12 yo daughter. Seems like yesterday she was my baby girl. Now shes an emotional roller coaster. There is a good analogy I heard from her schoolmaster about ha

12 yo daughter. Seems like yesterday she was my baby girl. Now shes an emotional roller coaster. There is a good analogy I heard from her schoolmaster about handling kids her age. The swimming pool analogy. People in the swimming pool gets tired and comes to the side rails to catch their breath. When they're ready, they kick the walls to go back to the deeper end of the pool. The walls are us parents and when they kick us is when our kids go back to their friends to hang out and such. When they go to rest on the sides is my kid telling me about her day and all. Its just brief but I couldn't be any happier. The kicking part ranges from "your annoying stop talking to me" to completely ignoring and switching back to discord mode to talk to friends. It hurts quite a bit when they do that we even end up fighting. But after hearing this analogy I now know how to feel and react.