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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I enjoy my teenage son a lot-- we went through some very hard times with him but he seems to be coming out the other side and he likes to spend time with me and he's just a cool, interesting guy.  I love my daughter but she's in the VERY moody stage right now and it's a bit hard to take.  I finally have learned, through the hard times with the first one, to [b]just walk away and take nothing personally[/b]!  [/quote]

I don't have a teen yet, but I will remember this line.  It is hard to just walk away and take nothing personally when kids talk back, not respectful and ignore you.  I will try harder.[/quote]

Not sure how old your kids are, but I will say that before they were teens, I did not walk away--I was really into teaching them to be respectful.  For me, the strategy changed when my DD became a teen because their brain changes.  Pre-teen, you've given them a baseline of the rules.  They now *know* how to be respectful, but unlike little kids, their brain wants drama.  So your parenting strategy changes because you don't want to give their brain positive feedback via drama.  So you ignore snarky behavior.  Then after a while, getting no drama out of you for their talking back, they revert back to their old behavior that you taught them pre-teen.[/quote]

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