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[quote=Anonymous]My teens need and young adult children need my help less often, but what help they do need is so fraught with emotional landmines that it felt much more difficult than the easy going school years. For example, my 18 year old daughter is perfectly capable of packing her own luggage for a trip she is taking, but she constantly asks me my opinion on items she has chosen to pack. Then gets upset if I actually offer any substantive advice and argues with me over everything I say. It's exhausting! The learning to drive months were also pretty intense. And the college application years (was that only months?) and the finding and keeping a summer job months... and the college scholarship application years. It's all intense. [/quote]
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