I just felt compelled to add my own rant to your original rant- I am mom to a fifteen year old. Poor kid thinks he was born a royal prince.
He is a great cause of stress here in the house- doesnt know how to speak proper to me or my girls (age 12 and 10 ). I can ask him even the simplest question and he bites my head off. Very disrespectful, very very lazy, and thinks that I love the girls more than him. Yells at his sisters, cusses them out when I am not around, and has 'fits of rage' now and again-full of cussing at me, *F this *F that, when I try to get him to do something that he doesnt think is fair.
I work full time, and get up at 4:00 every single morning to care for the animals and to get ready for work. I WAKE him up, repeatedly-because he never gets up the first time- then, drive him to school (no bus). Get his sisters up get them ready and off to school, then go to work myself.
I pay his stupid cellphone bill ($60) a month- in turn he is to vacumme the livingroom, take out the trash and keep his room clean. He has a cellphone so I can reach him/vice versa, after sports, while he is out, etc.
I have to hound him constantly to get these chores done..."I was going to do it Mom" or "I WILL!!!!"......when?
His sister does a great majority of the housework without being asked, yet he constantly says that they dont do anything. Asking him to do more, like cut the lawn, will send him off into a big tantrum/rage. And it doesnt get done, usually.
The boy stands four inches taller than me, and his arm span is much wider than mine. A few times he has puffed his chest out to me- and I have dropped him to the ground. (bout killed me to do it, both mentally and physically-I am old- but I AM MOM.)
He threatened to kick the dog/ hit the dog a few times-because the weiner dog is annoying and barks at everything- and was met with instant mom-fury by me. He then tells me I would choose the animals over him. I replied before to that with, "the animals dont disrespect me".
I drive him and his friends where they need/want to go, and more often than not-am his ride home, too. I have told him he can always call me, because I dont ever want him to be in a car with someone intoxicated, etc...but he uses me. I know this.
He is responsible for his own laundry because he accuses me and his sister of losing his clothes/taking his clothes whenever we do it. Its still my fault when he doesnt have any clean clothes. Or he cant find socks. He is like a walking tornado- leaves messes everywhere he has been.
I am ready to send him off for the summer because I dont think I can handle the stress he brings. He is so mean to his sisters- they cant even speak without him snapping at them...I worry about them being home with him all summer while I am at work. His grandpa lives in Tennessee, out in the sticks- no computer, no cable...lol...probably no cellphone service.
Reading this thread makes me feel a little better- like I am not the only one going through this.
