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[quote=Anonymous]Reading this forum, I feel like I’m the only one with a well-behaved teenager? Our daughter is 16 years old and we’ve never been protective parents per say; meaning we’ve always let her have a lot of independence. We stopped monitoring her devices when she turned 12, let her lock her door, and do things by herself. Now she gets good grades, hangs out with an amazing group of friends, cooks, cleans, comes home when we ask her, and never goes out on school nights. Reading this forum I feel like I’m going crazy, there’s so many helicopter moms and dads who don’t give their child any privacy and monitor everything they do. Then these are the same parents who go and post about how their kids hate them, are out of control, don’t know how to take care of themselves, etc. when their parenting is the reason their kids are like that????

My husband and I moved to this area from Germany, and it always astonishes us, and our close group of friends (also immigrants from Germany), that many American parents act as if their kid is 5 when in reality they’re 17. In conclusion, I kind of wanted to just put this out there and see what other’s have to say. Partially this stems from the fact that my 16yo daughter, always comes homes and rants about the kids in her school who can’t do their own laundry or are out all weekend doing drugs, whenever I ask about them, she always says they come from American families with helicopter parents.

And before we get the comments that our kid is lying to us and secretly sneaks out, does drugs, etc... she has takes medications which would heavily interact with any of those substances, I’m assuming that since she takes it everyday and hasn’t been hospitalized; she’s not lying.
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