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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh, I just said this to my DH today.  Our 15 y.o. teen DDs is so difficult!  She was soo b*tchy to me today.  And our other DD is so sweet; ok, she's only 13, but hey when the older one was 13 she was from hell.  She's actually better now at 15.

I don't know why it is that some teens are so difficult.  But when my 15 y.o. DD is NOT being difficult, she's really wonderful.  So I look at that as light at the end of the tunnel.

The thing that gets me through is I'll think, "just relax, 3.5 more years and she'll be in college."  It's the only way I can hold it together.

I wonder if there is some connection between deep social/philosophical thinking and difficulty (drama).  Because my older DD has a really interesting mind and thinks about lots of issues in depth; she's really fun to talk with.  But when she's horrid, it's like the worst lawyer you ever met.  In contrast, my younger DD is sort of a factual or concrete thinker, e.g. "I saw 3 hawks today" and her response to "how was your day" is "good!"  I was thinking the math/science types might be easier to raise.

hmm.  I might start a post and ask parents of adult kids about this![/quote]

Have you all taken the Myers-Briggs personality test?

It's not the end-all-be-all to explaining this or anything else, but I do think it can be a useful tool for undersanding ourselves and others (and ourselves in relation to others . . . ) and also the variances in human behavior.  It can be useful in helping teams of people work together more smoothly effectively in the workplace.  I'm sure it's useful in other systems, too -- including the family.

I could guess about the differences in your daughters based on what you've described.  But have them do a free or inexpensive MBTI and then google around for personality descriptions.  I'm sure you'd learn a bunch.  Even more if you did it yourself, too.  :)[/quote]

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