It is somewhere in the teen years that daddies little princess morphs into a drama Queen. I went through it with my two daughters and now with my oldest grand daughter.
It appears to come on with puberty and often continues until the parents are nearly or literaly insane.
Not realy
but I'm sure from my own experience that when were in the middle of it it certianly seems that way.
The good new is that when they grow up get married and have children of their own they will get a taste of what your going through now.
In their defence teens, both boys and girls are dealing with concepts precepts and mental and phyisical changes, desires and responcibilities that there is no way they or we can be prepared for. It is something that each and every one of us either have experienced or will experience.
What can we do about it??????
As calmly and sincerely keep repeating the sound advice and expressing the same love for them as we always have.
Remain the constant, the rock, the light house for them while they are in stormy seas. Keep the door open, the light on no matter how much they assure you they don't want or need it. Keep the lines open and the power on. But give them the freedom to learn for themselves that mom and dad are not as crazy or stuped as they seem during these times.
Never stop being their parent!!! Don't try to be their freind. Freinds they have and can get. Guidence and dicipline of a parent though they resist as vampire does the light of day is what they need and desreve from us.
Besides a 40 year old man dressed "goth" and hanging out with teens is simply hidious. Moms!! If your going to dress alike for any reason do so by your standard not theirs.
And most importantly teach them from early childhood that there is one who watches over them, who cares for them as much if not more than we can. One that is with them no matter were they are.
Christ Jesus,
