13 and independent....so she thinks

My sister had this problem with my nephew. She changed his school and how he is doing better. The first thing that he did was ditch school. Then ditched certain periods. Then he got in a fight and ran away. Then he ran away for a week! He's also 13. He ditched so much school my sister got fined! He was hanging with the wrong kids. The 1st of this month he started going to a different school. Made new friends....and it caught up in all his classes. Your daughters problem might be the school and the kids that go there. Now a days kids think they are so grown up because certain parents let their kids do whatever and the other kids follow. Anyway goodluck...with your daughter and hope everything works out!

A lot of changes in children occur for attention reasons. That, or something occured at school that made her feel like an outcast, so she began to act like one, opting for another lifestyle, which in turn gets her more attention. I'd try and think back to any arguements with friends, or anything that occured at home that could be the cause for the drastic change.

When I was having a lot of trouble with my 15 year. many many years ago I took her down to juvenile office. I was a single mom with four kids and she was running wild not into trouble yet but headed that way. I was lucky enough to run into a worker that told her I didn’t have to put up with her shenanigans It took the wind out of her sails and I could relax. She straightened right up.. You might not be so lucky as I was but you might get an officer to talk to her and let her know where she could be headed