Princess of the house

It didn't take many days before the Princess of the house, Miss 17, is back to her ways of doing nothing and her Dad not noticing or dealing with it.  Two days this weekend she did not do any chores.  Last night she had a friend around and wanted to watch DVDs.  We had to get out of the lounge.  We couldn't go in the other lounge as the rest of them were in there.  I went to bed at 8.30pm with a book.  At least it was a good book.

This morning she and friend didn't get up until 11am.  Then she went out for the day - shopping and to the beach. She strolled in late afternoon in new jeans. While I brought the washing in she was meant to have done - three loads of it - she pranced around the kitchen helping her dad make dinner.  Hard not to feel displaced by her.  I get all the crappy jobs in this house, including disciplining these children, and she enjoys some cooking therapy which I would much rather have done.


We have a rule that cell phones must be kept downstairs - which has been in place for a year.  Many evenings I notice that Princess Miss 17 has hers in her room and gone to bed.  Poor weak Dad - just cannot manage to check. 

I work for the same company as a lady I know a little.  She and I had the most wonderful cup of coffee once where she told me she had experienced the same agony of a stepdaughter who saw it her job to compete with the new lady in her father's life - flirting and doing whatever she could to undermine them.  Listening to this lady, I feel a huge sigh of relief.  I was not going mad - there really are these Princess daughters who rule the house, flirt with their fathers and cause all sorts of grief.  I wonder how I am still sane with this 17 year old doll who wears see through tops, tiny shorts, slaps on the make up and acts all sweet and girly, flirting with her father - my husband - all the time.  Maybe I am not?

I need a real change of attitude over this as it tears me apart.  I don't want us to be torn apart by this minx but I fear I cannot stomach the preference her father has for her and her provocative behaviour.  Heading out for a wine and will contemplate.....