Tweens... so much fun.

Great. My step-daughter is 11. We only get her every other weekend...which can be bad or good.

I imagine it can, Marilyn. It doesn't seem like -that- long ago when I was that age, but lord, I just can't relate. It doesn't matter what I do, I'm just "NOT COOL!"

Better you than me! Good luck

My son will be thirteen in August. He is doing everything that you describe. And no I have no idea what the heck to do with him~ I am already nuts and he just got home an hour and a half ago. If I figure it out you will be the first to know!

Karen

Mine is 14 and it just gets worse honey! I think there should be a place we can send them for the summertime! Good luck with it!

Best advice I have is don't let things get out of control or it will be more difficult later down the road when she is a teenager. I do think part of it could be a phase she is going through, but at the same time she needs to understand that with age comes more responsibility and making decisions that will prove beneficial to her life instead of the opposite.

Just try to spend quality time with her, talk to her and be her friend, not assuming the parental role unless the situation calls for that. Ask her if there are any activities that she would like to or that interest her, maybe take a class together or set aside a day where you and her go do something that she wants to go do. It was different when we were that age and I am sure my mother couldn't relate either, but she did try to stay as involved as possible with me and what was going on in my life.

You can't be talking about my sweetheart Raegan! lol
Auntie M

My youngest is 11 and just finished 5th grade.....hormonal? she's already started her cycles so yeah..... Jasmine spends a lot of time drawing and chatting on the computer about anime....at night she reads.

They do get testy in t tweens stage. My tween thinks he is all big and bad sometimes and cross whatever boundries he wants. I need to step on his attitude sometimes and remind him that he still needs to respect the people in the house.

It just gets worse. I have a 13 and 14 year old. Two times the fun. lol

Try to spend more time with her, and even with her friends. If her friends think you are cool, than it is easy for her to think you are even "somewhat" cool.

I do this with my daughter. She is 13 and we joke around with her friends a lot, invite them over all the time, take them shopping....and when we go shopping they want to shop with me, not go off on their own....even though I tell them they can.

So it is small things that start to add up to the big things....

Send her to grandmas for a few days or her aunt, since she thinks it cute. LOL j/k I still have a while before I know much about this. Good luck Heather and Nick.

It's a phase we all went through at one point in time... just remember, in 5 more years, she'll be in college. There's also this thing called revenge... she will have kids one day and they will drive her bonkers, as you are sitting back, gulping down martinis.

My daughter is 12 and just finished 6th grade as well. She too is very hormonal. I'm planning to spend some quality time with her. If that fails I have bookmarked some military schools...lol.

Nope, no idea...lol. Wasn't long ago I was a tween...and even I can't tell you. xD

Mine is 18.

Hang on tight. You're in for one hell of a ride.

It does eventually get better, note i said eventually.

Tween girls are what my blog is all about! Raising them, entertaining them and trying not to kill them! If you have google as your home page, I suggest you set- up an igoogle home page with an alert for "tweens" or "Preteens". Every day you will get an email of all kinds of parenting, blog and ideas in the news for managing and relating to your tweens. Great resource!

AND visit my blog www.gogoglugunfun.com

It's all about bonding with tweens to navigate our crazy world

VOLUNTEER. I can't stress it enough.
It has really helped A LOT with mine.
Don't know why but at that 'tween age they start to get some sort of sense of entitlement, thinking they should have anything and everything they want.
By volunteering and being involved with those who are less fortunate, they get to see just how fortunate they really are with what they have.
We did/still do serve meals at soup kitchens, visit senior centers, and collect/box up food for the food pantry. We used to do the humane society, too when we lived closer. All winter my daughters and I have shoveled some elderly folks driveways for them.
I wish my parents would have done these sort of things with me.

You know how some teens and 'tweens get destructive with property?
Part of that is because they don't realize the HARD WORK that was put into getting/maintaining that property.
That was me, way back when. I had NO clue.
I wanted to make sure that didn't happen with mine....
Volunteer with them and you won't be sorry.