In June, one.
Well, when you have finished raising a perfect daughter who has no issues whatsoever—an accomplished, confident, competent young woman of flawless social grace who is entirely without doubts, worries, faults, neuroses, problems, or errors—get back to me and I’ll congratulate you for being a perfect parent. But if you are just commencing the task of being parent to a teenage girl, you might think of reserving judgment. It’s a harder row to hoe than you might think, especially when you discover how very much peers and society influence the thinking of young women.
Personally I’m just glad my daughter and I both survived her teenage years. I’m enormously proud of her now. But I also know that fighting off the effects of the wider society was an exhausting, nonstop task. And once the girls are 18, all bets are off; they have the legal right to ruin their lives if they want to.