we always end up the bad guy/gal !

((daggy))
jme, but let them eat up something else besides you. no matter what you do at this stage isn't going to be appreciated--heck, all it does is make 'em roll their eyes...
I have two grown kids, but when they were teens it was Hard.
The so-called tough love was my salvation so to speak. It was a challenge with my son more than with my daughter. I finally told my son that I would no longer take his crap, he'd better shape up but we could negotiate ...some things were not negotiable and I made that very clear. I was quivering inside with anger and with fear.
I didn't see him for two days. He called and wanted to come home and talk about it. It was the best we could do at the time, and we had our ups and downs.
He did come to realize that I wasn't being an itch with a capital B, but that I was concerned with the road he was on...

Take care of you, please.
Sometimes we have to let them fall on their arses before they accept we aren't the bad ones.

Take care of you, please. I repeated that because it is so important...
Cap