Nice Teens

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Keep reading about all these moody teens here, anyone got any nice ones who are polite and cooperative?

I had a great relationship with my parents, but they were easy going an open with me. I could wear what I liked, when started smoking it was like well OK we wished you wouldn't but as you are you might as well do so at home, friends were made welcome.

Of course there were no nos, but I respected these - most of the time

Non of my friends were horrible (not that I can recall) to their parents, they challenged their parents and had moods with them but it is not as if it was constant war

I teach 270 different teeenagers per week, of those approx 260 are delightful, interesting and good fun. The remaining 10 .....
Of my own teenagers, the oldest is charming, amusing, great with his little brothers, sporty, but has had quite a few "moments" that no parent wants to have to go through. The next one was a total pain at school all through Y9, we moved him and he is now model son - helpful at home, doing fab at school etc.

Friday 21st Jan my DD aged 15 came home tipsy and fell into a shrub into the front garden. Obviously in serious trouble next day. Early hours of 23rd Jan had to help me, unsuccessfully, attempt to do CPR on her darling dad. Since then she has been incredibly brave and loving. Teenagers have their moments but mine is pure gold.

i have 3 teen boys who are fab. yes they have challenging days, but less than i remember having! I think we sometimes expect teens to be a lot more together and organised than they are. I think we also tend to expect more from them than they can give, just because they are tall and hairy doesn't mean to say they are adults and shouldn't be expected to be. they still need boundaries guidelines and parenting balanced with some freedom and support. Maybe we should stop calling them young adults and go back to calling them children, which they are.

I must admit, my DD is good 90% of the time. She's very studious, seems to have matured a bit recently and is doing housework without being asked. Her friends are ok....one's a bit of a drama queen but not too bad otherwise.

I know she's chatting to boys on ye old Facebook and they all look like chavs at this age which is worrying for me!

But all in all, I really hope things don't go downhill! I can just about cope with this......

Just posted about DS on another thread. But both DD's are great ( 13 and 17 ). They do have their moments but nothing awful and I can cope with them. DS on the other hand! Same parents/parenting but what a difference and I do think it has to do with temperament. I'm glad we don't have just DS or I'd be feeling something of a failure right now!