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Ie no friends for the first month, 4 hours a week for the second month or whatever. She clearly needs boundaries but I don't even know how to begin to create appropriate ones.[/quote]

So I'm not understanding why "no friends" is an appropriate boundary? I understand creating boundaries around where she goes and around time that you are taking care of the child while she is doing fun activities, but that doesn't mean "no friends."[b] There are lots of appropriately supervised ways that she could interact with friends[/b] -- and it probably would be good for her to have time to spend decompressing with other teens. You could supervise her and one close female friend -- take them to a mall, drop them off at a movie, you stroll around the mall with the baby for 90 minutes, then take them to lunch/dinner with baby in tow.

And I think also that making sure she has a fun activity to make up for missing the dance would be nice. Don't constrain her so much she busts out and rebels. [/quote]

I don't get OP's incessant need for adult supervision. I mean....the baby is already here. [/quote]

Oh well, fuck it, you're right.  She's already ruined her life so just let her have at it, hanging in parking lots with shiftless young adults, drinking and smoking all day.  Sounds like a plan.   :thumbup:[/quote]

Why doesn't the OP know the teen's friends? How old is OP? I didn't have adult supervision but my mom knew who I was with and they weren't shiftless young adults. Even then, the smoking and drinking didn't come until the much later teen years (17-18) when adult supervision would have been a joke.[/quote]

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