"Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou, Romeo?"

My youngest daughter is about to turn 14, and she's definitely going through "teen angst..." Oh, you just wish you could fast forward through all of the hard stuff, but it's all part of the process.... There are boys that do like her, but of course, they are not the ones she's interested in. I've tried to tell her what took me years to learn, that it's the guys that choose the girls, and not the other way around. But she's not having it. She likes this one guy, and he's interested in another girl. And she can be real nice or play hard to get, but in the end, if he's not interested, he's not interested. She's buying all the teen magazines, and reading all the stories that recycle in these magazines through the years about "How to get a guy" but I just keep saying, be yourself and someone will come along. Like most of us, she's impatient. She thinks if she buys the special jeans, or the special makeup or has the special hair, that they will become interested. I wish it were that simple... I've tried to give her my other sage advice, to always make sure he loves dogs and watch how he treats his mother, because it shows if a guy respects women, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I guess she'll have to graduate from the "School of Hard Knocks" --

Just like me....