What do you do? When you feel your child is being more than strong willed? When you have tried ever single method anyone has taken the time to suggest. For the last few years I have tried it all. Time outs, punishments, grounding, taking stuff away, rewarding good behavior, yelling, directly asking what is the matter. Everything. I just can not get my 11 year old to listen to me. It started out with the eye rolling and sucking of the teeth. There were even the smart remarks under her breath. I have even tried not paying attention to those things and picking my battles as a parent. But nothing works. The day just ends with me crying, tired of putting on a happy face and a nonstop headache feeling like no one understands me or what I am going through. I try to understand why my child, who I love more than life, acts this way. So what do you do? I constantly feel like a horrible mother. It is like why can’t I get it? It feels like all I do is punish and take stuff away. And she acts like she does not care. I will say something. She ignores it. I say it again. She still ignores me. If she is like this now what will she be like when she is 13 or 16? I have never felt so emotionally exhausted with no where to turn. So what do you do? I feel like a little kid running to my husband saying, ok she is still not listening to me. She is making her brother and sisters cry. She is doing whatever she feels like doing. It is like everyone thinks I should have the answer but I don’t. So, what do I do?