I was listening to an interview today with the author of The Princess Bitchface Syndrome and it occurred to me that really, by the time your teenage girl is a teenager the dye in many ways has been cast.

He talks about setting boundaries, being clear that the things you might provide your daughter – trendy clothes, taxi service, mobile phone, time on the internet, long conversations on the phone etc etc – are not a right but a privilege, about making sure that they are aware that having rights means having responsibilities.

Surely this is something that needs to start early?

Of course you reply.

So fired up with all this new information I arrive home and tell my husband that yes he is right to insist our children do household chores – after all we don’t want the Childhood Sloth Syndrome to rear its ugly head – and that I’m a converted zealot in the disciplining the children philosophy because I don’t want to live with PBS in my future.

We have a delightful dinner and daughter is asked to put away the dishes and get ready for bed – you know – get into pjs, brush teeth, hop into bed. We ask her four times. She can’t find her pjs (in her dirty clothes basket where she put them after one wear), she can’t turn her pj bottoms the right side up and oh, can I have the jelly I made with Auntie M today?

No. Have it in the morning. Go to bed we say.

2 minutes later. Look I got the top off, she says with spoon in hand and a little grin.

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Husband comes in – um she really was looking forward to that jelly, she cuddled it all the way back from Auntie M’s, I think that might have been a bit harsh. She is crying into her pillow.

But I am supermum! I go in. Did you understand why I threw the jelly out? No answer. Did you understand. (this goes on for a bit) Yes. (in a small voice)

Well I understand how important it was for you so I’m sorry but maybe I can get the recipe and we can make it again.

Next time, she says, I’ll eat a bit first.

If you had done that my girl, I wouldn’t have offered to make it again. Next time, do as you’re told.

So am I supermum or superbitch? The jury is out.