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 | teenagers!
Okay, you might have guessed by now, but just in case you didn't, this is a rant about.....teenagers.
I currently have a 14 year old and a 17 year old. What I'm wondering to myself most days, is how every parent out there made it through these years?! I sure as hell am having a very hard time - and I fear that it will NEVER get any better. Ever.
Aaron will be going to college in August. He will have to move to Presque Isle, because that would be a hell of a long commute if he lived here and went. And truthfully? I am excited about the prospect of getting some time away from him. It seems to me that we are always at odds with each other - it is really starting to wear on me and our relationship.
A few days ago we had a major blow-out. He called me an "f*cking b*tch", and I took his computer away. When his father came home, he called him names, and Kev told Aaron that he could leave if he couldn't show some respect. Apparently he couldn't, because he left.
He came home eventually that night, but we were all ragged from the afternoon's encounter.
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So they will eventually stop being teenagers, just like you did!
it's totally normal. He's "soiling the nest". He's trying so hard to be independent and he's mad because he can't be entirely independent. Whatever you do, don't say things like "I can't wait until you leave" even though it might be totally true! That will only push him away and vice versa.
"Make it burn always with the hardest flame!"
You just gave me further reason to not look forward to that special time in my daughter's life and it's approaching fast... she's 11 now... that's 2 years from 13... and the official start of 'teenagehood'...