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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One day I was thinking “And this is why 18th century parents sent their teens off to apprentice with other people.”  Throughout human history, no one has really wanted to spend this much time with their teenagers.  Its unnatrual.  [/quote]

this is great[/quote]

It is also true. Anyone who knows a thing about child development in the teen years knows this and should understand it.[/quote]

And yet, no one can prove it with scientific citations.

You’re just blowing smoke out of your a**.[/quote]

How about you Google “teenage developmental stages” and find one source that [i]doesn’t[/i] talk about the very normal need for kids to establish social and emotional independence from their parents, or their very normal preference for friends/peers over their parents.[/quote]

That has nothing to do with the PPs who can't stand to be in the same house as their teens. This developmental stage does not mean everyone hates each other and spends no time together. It also does not mean that teens can't also understand that times are different during pandemic and adjust in a normal, healthy, and civil manner.[/quote]

It has everything to do with it. Having to spend 7 months in abnormally close contact with the very people your brain is wired to begin distancing from is liable to cause some blow ups. Period. Doesn’t necessarily mean the kids are ungrateful brats, nor that the parents are doing a terrible job. And certainly doesn’t mean that anyone hates each other. It’s just humans being humans.

If you’re not having these experiences with your teens, that’s great. I’m about as thrilled for you as I was for parents whose newborns slept through the night,  or whose 5 year olds loved vegetables. Kids are different, but not necessarily because of anything you did, so spare us the smugness.

And again, hyperbole. I’ve gone back and read the OP a few times trying to figure out what the big deal is and I think some of you are taking her way too literally.[/quote]

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