Meyerson just admits writing " Living with Teenagers"

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I feel very sorry for her children.

The "Living with Teenagers" column seriously made me question whether I even wanted to have children. The kids seemed so spoiled and precocious, and the parents just seemed so self-absorbed and ineffectual.

Hopefully the kids will write "Mommy dearest" style expose novels about their parents as revenge

Living with Teenagers was foul. It was worse than car crash tv. I don't know why the Guardian carried it on for so long. I was stunned when they had the farewell to it and people wrote in praise of it.

I felt old before my time with my head shaking at the awfulness of it!

link to the guardian article

Anybody else shocked about the fact those bloddy parents were buying their 13 yr old cannabis despite the drugs problems in their family, so that he wouldn't go out to buy skunk?? And that stopped him from graduating onto skunk how exactly??? .

If he'd been my kid and doing weed at that age, he'd have in the middle of the bloody highlands living in a shepherd's hut for a year, not bloody sitting at home smoking the drugs his parents had bought him.

Weirdos

It seems to me that one of the main factors keeping teenagers safe- now as it was in my day- is a sense of loyalty towards their family, an experience of mutual trust. Not much of that in the present case evidently, if you're happy to make money laying their foibles open to the reading public. Mommy dearest novels is the least they can do in retaliation.

She reminds me of my MIL's neighbour, whose dd was one of the most spoiled and difficult teenagers MIL had ever come across. But it did occasionally occur to both of us to wonder why the Mum was spending so much of her time ranting about her to the neighbours instead of doing something about it. Whatever that was about, it was certainly not about the girl as a person.