grandtanteJE65
Well, if your daughter didn't bring her daughter up to obey her when she was little, it will be hard trying to start now that she is thirteen.
I honestly do not understand how a girl of thirteen gets to that age without having been taught to speak nicely to her family.
I suggest your daughter cancels her daughter's telephone subscription, or takes the phone away from the girl and tells her she may have it back when she has finished her school-work, helped in the house and done the washing up.
Why are you bringing children up to be selfish uncaring human beings?
What a rude outdated view! To 'Obey' her?? The child isn't a slave for goodness sake. Judging by your rudeness you would have been even worse as a teen!
These teenagers have it so hard right now, its one thing for the adults, where the majority got to go to concerts, theatres, museums, play on bikes, be with friends and all the things we used to do...now the kids are told to Stay Home or you risk killing grandma!
You are extremely uncaring if you don't believe this will affect the stress levels of a child, they are still growing and cannot fathom the fearful world we live in right now!
Yes shes angry, so in my book, I would keep reaching out to her, not avoid her, you are one of the few people she has in her circle right now!
Her mood will be low, theres little else to do, her best happiest carefree years are being lived through massive death counts, so I would leave her notes, something she can read without interrupting. Tell her you love her, you are so sorry about what the world has come to, but things will get easier, this isn't the end of all her fun years, and that you will be there for her whenever she needs you.
She might say nothing, but these kids need support, love and understanding right now, not people avoiding their confusion and pain!