I really hate you. Just ask the Lifetime Onliner who calls herself Motormom. Here are some answers from our experts, including similarly harried Lifetime Online parents. Don't take your teenager's outbursts personally.
Adolescents ride an emotional roller coaster, fueled by their raging and ever-changing hormones.
Most likely, your child's angry words have very little to do with anything you've said or done. Typically, the way they do that is to try to be as unlike the people who are close to them as possible. That means their parents. Give your teen plenty of space. She can't easily recognize or admit to herself that her parents have her best interests at heart, because then she wouldn't be able to break away.