So my wife and daughter are having it out.

[DrYouth]

My daughter is almost 15 and she is going through her "attitude" phase.

My wife never went through an attitude phase as a teenager, because her parents were too authoritarian and she tried to please them.

So this has been a real gong show for the last month.

My daughter has been hanging around the house, because she is basically a loner right now... picking fights with her mom... who is slowly descending into a form of madness.

Oh well... good thing I have lots of connections in the mental health field if push comes to shove.

And... luckily I have a unique form of optimism based on seeing much worse scenarios every day of my working life.

Puts things into perspective.

[Montegriffo]

My daughter is almost 15 and she is going through her "attitude" phase.

My wife never went through an attitude phase as a teenager, because her parents were too authoritarian and she tried to please them.

So this has been a real gong show for the last month.

My daughter has been hanging around the house, because she is basically a loner right now... picking fights with her mom... who is slowly descending into a form of madness.

Oh well... good thing I have lots of connections in the mental health field if push comes to shove.

And... luckily I have a unique form of optimism based on seeing much worse scenarios every day of my working life.

Puts things into perspective.

Can't you just sedate the pair of them with drugs for a quiet life?

[DrYouth]

Can't you just sedate the pair of them with drugs for a quiet life?

Hmmmmmmmm......

[Martin Hash]

The one positive aspect of passive-aggressive rebellion is that it’s invisible & silent (but worse).

[DrYouth]

The one positive aspect of passive-aggressive rebellion is that it’s invisible & silent (but worse).

The weird thing is that they are both rebelling.
The daughter against the mother and the mother against her passive nurturing role...
It's messy.

[Speaker to Animals]

So did you slip trazadone in their Thai food last night?

[DrYouth]

So did you slip trazadone in their Thai food last night?

I probably should have...

[TheReal_ND]

My daughter is almost 15 and she is going through her "attitude" phase.

My wife never went through an attitude phase as a teenager, because her parents were too authoritarian and she tried to please them.

So this has been a real gong show for the last month.

My daughter has been hanging around the house, because she is basically a loner right now... picking fights with her mom... who is slowly descending into a form of madness.

Oh well... good thing I have lots of connections in the mental health field if push comes to shove.

And... luckily I have a unique form of optimism based on seeing much worse scenarios every day of my working life.

Puts things into perspective.

Yo dog. You just need to boss up on these hoes.

[DrYouth]

Yo dog. You just need to boss up on these hoes.

It's like watching a combat sport.

[Hastur]

My daughter is almost 15 and she is going through her "attitude" phase.

My wife never went through an attitude phase as a teenager, because her parents were too authoritarian and she tried to please them.

So this has been a real gong show for the last month.

My daughter has been hanging around the house, because she is basically a loner right now... picking fights with her mom... who is slowly descending into a form of madness.

Oh well... good thing I have lots of connections in the mental health field if push comes to shove.

And... luckily I have a unique form of optimism based on seeing much worse scenarios every day of my working life.

Puts things into perspective.

I've been going through something similar and is just about to come out on the other side by the looks of things. (Knock on wood)
Hikikomori/NEET/Hemmasittare(swe), call it what you want. We appear to have nipped it in the butt. We were lucky to have some close friends who's going through it and could offer advice, great school personnel who handled it with expertise and proper counselling provided by our municipality health care. She's been attending school without problems and is meeting friends in person regularly now since the beginning of the semester. We keep our fingers crossed. She has a lot of catching up to do.
And I used to scoff at people with older offspring when they told me. "Small children - small problems. Big children - big problems."