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[quote=Anonymous]I love spending time with my now 17 year old.  She definately thinks she's smarter than me and knows virtually everything. While she's occassionally dead wrong, she is in fact hugely competent and funny.  I mostly laugh at her when she's  obnoxious. She also occassionaly lies to me (i've busted her more than once). But there's not a lot of drama. By the time she hit 15-- I understood my role was to set safe boundaries, call her out when she's full of it, but mostly support her and help her become the strong independent young woman that she is. The lies that have cropped are typically related to shifting expectations. You have to re-visit your expectations and whether they should change periodically (i.e. rules that pplied at 15 may need to be revisited at 17).  I truly found the MS years more dramatic because the girl friendship stuff is so stressful and then puberty on top of it.  By Sophomore year in HS, my DD and her friends had really settled into themselves much more.  That siad, some kids really struggle with mental health issues in HS, so my experience is not universal. Full disclosure:  we are a family that is out there with our feelings so there is occassion yelling. But that's not cuased by teen hormones, but rather normal family frustrations and difficulties sharing space during a pandemic.  [/quote]

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