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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be exactly like your teen with complete jerkish attitude and disrespect for parents. Everybody in my family was very obedient and "nice", made their bed, did household chores, except me - I had issues. I refused to be obedient and I won't do what they ask me to do, just because they asked me to do it - no real reason.

I do not know your teen or you, so i can only speak from my experience - When i behaved that way, I was testing the limits of my parents. I wanted to know do they still love me even if I were to be a complete bitch and if I were not to behave how they want me to behave.  And the more they resisted and argued back, the more i thought they hated me and I became even worse. I was compared to my cousin and how she was with her parents, and that even made things worse. I just wanted them to love me for who i was, and wanted them to be on my side instead of thinking of me as a trouble child. no matter what DO NOT COMPARE him with anybody, even indirectly.

Anyway, you just cant reason with your teen right now. It will pass, i think. However, I do think that it does take two to tango, and there is always other side to the story that can't be ignored, no matter how irrational this may sound.

"If there is anything that we wish to change in a child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves" - Carl Gustav Jung[/quote]

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