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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone is constantly making comments to me like "Just wait til your kid is a teenager... omg it is tough!"  or "I had no idea how hard it would be to be a parent until my kids were teenagers." or "Once your kids are teenagers, you will get zero sleep."

What exactly is so hard about having a teenager?   Is it that they are driving and going to parties?  Is it that they care less about grades?

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Most of them have terrible attitudes.  They are defiant, argumentative, don't listen to you, and for the most parent don't really want to hang around you anymore.  [/quote]

People have been saying this about teens since people started writing.  Every culture  complains about their teens.

Teens are difficult because those are the years where you and they completely rework your relationship from a parent child relationship to a parent adult relation. Any change that dramatic is going to be painful.  It just is.  Your teens think you are just as difficult as you feel they are.

Nature (and God) made your kids to separate from you during their teen years. They are doing what they are supposed to do, and that tearing apart is HARD for all involved. Hormones make it worse (their teen hormones and your perimenopause hormones).

But that is normal and natural.

If they remained their wonderful elementary school or preschool selves, you would never let them leave your house.

They turn into teens so that when the time comes for them to fly, you are ready to kick them out of the nest.[/quote]

THIS!  Also them being so irritated WITH their parents and separating from their parents helps them let go of the familiarity and safety of home so that they can fly. [/quote]

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