brilliant day today, after staying up all night last night i finally shooed the teen back to school today, following the christmas break. i managed to get most of my housework done, and finally ran the hoover over some of the carpet, bits exposed anyway, in teens room. i am trying to be strong and leave his room a tip so he takes responsibility for tidying up, when he runs out of socks he will probably notice, but its really hard to close his door and ignore! i am itching to get in there and really spring clean but surely at 14 its time he took responsibility himself?? so lets see how long it is before i give in, past experience shows me it will be me not him that breaks!
on the issue of not sleeping he came home from school dead on his feet, but was not in the mood for sleep. at about six i disconnected the internet, bringing on a massive moody, so gave in, worry about the neighbours who have young children being disturbed. but at 7.30 i decided enough, so i spent 20 minutes turning the modem on and off remotely, after much cursing of virgin, our broadband provider, he'ed had enough and fell into bed to sulk within two minutes he was snoring loudly!! i feel like a mini victory to me as he wanted to stay up "to at least 11". now i will use the next few days to get his sleeping under a much better pattern, although friday night will roll round and he will want to stay up all night again, virgin may just be on the blink this weekend!
i would really love teen to come home from school and then gomout with mates, but his mates all live a school bus ride away, a good 5 miles and river/motorway to navigate, and teen refuses to mix with kids in our village saying they are all horrible! hopefully we will get rehoused soon and maybe get some neighbours with teenagers who he can hang out with.
well i'm off to enjoy the peace of teen asleep and have a bath then an early night!
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