Dear Meghan: I am the mother of two teenage daughters, and their personalities couldn’t be further apart. The youngest is a freshman at a private school, is active in cheerleading and gymnastics and has a busy social life. The eldest is a junior at the public alternative high school, and she was accepted to a competitive art program offered by the district, so she splits her class time. Her personality leans toward the moody, artsy type, and last year I worked to get her an antianxiety prescription, which she takes inconsistently. Her doctor recommended counseling, but that didn’t seem to take either.
