Latest teenage rant thread.

[Nick]

 

[Darwins Selection]

Reverse the genders and it applies to boys too. I am the bad cop and Mrs Nick is the good cop. It has given us a lot of trouble 

That is how it works. When you have "Single parent" (how I hate that expression) households then there is no partner to leaven the mix. Thus Uncle will enjoy a reasonable relationship with daughters but Miss D will struggle.

Added to the normal problems you also have a whole generation of teachers and labour politicians (and labour aren't the only ones but they are the ones who have presided for the last 12 years) who specialise in telling children that they have rights, that parents are bad, that the state knows best etc etc.

I am not looking to start an argument about smacking but it didn't happen in my teen years and the only difference I can see is that children nowadays have acquired "rights" without learning about responsibility, nobody wallops them any more, not parents nor teachers. Discipline is the answer but how we get it back I have no idea.

Agree totally with this and your previous post. It is all basic animal hierarchical stuff, buggered about by society and daft rules.

Mort, I fear you my have late developers, enjoy the smooth ride while you can. 

[Uncle Mort]

Mort, I fear you my have late developers, enjoy the smooth ride while you can. 

Possibly ~ After all, I'm still waiting for my mid-life crisis.

[Nick]

We can help with that 

[Bar Wench]

Mort, I fear you my have late developers, enjoy the smooth ride while you can. 

Possibly ~ After all, I'm still waiting for my mid-life crisis.

I fear that is more than possibly the case. Brother Wench went off the rails at about 17 and then I went off them at about 21 and ended up living at home again. Was not good.

Miss D, would the Brat's Dad not take her for a couple of weeks? Perhaps the break would do the two of you good or is it not a terribly viable option?

[Miss Demeanour]

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

[Barman]

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

You're certainly not a failure... 

[Bar Wench]

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

I wouldn't look at it that way. Although I obviously have no idea what it is really like being a parent. I know at one point one of my friends moved in with us for a month because her Mum and her were at each other's throats all the time, it wasn't terribly healthy for either of them. Whilst it wasn't an easy decision for her Mum to make she decided that if she didn't do it she was going to ruin the relationship irrevocably.

As to whether she would go or not, don't give her the choice. She goes or she loses everything. Pocket money, laptop, tv, bedroom door. Alternatively can you not go elsewhere and her Dad move in if she is refusing to go anywhere or is that too icky?

[Pirate]

I have a spare side of the bed

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

I wouldn't look at it that way. Although I obviously have no idea what it is really like being a parent. I know at one point one of my friends moved in with us for a month because her Mum and her were at each other's throats all the time, it wasn't terribly healthy for either of them. Whilst it wasn't an easy decision for her Mum to make she decided that if she didn't do it she was going to ruin the relationship irrevocably.

As to whether she would go or not, don't give her the choice. She goes or she loses everything. Pocket money, laptop, tv, bedroom door. Alternatively can you not go elsewhere and her Dad move in if she is refusing to go anywhere or is that too icky?

I have a spare side of a bed 

[Bar Wench]

I have a spare side of the bed

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

I wouldn't look at it that way. Although I obviously have no idea what it is really like being a parent. I know at one point one of my friends moved in with us for a month because her Mum and her were at each other's throats all the time, it wasn't terribly healthy for either of them. Whilst it wasn't an easy decision for her Mum to make she decided that if she didn't do it she was going to ruin the relationship irrevocably.

As to whether she would go or not, don't give her the choice. She goes or she loses everything. Pocket money, laptop, tv, bedroom door. Alternatively can you not go elsewhere and her Dad move in if she is refusing to go anywhere or is that too icky?

I have a spare side of a bed 

Now that is too icky!

[Miss Demeanour]

Made me laugh though 

[Pirate]

Thought it might be

I have a spare side of the bed

He would be willing to help out without question - not sure she would go though .

Hand on heart now it also would make me feel like a failure in that I can't cope .

I wouldn't look at it that way. Although I obviously have no idea what it is really like being a parent. I know at one point one of my friends moved in with us for a month because her Mum and her were at each other's throats all the time, it wasn't terribly healthy for either of them. Whilst it wasn't an easy decision for her Mum to make she decided that if she didn't do it she was going to ruin the relationship irrevocably.

As to whether she would go or not, don't give her the choice. She goes or she loses everything. Pocket money, laptop, tv, bedroom door. Alternatively can you not go elsewhere and her Dad move in if she is refusing to go anywhere or is that too icky?

I have a spare side of a bed 

Now that is too icky!

Thought it might be

[Pirate]

Made me laugh though 

You sounded as if you needed cheering up

[Miss Demeanour]

Would be too icky for her dad to stay at mine

We will have a chat tonight - hopefully a lot calmer but yes agreed sanctions have to be imposed if no improvement

[Bar Wench]

I can't imagine how difficult it must be.