My 16 year old just won’t listen. Refused school. Refused therapy. We adopted her from foster care. She thinks she can just drag whoever and whenever in our home. Every time we try to punish her, it gets miserable. It’s to the point I pray that in her stupidity she doesn’t come home. I don’t know what to do anymore.
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a lot of kids with rough upbringings have “behavior issues” (i didn’t know how else to word it that’s why it’s in quotation marks and i know nothing about her past)but she also is very much just being a teenager. teens don’t listen, teens hate school, teens don’t wanna do stuff and that’s normal. maybe instead of “punishing” her you could ask if there’s anything going on or that she’d wanna talk about and to reassure her your someone she can go to. she may not know how to deal with her emotions and what she’s feeling. maybe take a pause on pushing therapy and give it a week or 2 after you guys talk and then bring it up again. but i promise you most of what your describing is normal teenager shit