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Ok so as you know I have two teenage girls and a preteen boy. My younger of the two girls is only thirteen and is in the beginning stages of puberty, lord help me. Now I have one teen girl who is dating and dealing with peer pressure, and trying to get good grades for college, and of course she is dealing with the emotional issues of being not only a teenager but a teenage girl, which personally I believe to be a major feat to over come. Now I have my other daughter who is just starting this crazy hormonal stuff and any of you who have girls in the beginning of puberty know that the can be awful wicked things at this stage. Attitudes are flying everywhere and emotions are so unstable that they can be laughing and having fun one minute then they are crying about school to suddenly crying over their favorite shirt not being clean. It’s a tough time in everyone’s life when a girl hits puberty. I remember how emotional it can be as a girl but geeze I had no idea I put my mom through all of this and even apologized to her recently because I genuinely feel bad and can’t believe she survived me. Now I have to learn to deal with the emotional roller coasters and I may have a little more experience being Bipolar because I know all about the up’s and down’s of a roller coaster ride. I just kind of go with the flow and take the punches as they come. I know that she doesn’t mean the hateful things she says and I know she just wants someone to put their arm around her when she is crying. I even know she just wants to be understood when she is screaming because something didn’t go right. So my big answer is “do you want to talk about it?” or “So are you feeling —-? How can I help?” Don’t get me wrong I still get frustrated and we still have our full blown yelling matches where I want to shake her but I try to breath and remember not only did I go through the same thing but this too shall pass.

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