
Parenting Teenagers (12-18) Support Group
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of teenagers (12 to 18 year olds). The major areas of child development include: physical development, perception and sensory development, communication and language development, cognitive development, emotional development and social development.

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It started about 2 weeks ago when she turned 18 yrs old. Just over nite my daughter slipped away from me right in front of my face. She has this friend which this girl has her own apt and now my daughter dont want to home or even talk much with us. Its breaking mine and my husband heart, It feels like someone just stabbed us in the heart and ripped it out. I know shes got to make her own decisions but its hard to just let go and we dont know how to deal with it. How do you let go of someone thats been in your arms since the first day you had them and love so very much? How do I walk past her bedroom and dont hear her playing music or own the computer? I just dont know what to do it just hurts so bad.
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Give her some time to figure out what she wants out of life, and be there for her when she is ready to talk.
It was devastatingly hard to let him go but it was necessary.
he and i are so much alike we can't live together..
now we are the best of friends we talk all the time but it took quite a while to get to that point.
give it time is all i can say
I am enclosing the poem below that has helped me remember that as much as we love our children, eventually they do fly away.
I hope it helps! Good luck
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."
By Kahlil Gibran