General Chat

steph i agree not all the younger generation are like some are considerate.i can honestly say i have met alot of older people who are as rude as anybody else.if they do not have manners then what hope do the kids havexxxxx(:

Thank you very much for all of your replies! i understand all your views and opinions, i apologise for being over sensitive you know what im like, love you all loads xxxxx

Just as not all 'old' people are not miserable and grumpy, so all teenagers are not bad mannered, rude and out of control. All the teenagers I know personally are lovely - but they have lovely parents. I have come across some horrors in town, no doubt they have been brought up to do as they like. We can't all be the same and we know you are a very nice person Steedy. Incidentally 50 years ago, I was in a hurry to get into a phone box (remember them) and brushed against a women in my hurry. she grabbed me and said 'Manners maketh man.... AND women you know!' And I was such a mouse too. So nothing has changed in peoples' perceptions. Ann Glos

Steedie, You are an angel, and don't let it get to you if people moan about other teenagers. If they were all like you, the world would be a much better place! Love, CB >|< XX

Steedie you are wonderful and you can be one of my teenagers any day. I have a 15 year old daughter who is also wonderful and no trouble at all. My son in his teens got into all sorts of scraps but the one thing people always said was how polite he was to everyone. That is how he is now bringing up hhis 2 sons, one of them a teenager. And Daisy...... I know just what you mean!! Help! Jacky xx

Steph it's much easier to moan about the kids than it is too praise them. I spent two days lastt week on here doing nothing but moan about them, then after a day out they was wonderful. I felt awful so i post an apology to them. I agree with you though, you shouldn't tar people with the same brush!!!

Hi I have two 'teenagers'. J (19) who is at Oxford studying Computer Science. T (13) who is at 'a special' school due to his learning disabilities. Just goes to show that ALL teenagers are different....Be it though Genetic, Social or Aquired 'problems' or just because thats the way they are!! Chris

'We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.' .E x :o))

Hi Steph. I had 4 out of my 5 daughter's at one time in there teens all at the same time. The eldest at 19 while the 2nd youngest was 13. I love them all dearly, but only had one bathroom. Can you imagine. LOL Although, grown girls/ladies now with some having there own children. I added to Louise A-Z of Teenagers but only in jest. I love my girls. Cheers. Tony Oz

Steedie just joshing girl my teenagers were all of the things on the a to z but I was the worst of all so I was saying those a to z's in jest love if I really thought that I wouldn't say it on here I'd be a grumpy old girl who peers through her curtains and wingers all day about what the local teenager are doing ,hang on a minute theres those awful teenagers again out the front of my house I'll just get the hose LOL , Laraine

Steedie Its tradition for 'Oldies' to moan about young people. Im 38 now, and when I was a teenager, 'Oldies' were moaning about my generation. (alough I amongst many was always polite and considerate) Im sure when my parents were teenagers in the fifties, 'Oldies' were moaning about the youth of the day. When you get older, no doubt some of your generation will become the 'oldies' that moan about teenagers. Be proud of who you are, do your best and dont consider yourself to be bad because you are a teenager. Elaine x

Steedie - you are so right! I would never dream of 'slagging off' teenagers. I went on a course last year where most of the participants were gap-year students, and they were the loveliest bunch of people. I have to say that on the (rare) occasions I have seen someone being rude, pushing in a queue etc., they have been of the older generation!

Hi Steedie! Teenagers are no different from adults really - Adults can be moody, unreasonable, unsociable, cantankerous, nasty individuals that lie, cheat, get stroppy, fight, get drunk and misbehave - BUT they don't ALL do it! And neither are teenagers all the same - it just can seem that way when you are living with some of them! LOL I have been very lucky with mine and miss them dreadfully now that they have left home. We always had a house full of their friends - who quite honestly - if I had seen them coming towards me in a gang and not known them - I would have crossed the road to avoid them! What matters is to realise that every generation despairs of and moans about the next! LOL - It's a sad fact of life but very true - You wait - In 20 years time you will know exactly what I mean! LOL Don't take these things to heart! Love Auntie Mags xxxx

You're LOVELY!!! My brother is about to turn 16 and he is a credit to my parents and himself. He is polite, sensitive, independent and so wise for such a young person! Yes there are troublesome teenagers out there but (am going to be controversial here) I think those causing the most trouble are the twentysomethings who go out on the weekends, get paraletic, vomit everywhere, damage property and then pass out in the street! Becx (22)

Steedie..... Mummy Pink knows you is a good girl really.... but I am fairly sure your Ma would have a comment or two to add to that thread.... it doesn't stop her loving you, just we all like a whinge and we all remember what it's like to be that age!! :O) Now stop fretting and consider yourself HUGGED!!

Hi Steph, I love teenagers, that's why I choose to work with them. They are lively, opinionated and sometimes very loud but always full of hope for the future. There are as many nasty older people as nasty teenagers. My generation came in for the same criticism. Ignore the grumpy old men and women. Kidz rool OK Gwynne

Thanks guys! I just wanna scream sometimes that we are not all the same! dont get me wrong though, my fella is a right pain to his parents, so is his bro and sis, i find it shocking with what they get away with...my mum would throw me off the balcony if i tried it lol! xx

Steph Personally I find my 54 year old husband more of a pain than my teenagers! I think he's reliving all the ghastly bits! lol Daisyt

I love teenagers!!! i have always found youngsters to be very polite, i have a 16 year old grand-daughter and she is sooooo lovley, she keeps,me up to date with alsorts she's friendly,polite and not ashamed to be seen with her old nan (i am 53) thats very old to her lol but she loves me!!! love Helenxx Steedie i think you are lovely!!! teenager or not!!xxxx

Steph, we don't think of you that way. Bear in mind we have all been (and many of us still are) Teenagers, even if our bodies suggest we may not be. Unfortunately the few who cause the trouble are so much 'In your face' that it has received a bad rep. I am sure nobody means to condemn all the apples in the barrel just because 1 or 2 are rotten.