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Dial Down the Drama
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Dial Down the Drama

by Colleen O'Grady
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 14m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 9

How to Discipline Your Teenage Daughter

It was ten o’clock on what had been a long Friday. Deborah told her twelve-year-old daughter, Rebecca, to clean her room and go to bed. She was done being the “mom” and ready to relax. After taking a hot bath, Deborah picked up her current book and got into bed.

Five minutes later, Rebecca started slamming doors. She didn’t want to go to bed and the last thing she wanted to do was clean her room. When Deborah called, “Go to bed now!” her daughter stormed into her mom’s room and started complaining, “You never spend time with me. You don’t care about me. All you care about is a clean house.” Deborah’s ...

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