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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Some of you are a joke. My kids listened to everything when the were little. Wait until they are 16. God, you sound stupid.
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I totally agree.  Our kids were raised with defined limits, appropriate and consistent discipline, etc.  Once they hit puberty, things changed.  They were annoying as fuck but all 'normal'.  The rigidity on this thread is more frightening than some minor teen attitude.[/quote]
Yes, but if your teen said you he was smarter than you, that you were lazy, would you just say, "oh, it's normal teen angst" and shrug it off?  IMO, this isn't minor teen attitude.  The "I hate you, you're the worst parent in the world" statement, I get, but some of what OP's teen has stated doesn't seem like the "normal" teen attitude.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to.  I'm guessing you have little experience with teenagers.  It's totally typical. I don't give a rat's ass if/when my teens said they were smarter than me or if I were lazy. Sometimes I AM lazy and I hope they do make more money than me and DH combined.  That doesn't mean they don't have to study or that they get out of doing something I've asked them to do.  Our expectations of them are clear.  I don't care if they tantrum when required to do work, the work still gets done.  I don't need them to demonstrate model deportment after being told what to do, I just need them to do it.  I don't allow personal attacks (and telling me I'm lazy or that they're smarter than me is not a personal attack) nor do I allow any of them to bully another.  You can get all bent out of shape about it but it doesn't work me up. They're little different than toddlers in many ways and as they re-mature and re-learn that tantrums aren't rewarded, they get better.

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+1. OP's kid has more sophisticated insults than your average 14-year-old (He's gifted, after all!), but its still just a tantrum. And recognizing that fact isn't the same thing as shrugging it off, its just informative of how to reach to it.[/quote]

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