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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a way to allow them to express feelings or negative things without being a total assholes though? I am teaching them they shouldn't take rude behavior or put downs or things intended to make them feel bad or small from others, yet I'm showing them it's ok for me to take it from them? I don't know how to strike that balance. Because if someone is speaking disrespectfully to me they don't get to just keeo yapping on, i shut it down. And I want my teens to see and mimick that. But I feel like it's then confusion to let them be rude to my face and me just ignore all the time. [/quote]

But are they doing it other people?  I find that my teen does it to just me (and Dad to an extent), where with other adults he doesn't.  Not to teachers, neighbors, his friends' parents...I often hear what a great kid he is from these people.  So I'm operating under the assumption that with my kid, it's typical teen behavior with Mom and Dad, he's trying to separate from us and his brain doesn't know how to do it another way.  At least that's what I'm reading in all the books![/quote]

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