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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm on my third one, and I have learned to let everything go unless it is unacceptable behaviour, but simple flouncing, eye-raising, sighing etc. is best just ignored. I know you can but heads every minute of every day, but try and let things go where you can - it's a dreadful time for all concerned, so don't go looking for a fight if it can be avoided. Don't worry - your daughter will re-join the human race eventually!
It really hurts sometimes doesn't it when you've tried your best & then they treat you with little repect? I was on my own with 2 sons & know exactly how it feels to have your head bitten off, doors slammed etc. My ex & his family used to think it was me being controlling or neurotic when I tried to tell them about it but teenagers really can be that horrible.
All I can say is they do get through it & then she will be a lovely friend as well as a daughter to you. My two are now the loveliest, funniest & most generous young men I could have wished for - so I must have got something right!
Try shutting yourself in your room, play your music very loud & eat lots of junk - confuses the hell out of them!
Thank you to everyone for your idea's and words of wisdom lol ..... I know it wont last forever but it gets a bit much after a while, hopefully she will grow out of it soon, I shall take some of your advice .... lock myself in my room, play music very loud eat loads of junk food and get very very very drunk pmsl
My little girl stopped being a daddy's little angel abruptly at age 11. She then went through a tomboy phase, then a goth phase for years, not speaking to me unless spoken to, not laughing at my jokes or confiding anything in me. Now sh'e 17 and I've got her back again. They grow out of it, just hang in there.
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Talking things over, getting things out of your head and into your voice, discussing options/strategies with other parents. The call takers are parents and NOT psychoanalysts.
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