Sick of vile, rude teenagers

You do realise that the human brain doesn't fully mature until around 25?

And yet teens manage to behave in societies where there is discipline and consequence. That's how brain maturing happens.

I wish people would stop saying that though. It was one study that was badly and simplistically reported at the time. 25 isn't a magic number, it was just the age cut off point for the study subjects.

Do you think they sound well brought up, though? My friends and I weren’t like this at their age. Sounds like they’ve been raised to think they don’t owe anyone basic respect.

You do realise that the human brain doesn't fully mature until around 25?

Those kids may not have been behaving appropriately but there's a fair chance most of them will grow up and out of it and become reasonably decent adults.

Not getting the reference to leaching off the state. They were kids right?

I grew up poor, I know it's not pleasant, and I know the behaviour you're talking about. It's childish and stupid

But I've also experience shit from other kids in different circumstances - far more unpleasant and mean spirited, but just not hanging out on a park bench

there's a difference with being pissed off at stupid kids, and saying that theyre losers who come from benefits and looking down at them, op

They were being unruly and disrespectful at a ve day celebration - that's kids, regardless of class!

I've edited as I had to reread the op to see what they'd actually done. Kids are annoying but these ones don't seem like losers.

Agree with you. Well done for saying something. I came across some like this at the cinema a while ago. They were sat behind us in a half empty cinema and were making stupid noises and comments the whole through the film. I politely asked them to stop a couple of times and then finally threatened them with getting the manager, at which point they left. They were so rude and disrespectful and I can’t actually remember what happened in the film, it was stressing me out so much.
I also felt pretty vulnerable as a lone female in charge of 3 kids (2 mine plus one friend). But I had to say something to them - if only to show my kids that rudeness and disrespect shouldn’t be tolerated.

Wow

I was with you in your op, until you started punching down and making comments about benefits

Awful teens are everywhere, and exist in all social classes 😄 - rich teens are just as unpleasant and entitled - i dread all teens as I'm not at my ideal body weight and I know they're probably making fun. Teens can be obnoxious and have terrible taste in music. But that's as far as my opinion goes really

I, an adult, wouldn't refer to a kid who may or may not have a parent on benefits, a loser. It's not in me

You work in crime - you are terrifying. You're someone who's supposed to be protecting the community but you look down on it?

Disgusting and unreasonable.

And so have a number of pps.

Someone always joins a running thread on here and heroically states "I'm going to go against the grain here and stand up for the downtrodden" <hands on hips, superhero stance>...and then says what numerous people have already said 🙄 😂

Just speaking up in defence of teenagers. They're not all feral, rude, abusive and "vile". Some are. Just the same as some adults are vile and rude.

I have a 16 year old and he's not vile and none of his friends are either. I have also been working in a school this week with 15/16/17 year olds sitting their exams and the kids I have encountered in the school have all been very polite and friendly to me.

I immediately saw that it was a typo and you meant ‘wind’. Pretty thick if anyone actually thought you meant that your daughter took WINE 🙄🙄🙄

They vape instead, a lot easier to hide the smell.

I work in a secondary school. The majority of children are lovely. But there is an element that isn’t and a much smaller element that scare me.

Unemployable little clowns, no one will put up with them when they get into the workplace and they will likely spend their lives on benefits
Parents are probably the same

To be honest, it depends how much it was bothering me. If it really was then like most people a polite ‘would you mind if’ does tend to be more effective.

If you take it upon yourself to be meddlesome and rude then others won’t respond well: that stands true whether the recipient is fourteen or forty.

But lecturing and taking it upon yourself to be bossy and self important in the way described by the OP is never going to be particularly effective.

So what do you suggest then?
So much for the village.

You think wrong, as mine are aged four and not quite two. So not really old enough to hang around without me.

But lecturing and taking it upon yourself to be bossy and self important in the way described by the OP is never going to be particularly effective. To be honest, half the time people do look for so called feral youths in order to confirm to themselves the world has gone to the dogs. Not sure why. Our local Facebook group is full of it.

Think we've found one of the parents.

I have to ask 'AusBoundDD' have you seen these kids when they're out and about and don't know they're being watched, because quite honestly a lot of kids behave like the OP has described, when they're out of sight of their parents, albeit they might behave while at home and in school.