Helping your daughter deal with her first crush

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When she reaches puberty, one of the most common emotional experiences she goes through is a passionate attachment to either a real or a fantasy individual. Watch a group of young girls listening or talking about their favourite pop star and you can’t miss the fact that their feelings are very deeply involved.

 However, this doesn’t mean that every young person has crushes: Some escape them altogether and may worry that they don’t, just as those who have a crush worry that they are odd in some way. There’s nothing wrong with a young person who get crushes, nor with one who doesn’t. Both are normal, they just respond to their emotional developmental changes differently.