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    Your dilemmas

    Oct 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Should I stop paying out to please her?

    My daughter is 13 and so demanding. She wants the latest designer buys or money to see her friends at the weekend, and I open my purse every time because I want us to stay close. But I’m a single mum and can’t afford it. Is it time to start saying no? Hayley, Dorset

    YES

     Pick Me Up! reader Alishia, from Kent, says:

    You’re the adult here and you’re not teaching your daughter a very good lesson. Right now she thinks she can get whatever she wants without working for it. That won’t do her well in the big wide world!

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