Reply #57: I'm not trying to be mean...

[catabryna]

I'm just saying... your daughter needs to take charge. I am not angry, I'm not lashing out at you or your daughter. Parenting is hard work, and sometimes you just have to take a hard line. I have son. My sister has five kids. Three daughters, two sons. Three of them are teenagers. She has had to deal with this in the past and I was living with her at the time. She let them badger her to death. I love my sister, and I love my nieces and nephews, I love them to pieces... but, when I tried to help, she really didn't want it. She just pretended to. I just don't want to see you used in the same way.

Please, take it in the spirit in which I mean it. :)

PS: Don't attack me as being "somewhat" "less progressive" because you don't like my opinion. That is not fair. I'm more progressive than my sister who was a Bush and McCain lover!