Anyone have teens that behave like this?

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I have 2 teenagers -14dd and 17ds. When they were younger I worked hard to make sure that they had nice table manners- used a knife and fork properly, cut up food properly etc. When they were on play dates people used to make comments about how polite they were and how nicely they ate. Fast forward to now and I feel like I’ve got 2 strangers in the house. Dd puts her knife in her mouth all the time and my son refuses to use a knife. They also used to speak nicely but both have got really really sloppy about how they speak. It really makes me wonder why I made such an effort to instil manners when both have them have regressed.

This has made me chuckle a lot! Thanks OP - although I realise that was not the original intention. We are exactly the same, 15 year old, ridiculously white, middle class child with gangsta accent.

I did laugh a lot when it was reported back that DD's best friend had called her dad her "bro" and he had a retorted very stiffly "I am not your bro, I am your father" 😂They are way posher than us and she is privately educated- it's everywhere!

Yes mine are like this! The text speak is even worse 😭 'Dat' and 'Den' 'nd'. It's like their speech has also regressed one of them now calls me "Ma"

This thread is bare funny! 😂

The thing that really riles me is they seem to have eradicated the word “to” from their vocabulary. Every time my two say “I’m going gym” I want to throw something at them!