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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to put him in his place. Being in gifted classes means nothing, having high IQ means nothing, till you put in some hard work to make something out of yourself. You are not teaching him what really matters in life , which is hard work and respect. When I read posts like this it makes my blood boil. [/quote]

Why would it make your blood boil?[/quote]

Because It is unacceptable for a child to be so disrespectful towards a parent, teenager or not.[/quote]

Study a bit more about child development. 
It's true they should have limits and consequences for the nasty remarks but the snark is part of growing up.[/quote]
Snark may be a part of growing up but the limits of what is acceptable in the snark department are set by society.

I was as rebellious and as angsty at my parents as any other teenager.  However, the upper limit of what I could say to my parents would be something along the lines of "you don't understand me" or "you only like me if I'm XXXX".   I cannot in the wildest dream imagine me ever talking to my parents like OP's son.  I mean, it's just something alien, like a Martian. [b] I would be dumbfounded to learn that there are children in the world that speak to their parents like this.[/b]  In the completely unfathomable case I WOULD utter something like this,  I would not have been able to sit, or quite possibly, stand for two weeks.  [b]Parents are worshipped where I grew up[/b]; not always liked or obeyed but never outwardly disrespected. [/quote]

Welcome to America.  I'm so very glad my kids and I are born and raised in the USA where we have different - healthier- expectations.[/quote]
No society has perfect parenting models.  If you think showing disrespect to your parents is a healthy expectation, then have your onions and I'll have mine.  We'll take what we wish from the American parenting model, but not the tolerance for disrespect to your parents.  That is unacceptable to us, and that is the expectation we are happy to keep, and make our children embrace. [/quote]

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