I have found that to maintain a close relationship with your children as they turn into adults you have to try to find common points of interest my son is 31 Going on 32 and we both love video games and we actually sit in our respective homes and play video games online together we also both play the guitar and enjoy writing and playing music so I'll go over to his place and hang out and we'll play guitar together we talk constantly and we're both into different types of art so we talk about art all these common points of interest have kept me in a very close relationship with my son even as he is now in his 30s

Sorry about that. She will most likely become a tolerable person in a few years. ? I used to joke about how my parents were such morons when I was 15 and they got so much smarter over the next 10 years.

It is so hard. I'm sorry. Puberty was worse than colic, & I thought colic was awful!

The teens are the most interesting part of childhood, from a parent's point of view. Your daughter is still a child, but she's going to start expressing her own opinions - and if you listen and respect her right to have opinions of her own, you'll get a preview of the woman she's going to become.