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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, all teens want things last minute. That doesn't mean they should/need to get their way. I've seen families where the teens only do activities if they can get themselves there ... no sports teams unless they bike, learn themselves about the city bus schedule .. etc. I know families where teens don't see one of the parents for months. It happens. All families are different. Kids are very resilient. Let your preteen express themselves, to a point, but you do not have to put up with disrespect.[/quote]

Kids aren't that resilient, it is more often it takes a few years to see the damage. There are an awful lot of people in therapy or who should be in therapy due to their childhood and adolescence.

I know a young women who tried to kill herself in her early twenties and the source of her distress was not feeling loved or enough to her parents. Both had high powered careers and had little time for her. During adolescence she tried to e perfect and get their attention and approval. She looked like she was resilient but she wasn't. By college, she started to accept the reality that she would always be down the list of her parent's priorities and she ended up very depressed.

It is common for kids to smile and just truck on until at some point they can't and fall apart.[/quote]

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