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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ya, welcome to teen hood.   I have two teens: one is great about this kind of stuff; the other, not so much  :?

This is one area I do not want to allow for natural consequences. Grades are too important for college, but as long as their grades aren't suffering, then you just have to tune out their whining and blowups.

I try as much as possible to speak calmly to them and not blow up myself.  Hard for me to do because I'm pretty high strung myself.  Having kids has definitely made me try to be calmer.

I also find it really hard to not say, "I told you so" every 30minutes.[/quote]

My big issue with him is he is constantly pushing, testing, saying things like why does it matter, I don’t care…. I am patient generally but sometimes after a string of incidents I can’t take it anymore, like his tantruming yesterday about something so avoidable. It tends to ruin quiet moments a lot. We were peacefully watching a show with dd who did all her work and he truly explodes over this. It feels unfair of him to impose his moods and mistakes on everyone else.[/quote]

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