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Teenagers

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Shally33 · 25/07/2017 15:12

Hi. I have a 14 year old daughter. Who was one of the nicest sweetest kids around. However this past year has been an absolute nightmare. Gone is my hard working child who had never been in trouble. I have been left with a rude nasty kid that after 4 exclusions has been asked to leave the school permantly. Her choice of friends this past year has been shocking but can she see this... No she can't. She has made me I'll with stress and worry. Nothing I do or say makes a difference. Someone please tell me does this get any better I'm pulling my hair out so much so I agreed to let her go live with her dad. Something I deffinetly didn't want to do. I then find myself pandering to her to avoid a kick off. I feel that I am such a bad parent I seriously don't know where I have gone so wrong. Will this dark cloud of a daughter ever lift.

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Kath36 · 27/07/2017 19:37

I do try to hug her a lot she hugs back when she in the mood I try to praise her for all the good things she does. We went out today shopping I told her she looked beautiful she kissed me on my nose and said love u mum. Then on flip side when we came home we were looking at old pics and I said look how cute you were then. Wow is all I can u saying I'm not cute now you think I'm ugly. Seriously wtf. She calmed down after 5 mins or so but I tried telling her that I love her and am here for her no matter what. The ex's ex has been great in truth much to the annoyance of the ex. Her younger sister was distraught when she found out that dd was smoking. It did the trick for a while.

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