Dear Ms. Mabel, I think I remember reading in one of your columns that you had three or four boys. I’m currently raising two right now and I just have one question: when does common sense kick in? My husband and I are both fairly intelligent and reasonably successful people with expectations that our sons will be the same. I love those boys more than anything and I’m just starting to wonder if we’ve gone about this all wrong. They still REALLY lack any common sense. Help! I can’t send them out into the world like this. Perplexed parent, Portland, TN
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Dear Ms. Mabel, I’m at my wits end with my daughter. For the first 9 years of her life she was the easiest child to raise. She was reasonable, kind, and just an all around great kid. Some kind of switch flipped a few months ago, and she’s completely changed. She’s constantly annoyed with me, and every word out of her mouth is either dismissive or disrespectful. I thought I had raised her better than this. She’s barely 10 years old— not even a teenager yet! Where did I go wrong? How do I fix this? Thanks, Mother of a Sassy Pre-Teen White House, TN
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