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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 16 year old boy and a 12 year old girl. DH and I raised them both with the same values  but their characters couldn’t be more different.

My 12 year old is  selfish, negative ungrateful and lacks empathy. We take her with us on nice family vacations or nice family meals at restaurants and she’s grumpy and doesn’t even say thank you. She’s a very sore loser in the individual sport she competes in. She has a small friend group at school but doesn’t seem to want to branch out to include other kids. All she seems to care about is Lululemon, Stanley cups and Taylor Swift. I have to push her to write a nice card to her grandmother on her birthday, push her to say thank you when appropriate, push her to do chores and I’m exhausted. I’ve done some self reflecting on my parenting skills but DS is the total opposite of her ( kind, empathetic, great sportsmanship, eternal optimist , great character ) and I’ve raised him the same way.

Has anyone been able to turn such a kid around? I’m not expecting her to be Miss Congeniality but just expecting normal behavior.

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