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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do some reach it later? I have a 12yr old 6th grader who I am still close with. She gives me an occasional eye roll but the majority of the time she is pleasant. She goes to an all girl school and is not interested in boys, makeup, clothes, shopping or anything "teenish".   She is into sports, her friends, playing with her younger sisters and still likes hanging out with me.  I keep hearing horror stories from some parents and am very nervous. We are so close. It must be so hard to let them go and wait for them to come back to "normal". Lol

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My  DD, a 10th-grader, was like this in 6th.  I think she wasn't as bad as some girls get (and probably not as awful as I was to my own mom), but in 7th and 8th we did see eye-rolling and sighs (as in "Oh, God, Mom, how can you be so lame?") and a put-upon attitude when asked to pitchin around the house and random rudeness (interestingly, DH, who has no sisters, was more upset by this behavior on the part of his little princess.)  She was pretty much over this by 9th and is now really a pleasure again.  She's very athletic, still loves sports and has managed (artfully) to steer clear of the mean girl drama at school.  She also loves clothes and makeup, but she's so busy with sports and other activities that she doesn't spend hours at the mall like some other girls.

BTW, we have 2 older sons and they were total pains all the way through 9th grade -- stubborn, defiant, sure that they knew everything and we knew nothing, etc.  They started coming around in 10th and are now, like their sister, delightful.  It's part of being a teen.    [/quote]

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