That is awesome for your older daughter! She sounds like a great girl.
I was not more emotionally mature, and neither is my daughter. I think I seriously lagged emotionally. I had a big vocabulary and could grasp abstract concepts, but, I did socially inappropriate things for my age and felt awkward and uncomfortable a lot. I now see some of this in my daughter and it breaks my heart. I can't tell if she is trying to dumb herself down to blend in with her peers, or, if like me, she lives so much inside her own head that she misses the nuances and subtleties of her peers.
