i feel my 15 yr old teen daughter is manipulating me. I also feel she is completely pulling away from me. At the moment she has started to go off to her friends before school so they can get ready and get the bus together, I worry her friend is not a good influence, her parents are lax and I feel they like my daughter there as it keeps their daughter occupied. Their family is very glamorous and different to ours which I feel my daughter is attracted to . I know not to interfere in friendships and so am just letting this happen as I can’t see the rationale to argue with her that she must stay here before school. Now she has started to ask me to drop her off at her friends house at 7am in the morning . I am up, I work from home, she is an only child and so there is no practical reason I can’t, except I don’t want to as I don’t like her friend and am likely jealous and would prefer her here, is that being selfish. Shouldn’t I be happy she has friends and that their family is welcoming my daughter. How do I say to my daughter that I wil always be available to take her and collect her places she needs to go, but I think it’s unreasonable she expects me to do this for her before school. I am worried this is just going to be another reason she seems to hate me at the moment . I feel she is manipulating me and I don’t know how to point it out to her without coming across as needy, or damaging what relationship we have at the moment.