Taryn my daughter just hit the teen years and I am pretty much going through the same Jekyll and Hyde stuff you are. I am pretty sure drugs are not an issue and I haven't even detected drinking but the mouthyness, the defiance not going to school daily showing no interest in things that were once the most important thing in the world to her. I don't expect her to ask me to join her and her friends at the mall but she has gone so far as to order me not to even talk to her friends when I drive them around because I am embarrassing. I find her behaviour not only difficult to deal with but hurtful and some days I don't know if I will be able to guide her through these teen years to the other side as a responsible,polite caring adult. I do suspect that the years of fighting and then the divorce and her father leaving and not seeing him for months at a time and then the forced move to a new school and town is playing a part in this behavior. Who knows maybe it is still playing a part in my responses to her behavior.

Christine

Christine