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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post sounds like it was written by a bored teen.  Yes it's been a long summer but school is almost starting.  Have you done your summer reading yet?

I can't imagine an actual parent posting something like this and yes, I have two teens.[/quote]

What about the post makes you think a bored teen wrote it? I'm the mother of four children, one happens to be a teen in high school. Of my four children one is constantly pushing my buttons. What about that says "bored teen" to you? And yes, I do feel he's a raging asshat, I can say that here to vent. He's rude and generally inconsiderate. He isn't a criminal, does not drink, does not do drugs, he does play three sports but is very lazy about practicing even though he thinks he carries the teams and has potential to play D1 college sports. I'm extremely frustrated with him and we are 100% in a power struggle. He's just an unkind person and expects us do to things for him because we are the "parents" and he is the "kid" or his excuse is he only a teen yet he throws how he's so responsible in my face 45 times a day. I'm just sick of it and I'd truly rather have triplet toddlers than a teen son right now.

Again, what about this says "bored teen" to you?[/quote]

Because no parent could possibly think that taking away things like sports practices and instruments and books could possibly be a good idea.  Too many things just don't ring true.  By 16 a kid would likely already have been recruited for D1 sports, especially if he is "carrying the team" so either he has or he hasn't at this point.  What says bored teen to me is a kid (or maybe kids) trying to stir up parents on this site.  Seems to be working.

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A 16 year old is either a 10th or 11th grader and is certainly most not recruited to play D1 sports, sorry, you have no idea what you are talking about. My child wants to play D1, I did not day he was recruited to play. I also stated that my child feels he carries the team in his own mind, and that he is not humble, I did not say that he in reality carries the team, because he does not carry the team in any way. Did you read anything I wrote? And yes, when a child is disrespectful and rude then taking away sports is indeed a valid punishment. Allowing a child to continue playing the sport they love while abusing a parent verbally proves what? It proves the child can walk all over the parent and still continue to do as he or she pleases. Sports are a privilege not a right, in my house you do not get to enjoy sports if you are calling me "asshole" and behaving like a buffoon. I am not sure how that is poor parenting. As far as instruments, yes, it's summer, not school, so taking away a guitar or drum set is indeed a punishment. I also am not being punished my keeping a belligerent child at home, the child is punished. I am still not seeing your point. Isn't parenting about setting limits and teaching children respect? [/quote]

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