boxofdelights

How admirably honest and reflective she is!

Also, the fact that you and she can have this conversation now illustrates how successful you've been as a parent in, I don't seem to have a good word for this, but not dragging out the "power-over" interactions any more than necessary, so that your daughter can take this comment from you in a similar way to how she'd take it from a teacher or good friend, without being fraught with reprimand and defensiveness.

I might make a comment like that now to our M (she's 26), but I probably wouldn't have been able to when she was 20-ish.