My husband's mother died about 6 weeks ago, leaving 2 daughters, one aged 12 and the other is 14 without a legal guardian. The family relationship is very dysfunctional and we have had very limited contact with them over the past 10 years.
After much consideration and involvement from social services, it's been decided that the 14 year old will come and live with us and the 12 year old will live with another brother who has children close to her in age.
I have a 3 week old baby so the timing is not ideal, and have absolutely no experience with teenagers. She arrives Saturday and I was hoping you could give me some advice. How do I build a relationship with her? What do teenagers like to do? How should we treat her in terms of rules/discipline/rewards? Any advice is really welcome.
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Teenager coming to live with us....help please!
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nippey · 22/07/2015 10:46
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