I'm going to beat my daughter!

[Tonio]

Originally posted by Ken King
As far as her organizational skills, good freaking luck. College might not be the best thing for her just yet if you have these concerns. Maybe if she thought a short stint in the military would be a neat way to travel, learn a trade, see some interesting and exotic places, and make new friends. They can help with the organizational traits that she seems to be lacking. Wouldn’t you think that the changes in your boy are a testament to what military life can do? Get some material featuring some of those lean mean fighting machines and leave it lay around where she will run across it, it might catch her eye (any recruiter should be able to hook you up). Talk to the boy and see if he can’t tell his sister of some of the wonders.

Ken has a good idea, Vrai. Maybe the only way your daughter can learn those organizational traits is from someone outside the family.

Whenever I talk to other parents, EVERY mother of teenage girls swears up 'n' down that girls are harder to raise than boys. I haven't heard the daddies say this. Why? Many parenting experts and sociologists believe that girls are born with an adult-level emotional outlook. They conclude that mothers and daughters are destined to butt heads, because the daughter unconsciously believes that she, not the mother, is the female head of the household.

I think there may some validity to that, because almost every woman I know continues to have conflicts with her mother well into adulthood. My mother believed that my sister should have gotten married and had kids right out of high school, instead of pursuing a career in engineering. And my sister has always been a very mature, responsible person.

 

[Otter]

Re: The ball is in her court...

Originally posted by Larry Gude
It was MY fault. It was her moms fault. It was the other guys fault. It was JUST and accident. It's her fathers fault. Her brothers. The cat. The wall. I do it. Everyone does it.

Been there..you have my sympathy.

 

[huntr1]

Based on what I have read here, this sounds like a situation she could be in if she doesn't change her driving habits...

"During the preliminary investigation, Ms. Hewitt told officers she saw the police vehicle, but attempted to beat it through the intersection," Cpl. Bowman said.