her at the moment, lol.

Yesterday DH let her buy Girlfriend magazine, - all about boys & A-Z of words about sex. Today she wants to shave her legs………….arrrrrgh!