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When your teenager wants to quit something you've sacrificed for

I work two jobs to pay for my daughter's dance classes and she told me yesterday that she wants to quit and I exploded at her because I have given up everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent's financial and emotional investment in their child's dreams creates resentment when those dreams change.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adolescence and the parent-teen relationship?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.