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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a huge fan girl, and only learned about her back in April or so.  Guess what, I have three teenagers and I SOOOO related with her virtual schooling posts from last spring.  It was a cluster F and my teens were exactly like hers.  My 2020 Senior would have also tried to skip out on the graduation ceremony.  Instead his was canceled entirely and we had a five minute graduation in our back yard.

Maybe you have really young kids, but I found her very relatable in the six months since I've read her posts.  [/quote]

Mom of teen and tween here. Yes the last 6 months have been hard, but I still push to teach my kids to be respectful. It's bad enough she condones disrespect, but she celebrates it and makes it charming. She is teaching them the rules don't apply to them. And...on her coattails they might not. She may be able to employ them down the line. However, they got plenty of followers on her coattails and then suddenly were upset when it became intrusive as the parents marriage fell apart. In adulthood if their own way of supporting themselves is social media that won't fly. In the real world of jobs, you have to suck it up even when you are bored or annoyed and mommy isn't going to be able to put a cute spin about every job you get fired from due to a tude.[/quote]

The charmingly disrespectful teenager trope only seems to work if you are white and upper-middle class. [/quote]

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