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Help! My Child is Pulling Away From Me
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ABC Life Matters Interview. It’s part of normal development that teenagers will pull away from their parents, but that doesn’t stop the sting when it happens. Particularly when it happens when they’re tweens, and it feels like only yesterday they were leaping into your lap with glee.
How can parents cope with this difficult phase of parenting? And why are some tweens and teens so mean?
Our guest is Michelle Mitchell, parenting educator and author of Tweens, what kids need now before the teenage years
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