Is your teenage girl under attack?

[robinpud]

very thought provoking article here

Worth reading with your morning coffee.

That article really struck a cord with me and my daughter is only 15 months rather than 15 years old!

I agree with a lot of that and especially about teenager girls still needing their parents. Dd1 was 20 last week so just out of her teens (and dd2 is only 11 so I'm currently a teen-free zone!!) and although she hasn't been 'difficult' she has needed a lot of care.

What amazed me was the huge leaps in development she's made, something I think that was much more gradual with my boys. Dd was talking about going to uni at 17yo and I was 'Eek!' at the very idea. We persuaded her out of that yet by time she was 18, it seemed the perfect thing for her to do because she had matured so much.

And whilst teens may rail against this, that and the other in life, I think deep down they prefer to have boundaries, it makes them feel secure. We have no public transport where we live, which many see as teenage hell, but dd1 said to me not long ago that she liked it because it meant she didn't have to run with the crowd. If she didn't want to get involved with something she could blame her awful parents for not running a late-night taxi service rather than look a wuss.