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re: Dealing with Teenage daughters
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:32 pm to Rev Bob Levy Sucks
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:32 pm to Rev Bob Levy Sucks
You have kids?
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Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:33 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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17 year old daughter
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she graduated HS last weekend and thinks she can run the roads
Should have held her back, baw.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:33 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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Called my wife and me tonight asking if she could crash with her friend and the friend’s bf. Both over 18. Idea shot down by both wife and me and my daughter proceeds to argue and demand a reason.
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Any of you dads feel free to give advice.
Not sure of the exact circumstances leading to her graduating at 17 (as in not sure whether she just has a late birthday or graduated early) but I assume she’s almost 18. She graduated. If she goes off to college (or enlists, again not sure of your exact situation) she’ll be on her own anyway and won’t have to ask for permission.
I personally think it’s counterproductive to continue treating sons & daughters as children when they’re living at home, but have already finished high school. In my experience - speaking mostly about friends of mine when I was a freshman in college - those kids often overcompensate as soon as they’re “free.”
If she’s telling you the truth about where she’s going and who will be there, I think at some point you have to trust that you did a good job raising her and she’ll make good decisions.
But that’s just my opinion and there’s rarely a right or wrong way to be a parent.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:36 pm to BluegrassCardinal
If your kids don’t hate you , you aren’t doing a good job of parenting.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:36 pm to BluegrassCardinal
If you do not want to pinch your kids heads off, you are not spending enough time with them!
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:36 pm to BluegrassCardinal
I have a 12 year old daughter. Mom and I are divorced. Mom has a new boyfriend. He has been around for about six months. Of course he gets to be the new cool guy in her life while I have to be the parent. So two weeks ago I am having to enforce some rules and I get the “I wish Mr. X was here”. Still cuts me deeply weeks later.
This post was edited on 5/28/24 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:37 pm to BluegrassCardinal
My daughter turns 9 in 3 weeks, she's going to be a teenager before me and her mom can blink.
She's a really good kid. Let's hope it stays that way
She's a really good kid. Let's hope it stays that way
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:39 pm to Gaston
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Life would be absolutely unreal if he were he’s supposed to be this time next year (enrolled in college and on the FB team). He’s just not mature enough.
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by Gaston
Your kid plays football? Man that’s awesome, we had no idea. What kind of car does he drive?
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:39 pm to mba1620
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I am having to enforce some rules and I get the “I wish Mr. X was here”.
Tell her Mr. X hasn't been buying you shite for 11 and half years and Mr. X can get bent
This post was edited on 5/28/24 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:40 pm to lnomm34
Luckily my 5 yo hasn’t said that to me yet.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:40 pm to LaBR4
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Tell her Mr. X hasn't been buying her shite for 11 and half years and Mr. X can get bent
Just pay legally required support and then let her hang with Mr. X
You save money and time
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:41 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Sounds like y’all have been extremely strict. A High School graduate home by 11?
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:41 pm to lostinbr
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I personally think it’s counterproductive to continue treating sons & daughters as children when they’re living at home, but have already finished high school. In my experience - speaking mostly about friends of mine when I was a freshman in college - those kids often overcompensate as soon as they’re “free.” If she’s telling you the truth about where she’s going and who will be there, I think at some point you have to trust that you did a good job raising her and she’ll make good decisions. But that’s just my opinion and there’s rarely a right or wrong way to be a parent.
Whenever I “did the right thing” in high school/college situations, the internal driver was not wanting the betray the trust my mom placed in me by giving me a lot of freedom.
Had I not had that internal voice, I probably would have caused a lot more trouble. But none of these things are universal. Maybe OP’s daughter has done a lot already to lose her parents’ trust.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:42 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Mine once told me she wished I would get hit by a car.
Now, she's great. Lol
Now, she's great. Lol
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:43 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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Great, my 17 year old daughter told me she hates me.
Nothing is perfect, and nothing is permanent.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:43 pm to MBclass83
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Mine once told me she wished I would get hit by a car.
How stupid
. Atleast if you get hit by an 18 wheeler, she'd get some money, too.
This post was edited on 5/28/24 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:44 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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she graduated HS last weekend and thinks she can run the roads. Called my wife and me tonight asking if she could crash with her friend and the friend’s bf. Both over 18. Idea shot down by both wife and me and my daughter proceeds to argue and demand a reason.
You seem like a helicopter parent. She is basically an adult give her some leeway.
Hell i was coming home at 1 am in 10th grade from high school parties. Graduated high school? Hell I could do whatever I wanted by then
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:44 pm to BluegrassCardinal
isn't it kind of weird to have a curfew on someone who has graduated high school?
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:45 pm to deltaland
If he is still paying bills I think he has some leverage there, but yeah need to loosen the reigns a bit.
Posted on 5/28/24 at 8:45 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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Called my wife and me tonight asking if she could crash with her friend and the friend’s bf. Both over 18.
good call, guarantee there were going to be more than three people there, I.e. she had a hookup set up
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