12 year old Daughter witn emotional issues

[LittleOldLady]

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I know there are some well respected people here in the psychology field. I'm hoping for some advice on my 12 year old daughter.

Basically she has been a handful from the minute she was born. Labor was long a nd tough for my wife. The first night we brought her home we almost took her back [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]



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You can be sure that on some level, she knows that. Examine your own attitudes. DO you love her, but not like her? If so, she will sense that and act accordingly. There is nothing more devastating to a child when she/he gets the idea (rightly or wrongly), that he/she is far from her/his parents' notion of the ideal child.

I would recommend counseling sooner rather than later. This strikes me as more than the usual adolescent angst.