I will admit we've been pretty fortunate with our teenage sons, very little incidents, both at/ nearly at university at fairly responsible and thoughtful young men and we came through teenage hood pretty unscathed.
Dd is also all those things, really no actual trouble. But my goodness the moods and hormones are another level. She's 13 and I think periods due to start any time now.
I'm worried we're getting it wrong and she's unhappy or is this normal? I try to let the little things go, pick my battles and all that but its pretty full on and I don't want to let all of her back chat and arguing to go unchallenged, the way she speaks to people (parents, brothers- never anyone else) sometimes is uncalled for.
She moves up to high school in September do I'm conscious that she's feeling apprehensive and I'm trying to make one to one time with her and she enjoys spending time with dh. What else can we do to smooth things? I'm aware we have a long way to go!