More on girls' relationships

The relationship between parents and their daughters can either be one of great stress and anguish throughout your daughter’s teenage years or it can be one of growing respect and developing friendship, as you both move from the parent- child relationship to the more sophisticated relationship of parent – adult. Watching your daughter blossoming into a young adult, who has her own feelings, thoughts, actions and moral code, is both terrifying and exciting to a parent, but it is important to let her fly and to trust her. At the core of all relationships, especially the parent/daughter one is open and honest communication. It is crucial to keep the channels of communication open at all times with the aim of developing a long term relationship based on mutual trust.