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13 year old girls

Rose Pink said:
And grandchildren are the reward you get for not killing your own children when they were teenagers.
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So true. Those grandkids are wonderful, and our granddaughter is putting our daughter through it lately, even at 4 years old, she is argumentative, doesn't listen, and she has fits about everything. Tantrums are so illogical.

She is cute as can be to her grandparents, but our daughter has her work cut out for her. Payback time. :rofl:
 
My soon to be 13 year old daughter changes moods constantly. And the same girls she complains about one day, who have done something awful to her, are her best friends the next day. I can't keep up!

My older daughter (who is 17 now) didn't seem to have these issues, but I have to say that my 19 year old son is still a pain in the you know what...still waiting for the whole "college will mature him" thing to happen....
 
I had people at work that when I said I had a 13 yo girl would reply "sorry 'bout that" with no more details given to them. Was a rough ride no doubt about it. The other half didn't like to set consequences which added to it major. She graduated from hs this week and she's been much improved... but it was a a challenge for several years including last summer a few times.

Internet, cable TV and cellphones add to the problem imho. Anyone seen ABC Family's "Secret Life of the American Teenager"? Oh my is what I think of it :doh:
 
I've said more than once that, "my children have no idea how lucky they are that they have parents who don't believe in beating their kids." :D
 
All different

Zac495 said:
My perfect daughter (in school, sports, etc) is a monster to me. She brushes me off, is rude, lies, and expects everything in return. I know it's the age - but I am beside myself.

This is a kid who doesn't respond to taking things away - she accepts any punishment and says fine - I hate you.

Yet, when we get along, it's perfect. I get so frustrated and angry that I lose my own cool. Who has a 13 year old girl??
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My wife and I married when my stepdaughter was 3 and I always thought we'd have problems in her teenage years (never even had a single problem) and now she is 26 and we still haven't ever had any problems.
My nephew and his wife have 3 childeren and one is a 13 year old girl. She has run away several times, cheats at everything, lies, and dresses like a tramp. When she would go to school (that was a problem) she didn't come home half the time. She has lived with an aunt (couldn't put up with her after awile) and then lived with her grandmother (again, couldn't put up with her). Nobody knows where she lives or even if she's alive today. The other two kids seem great and the family all gets along.
It sometimes just happens.
Bart
 
Tia said:
...when I said I had a 13 yo girl would reply "sorry 'bout that" .... Was a rough ride no doubt about it. The other half didn't like to set consequences which added to it major.
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I think that being a active and involved parent is the most important job a person could have. The term "parenting" does not imply just the birth mom and birth dad, but all the positive influences a child encounters in their first 20-25 years.

Tia, seems you must have pulled triple duty - mom & dad to your daughter, parent-figure to your other half. Congraduations on the HS degree.:)
 
vacationhopeful said:
I think that being a active and involved parent is the most important job a person could have.
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As I said in a previous post, we didn't have any problems with either our Son or Daughter. I attributed that to sending them to a "Christian" School. The comment above triggered something else for me.

My wife stayed involved and volunteered every chance she could in School Activities and believe me, the School was always looking for "Free" help. This enabled her to be on a first name basis with all the teachers, with all of our kids friends, and with almost all of their parents. She was aware of everything that was going on with both our Son and Daughter and their friends.

None of this "total involvement" bothered our kids at all. They just looked at school as one big extended family.

George
 
bogey21 said:
As I said in a previous post, we didn't have any problems with either our Son or Daughter. I attributed that to sending them to a "Christian" School. The comment above triggered something else for me.

My wife stayed involved and volunteered every chance she could in School Activities and believe me, the School was always looking for "Free" help. This enabled her to be on a first name basis with all the teachers, with all of our kids friends, and with almost all of their parents. She was aware of everything that was going on with both our Son and Daughter and their friends.

None of this "total involvement" bothered our kids at all. They just looked at school as one big extended family.

George
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We are VERY involved. My daughter is an extreme athlete and she and I are at competitons or practices most of the year . I don't think Christian school is THE answer - I think some kids are easier - but being involved is important!
 
Mine is a boy and when he was in 8th grade I found myself yelling and slamming my bedroom door. I thought, "Who is the adolescent here?" That was a wake up call. He was much better by 15. I think it just depends on when hormone changes are the worst and that can be different for different kids.
Liz
 
vacationhopeful said:
I think that being a active and involved parent is the most important job a person could have. The term "parenting" does not imply just the birth mom and birth dad, but all the positive influences a child encounters in their first 20-25 years.
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There are parents, and then there are breeders.
 
vacationhopeful said:
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Tia, seems you must have pulled triple duty - mom & dad to your daughter, parent-figure to your other half. Congraduations on the HS degree.:)
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Hmmm had not thought of it that way until reading this, thanks, you maybe onto something. My MIL said this week while here for graduation that FIL did no parenting back in the day.
 
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