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The Inside Story on Teen Girls
Experts answer parents'questions

Excerpt from Chapter 1
Why Is She So Difficult to Deal With? Understanding and Communicating With Adolescent Girls

DOES A TEENAGE GIRL HAVE TO REBEL? CAN IT BE PREVENTED, OR IS IT UNAVOIDABLE? DOES THERE HAVE TO BE FRICTION BETWEEN ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND THEIR PARENTS?
— ---Michelle P.

It's a myth that teen girls must fight with their parents for them to have a successful passage into adulthood. While popular culture depicts and highlights a great deal of turmoil between teen girls and their parents, particularly their mothers, extreme rebellion is rare. So, try not to label your daughter's healthy push to have a reasonable degree of independence as "rebelling."

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