What's the Matter with Kids Today?
Disrespectful children and adolescents, normal adolescent behavior/development, lousy parenting, criminal behavior, or mental illness? It is usually a law enforcement officer to make that initial assessment.
Part of growing up is learning to be independent. Normal adolescence includes challenging parents and authoritarians within limits. It also involves learning to say no, and make individual decisions. Let's face it, no one reading this article was a perfect child or teen. By learning healthy negotiation skills kids will not enter an unfriendly world as a victim of crime.
Remember to treat your children well; they eventually pick your nursing home.
