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Raising Tweens

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I am finding that I am faced with new challenges everyday.  I try my hardest to empathize with my children and their plights and also with my friends that are raising children.  I have lot's of friends who are just starting their families and they speak of these terrible twos and trying threes and all those other toddler behaviours that can try a parent's patience.  I wish I could have those days back again, I really do.  Raising tweens and teenagers is a challenge  that I am not enjoying.  My tween and I I love my child and he's a good kid, he's polite, he's caring and he's funny.  I don't always get his humour but he is a funny child.  He does not cause me grief at home, it's a challenge to get him to do his school work sometimes, but he's smart and does his homework most of the time without me having to harrass him.  The troubles I am having are from outside variables.  He came to me this morning and told me that he's been feeling...