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The cute and talkative preteen you once knew and loved may have morphed into a creature who is filled with complicated emotions, wanting to distance herself and to constantly challenge your authority. But don't worry -- many parents have raised healthy, independent teenage girls and have lived to tell the tale. How to Deal with Your Teenage Daughter. Boundaries and Dysfunctional Family Systems - Psychotherapy Treatment And Psychotherapist Information. Mark Dombeck, Ph.D.
Updated: Aug 1st 2006 "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. " - from "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. Help Your Teens Unlearn Abuse. M’s Comment: …When I say…‘I am uncomfortable with that phrasing,’ … I am fine with explaining ‘That’s how I feel when I hear it’ [to own] my feelings [instead of labeling my children] etc. … But both my sons will then say they’re made uncomfortable by my objection; they have a right to express themselves in this ‘normal’ way and it’s a generational difference, or me being too fussy, … I can’t keep walking away from meals and conversations with my own sons!
So usually I reason with them a while and then give up, allow the subject to be changed, and that looks as if I’m sulking or defeated (since they’re reading the conversation in winner/loser terms). ‘Defeated’ confirms that I was wrong in the first place.Besides never ‘winning’, I hate seeing them grow up without the live-and-let-live values of mutual respect that I have always taught them. First, M, you’re doing a wonderful job.