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I feel like I wrote this!  My daughter picks a fight with me every day I pick her up.  The other day she mentioned two girls who go competitively ride horses (she does not ride - and I don’t really know these girls - I’m just listening).  So, I’m trying to be a good parent and let her talk - ‘oh, are they friends?’  This made her jump straight down my throat shouting at me - ‘no they’re such different people!  How could you imagine they are friends’ etc.  I respond - ‘well, they both ride at the same place, attend the same small school and church, and their parents travel in the same social circles’.  Again, I’m met with hostility.  So finally I say - ‘let’s not talk.  I don’t like the way you treat me.  Honestly, I don’t care about what two kids I barely know do for their extracurriculars or if they are friends, and I was just letting you talk and that’s what you brought up.  I am tired of this happening on repeat about very mundane topics every day.  If you cannot treat me with respect, don’t talk to me.’. This is probably the wrong approach, but after a very busy day, honestly this is the last thing I need.  Especially since I pick her up and drive to the elementary school to get her little sister and nearly everyday she picks a fight with her sister too.  Generally, she’s a sweet kid, but he has MOODS!  and I always get the sh!+ end of the mood stick.  I’m done.  She only treats me like this in the 2 hour window after I pick her up from school.  I will avoid talking to her in the time from now on.[/quote]

Let me know how it works out! I have tried this from time to time - but then she gets hurt/offended and then things escalate. I must be doing it wrong.[/quote]

hmm- I usually hand my phone to her so that she can pick music and everyone spends like an hour decompressing when we get home, by ourselves.  After this I usually have to start pushing dinner time, hw time, practice. ive spiced that they are kind and nice to talk to at bedtime just like the cleaves- so I try to set aside time to talk to each kid before heading to bed myself. It doesn't always work but I jut want them to enjoy life again and stop being so mean to me![/quote]

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