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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both are 16, both go to the same school.  They've been going out for the past 3 months.  We've met the parents too.  We really don't like the girl.  Dresses like she has just rolled out of bad, poor grades, hasn't picked up a book probably since kindergarten.  Compared to DS' previous GF, she's a total loser.   Absolutely uninhibited, inserts herself in all conversations.  Parents are clueless or don't care.   Yet he sees her as funny and utterly helpless, wants to bring her to family functions.  How can we put a stop to this?[/quote]

They are 16! What's the big deal? When he asks her to marry her next month, it might be because you made such a huge issue out of it, because teens like nothing better than to pi** off their parents.[/quote]

I'll never forget when my nephew (who knew my sister HATED his GF) changed his facebook status to engaged to GF when he was 15 and left it that way for a week just to piss his mom off.  I really thought my sister was going to blow a freaking gasket the way she was carrying on.  It was pretty funny... to everyone other than my sister.[/quote]

I don't find that funny at all.  Obviously you don't have teens. [/quote]

I am not the last pp, but the one above.  I do have teens, and it is pretty funny to me.  You just have to shrug off teen behavior off, unless they are crashing cars, getting high, or other destructive behavior, they gauge what to do by how we as parents react.  They also respect you less when you go nuts.  But, if you are calm and keep your cool even when they scream at you, they will eventually realize that you can't be provoked, which is what they are going for.  That is how they assert their "independence" by making us parents dumb and overreactor, and unfortunately so many parents do just that.[/quote]

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