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Putting up with messy, angsty teens

Showing your prickly adolescents support, care and understanding may be a way of investing in their future mental health

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Jill Lim

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The other day, I woke the youngest of my three daughters, the 12-year-old, earlier than usual for school, but later than she had wanted.
And her first words were: "Why are you waking me up only now?"
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