Who's got moody teenagers?

[Robb]

:P

My wakeboard instructor's daughter (16) is having some mood swing issues. It's complicated by the fact she's used to giving her mom a hard time about not paying enough attention to her when she's dating someone -- according to mom, it's a common pattern -- but she clearly (the daughter, if I've lost the antecedent) likes spending time around me.

I think she's confused because she lost the number-one manipulation tool she had on her mom (the guilt trip thing) because she digs me and we spend a lot of time all of us out together.

Or do I have no freakin' idea? :D

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Two words:

Automobile antenna.

--bkl
(Yes, of course, :) -- do you think I'm that sick?)

[baldguy]

2. "moody teenager" is a redundancy

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. I've got a moody teenager, but not for the same reason.

You are right, that we mom's usually get the brunt of the guilt tripping and mistreatment at this stage.

I think perhaps there is good in that you spend time with her. At this age young women really thrive with male or fatherly support. She's going to flip flop back and forth with her mom because that's just the way it is, until the hormones settle down. I'm still waiting for my hormones to settle down...but it'll happen.

You're a good guy, Robb.

[Robb]

11. Thanks for the kind word, MrsG

...I'm undertaking the task of teaching her about food, and how to cook. It's the one thing I wish I knew how to do earlier, I'd be a wealthy man now had I cooked instead of headed out to eat through school. :)

[trigz]

4. Well, no teenager anymore, but I'm a moody 28 year old :-) (nt)

[TX-RAT]

5. Who doesn't

When mine turned 14 her head turned a 360.
She's 30 now. They get over it.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Even when they turn 20

they're still moody. My older girl turned 21 last weekand she's still swinging from pleasant to bitchy at the drop of a hat. Needless to say the younger one - almost 18 - is driving me up a wall.

When does it stop? Do they EVER regain sanity?

[XNASA]

7. We do but they are currently behaving themselves.

Our older, soon to be 17 y.o., went to College Night at his school last night. We were shocked.

It's complicated being young, if you remember.

[hunter]

8. aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrghghgh.... gasp, gasp.... aaaaaarrrrrrghghghg!

I have boys. They are wonderful. But they are making me old. Until now I had no idea what I put my parents through as a teenager.

A few weeks ago I was parked in front of the high school yelling at my son, and he was yelling back, and then bam! **horrible** flashback to 1973, except this time I was sitting in the driver's seat.

[FunBobbyMucha]

9. Adolescence should come with a free copy of "Disintegration."

The Cure can balm everything.

Be careful that the affection for you doesn't take a Jan & Dean curve towards the inappropriate. Fatherless girls (I'm assuming here about her) get the Daddy thing and the hormone thing tangled sometimes.

[flamingyouth]

10. Is there any other kind?

I defined "moody" as a teenager, personally. :D