More on teenagers

Trying to raise a teenager is hard. Trying to raise a teenager that is not yours is even harder. My daughter, married a man with children.
Brandon is 20, and in college, pretty much a normal 20 year old thinks his father is made of money and should share with him but other than that a fairly pleasant person to be around.
Breana is 16, highly intelligent and does not have to put much effort into being a high B student. Spent last year hating her father and doing all that she could to try and ruin her life. the gist of last year ended up being juvenile hall, probation, and being shipped off to relatives in the country.
This year she is in an alternative school, dating a felon, and playing games at home.
Not being related to this teenager it makes it much easier to see, the way she tries and succeeds at manipulating others, myself included. They can look and sound so innocent and it only takes a nano second to be sucked in. Right now she is grounded for not being able to make it home on time. Has an excuse every time but just can't make it in the door. Seems to me it is a power play, just has to push the envelope every time. If this was an episode of "Dog Whisperer" it would be about who is the alpha dog. Hmmm, Maybe we should have Cesar Milan come by.
More on this to come.
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