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Parenting & Pregnancy > Tweens & Pre-Teens How to cope with adolescent behavior

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Parenting an adolescent is like giving birth and going through the baby years all over again, except that now the stakes are higher. Giving birth is scary, painful, and unpredictable; waking up one day to find your child in full-blown puberty is no less so. Giving birth is a physical tearing away of your own flesh and blood; going through adolescence is an emotional cleaving, a long, drawn-out process of separation. Emotional pain can be much more difficult to bear than physical pain, and takes longer to heal. When our kids are newborns, babies, and toddlers, they challenge us with sleeple...

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