Teenagers

"Awight dawlin'? Can I have you for this evening if give you a fiver?"

"Why has the babysitter cancelled on your mum?"

I'd reached the end of the road before they worked out what I'd said. It wasn't even the best comeback.

When someone told me about this yesterday I thought it was a joke. How do under-12s not hear it, anyway?

"The traditional methods of dispersal were not working"

What are these traditional methods?

I figure it could cause more aggressive behaviour in some cases. If the YOBBOES know the shop guy is trying to stop them loitering outside they might get even more lairy and smash the windows.

was thinking about teenagers when a hs classmate of mine posted a pic of her 13 year old kid with the caption "stop growing up so fast!"
i was 13 when i met her, and to think that one of our moms would have publicly published a school pic with that caption -- i would have literally died of embarrassment. i'm sure kids today feel differently, right? i have no idea. are 13 year olds cool with that these days?

i sure do see a lot of photos with parents and kids (well, moms and daughters, tbh) where they're cheek-to-cheek at a high school football game, and the caption is something like BFF!

I don't know what's happening anymore.

x-post- Some kids are not FB friends with their parents and do not see that stuff. While they might be embarrassed by it, as long as their friends don't see it, they can probably ignore it.

between the caption, the photo itself, and having known the mom when we were 13 i still can't help it -- i'm appalled on the daughter's behalf! if my mom had the impulse to do that i would have been furious. my real first thought when i saw it was that if my mom posted that i would want to grow up ASAP so she would stop telling me to stop growing up so fast. too late, already there! that clearly says more about my oppositional nature than it does about the actual thing that happened though.

I don't know your situation so I do not mean to diminish it. But I do not think it is that unusual for parents of 13-year-olds to wish their young teens were still younger and not growing up. I am not saying this was ok, just that it is fairly normal I think (says this parent of a kid now older than 13). I think many kids would dismiss this with an eye-roll; or if really mad, would quickly vent at the parent and to friends and then move on to more important things

Every adult in my life has been saying that to every child in my life since I was a child, iirc. Variations on, "You better put a brick on her head [to keep her from growing any more]" were common.

Maybe this is worse bc you remember how she would have felt about that at 13 and now she's become that mom! But in general I think it's p norm?

Yeah I think I grew up under more public scrutiny than anyone I knew at the time so I have a weird and deeply ingrained viewpoint when it comes to public/private and parental relationships. When people (never my parents) told me to stop growing up (or noted how much I had grown with a sense of sadness) all I could imagine was a living hell in which I was a puny child forever and never got to make any decisions for myself, permanently stuck like a pet or something. I realize that it is quite normal for ppl to say this, and my disgust is compounded by this particular woman and her use of her kids as props for her skin care products (she makes the boy pose for before/after photos to show how well her natural skin care products took care of his acne)

Anyway it's really weird to see people I only knew when I was a teenager (ppl I went to hs with and basically never saw again) have their own teenagers and what cliches they latch onto. It's interesting I guess.

this particular woman and her use of her kids as props for her skin care products (she makes the boy pose for before/after photos to show how well her natural skin care products took care of his acne)

That's quite the extra element to this already embarrassing story. Maybe "They grow so fast!" is the 832th most-cringe inducing action this woman has taken against her kids.

could be. she is also into some weird precious metal thing you're supposed to place under your pillow for sound sleep or something? she's really pass-agg about her snake oil sales.

Yeah I think I grew up under more public scrutiny than anyone I knew at the time so I have a weird and deeply ingrained viewpoint when it comes to public/private and parental relationships. When people (never my parents) told me to stop growing up (or noted how much I had grown with a sense of sadness) all I could imagine was a living hell in which I was a puny child forever and never got to make any decisions for myself, permanently stuck like a pet or something. I realize that it is quite normal for ppl to say this, and my disgust is compounded by this particular woman and her use of her kids as props for her skin care products (she makes the boy pose for before/after photos to show how well her natural skin care products took care of his acne)

Anyway it's really weird to see people I only knew when I was a teenager (ppl I went to hs with and basically never saw again) have their own teenagers and what cliches they latch onto. It's interesting I guess.