Many parents would agree that their child’s teenage years are harder to cope with than all the sleepless nights when they were a baby, or the tantrums they threw when they went through the “terrible twos” phase. There’s something monumentally frustrating about a child who is not yet an adult refusing to listen to your advice, follow the rules and stay out of trouble. A lot of the time you feel that level of frustration because you know only too well what being a teenager was like, and the regrets you may have from when you were that age. Why can teenagers be so difficult to live with, and what’s the best way to live with a teenager and getting through this tricky transitional phase? Teenagers aren’t a separate species! Teens are people from all different walks of life and in all different situations that just happen to be aged between thirteen and nineteen. That’s the only thing many of them have in common, so to tar them all with the same brush would be very unfair. Many teens are studious, polite, hardworking and a pleasure to be around, and generalizing about them is as mistaken as generalizing about any…