Reply to Having a bad night with the disrespectful teen

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Having a bad night with the disrespectful teen "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you over- reacted.  He was probably embarrassed in front of his friend.  I would’ve talked to him about it later explained you were concerned about safety but you also understand that likely embarrassed him.  I would state that he can be mad at you but he can’t be disrespectful. [/quote]

You embarrassed him in front of his friends. In teenage boy world, that is pretty much the worst thing you could have done.  [/quote]

NP. Jesus, who cares? Parents do not have to conform their behavior/parenting techniques to the extremely oversensitive emotional vagaries of teenagers. Flying a drone close to strangers' faces is not acceptable behavior. His supposed inability to understand that is either utter nonsense or he is an antisocial imbecile. He is behaving childishly and could have avoided a loss of face - if this is really such a concern - by not being such a baby about the whole thing.[/quote]

NP. You are missing the point. What OP is experiencing is a communication problem with her teen. They each are reacting to two totally different things that happened at the same time (and teen obviously is having trouble expressing it). When she realizes this, it will help her calm down and understand her teen better, which will allow her to not throw fuel on the fire, which she has done at least twice in this scenario already. The point is not that she should change how she handled the incident, but that she understand his reaction, so she isn't so stressed about it that she is nearly in tears herself.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics