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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She has always been self centered and lacked empathy - your words btw but you somehow think that magically as a teen she won't be that way?

You let her grow up to be this way and it was fine before because it didn't effect you directly. 
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I've not "let her" grow up this way.  This is her natural tendency despite all our efforts.  This child is the most stubborn person I've ever met.  Her behavior has directly impacted me her entire life.  This is not a new thing.

Believe me, I've never ignored her behavior.  I think I have the tendency to be too strict so I wanted to see if I was overreacting to typical teenage behavior in my response to her this morning.

Seems the consensus is that this shouldn't be ignored.  She does know how to do laundry but isn't asked to do it regularly.  I will give notice and change that.

[b]And, I don't think advice from someone with one younger child is relevant.[/b]  My other kids do not behave like this.  This one has always been very tough.  You only know your one kid who isn't even a teen![/quote]

Actually, I am the poster you are responding to and my kid is almost 12 so not younger.  And yes, you did let her get this way. I see it all the time. You can't see it because you are in the thick of it.  Basically, it was far easier for you to give in over the years and believe then deal with the situation so you did.

Your other kids didn't behave that way so you realized early on that the parenting techniques you used with those kids were not going to work with this child but you didn't act on that and come up with a different set of techniques.  That's what you needed to do and that's what you need to do now.

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