Since my is only 8 she isn't that bad....YET!
She does have this .....idea that everything has to be her way and she is always right. Last night we were playing cards and I was trying to show her an easy way to add th epoints up and she burst into this argument with about how the hard way is easier than the easy way...Is it just that she's female???? Venting because it agravates me evcery timr it happens.

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Originally posted by devilsplay:
Since my is only 8 she isn't that bad....YET!
She does have this .....idea that everything has to be her way and she is always right. Last night we were playing cards and I was trying to show her an easy way to add th epoints up and she burst into this argument with about how the hard way is easier than the easy way...Is it just that she's female???? Venting because it agravates me evcery timr it happens.

Daughters come in a variety of models, and there are good point to having one who is willing to voice an opinion. It means that you will never have to guess what she is thinking, and that can save you a lot of grief further down the road. Of course, some of that road is going to be rocky. You need to let her make some mistakes.

Oh I always know what is on her mind alright!!
It's hard to tell if her outbursts are because she's fustrated or due to her diabetes. If her sugar runs high then her anger gets elevated. I try not to be the "heavy " on her, if that makes sense? Sometimes it's just fustrating...but that's fatherhood!

Wait till she's 20. My 20 year old threw a tantrum last week. I told her if she ever pulled that again I knock her on her ass. Her boyfriend laughed. He's a saint. My next oldest daughter did her tantruming between 10-14. Now she's a completely, unbelieveabley pleasnt kid. They're all different.

Jon

I didn't have much trouble with my daughter until she went to college and decided to loaf. We had a couple of "stress sessions" and she got back to work. Now, at 41, she earns well into to six figures and really has her act together.

My brother had an extended rough time with two of his daughters. The older one (38) is doing fine now, the middle one (29) is also squared away and happy, but the young one (26) is still a mess and had to spend a few months in the "pokey" to get started on the path to good behavior.

Guys - I just have two sons. But, I am now the proud father of two very exceptional daughters-in-law. I think they are wonderful girls and they really bring out the best in my sons. But, I don't know what they might have been like growing up in their own homes. I suppose their parents think my boys are saints too, but I know better!

My older brother has 3 daughters, the oldest of which is in her early 30s and is a mess. Mean, bitter and making such poor life choices that once again she's living with her parents. Thinks it's everybody else fault though. His two younger daughters are both married and wonderful people. It has really been hard on him to watch the oldest girl go down this path.

So, who knows? I guess as men we aren't intended to understand the intricate mindset and moods of the female species. Be they 8 or be they 80!

Hey - I have three daughters and all of them at one time or another are like you describe. I think it is a girl thing. There temprement and attitude is near impossible to read and invariably something that you said yesterday will be seen as offesnsive and hurtful today where it wasn't yesterday. But what can you do but love them?