And now, some motherly advice from Michele. It sounds like good advice, no??:
A two word message to anyone who has a daughter that has yet to approach the teenage years:
BOARDING SCHOOL.
Send her when she approaches eleven. Take her back at eighteen, just in time to send her away to college.
Either that, or I suggest earplugs and vodka.
I always promised myself that I'd have a child when I could figure out how to have one that would be born eighteen years old and three days away from leaving for college- on the East Coast....