attitude!

That sure make me mad, too! I really get mad whenever I call my son and he ignores me. I mean, what is he trying to prove in doing that? Being disappointed with such actions, I sometimes go up my room and cry coz it hurts a lot. I hope these kids realize how much they can hurt their parents just by ignoring them.

mae_ais I am a father, and what I think about discipline and respect starts at home. I think that girl is not right in the way she conduct herself, however most parents does not realized she is the product of their actions. When it was time for them to get tough on her, they did not and when she start to rebel, honesty I do not think there is anything we can do but hope she can return to better ways.

hi, attitude of a person is very important because that will reflect you,so when a person really have a bad attitude they are arrogant and sometimes stubborn too,that is why parents and teachers at school should develop and mold them to have a good attitudes.

That is definitely true, most of the teens nowadays are growing without any manners and respect for the elder, sad but true. I am a mom myself and I would see to it that my son will grow up with respect for all the elders.

That's so mean. And that kind of attitude shouldn't be let go just like that. It's sad to say that most of today's teens have very little regard for their parents, much less for any other elderly people. Back when I was a teen (about 10 years ago, lol!), this kind of attitude is shunned upon by everyone. Nobody encourages this and my own friends will even stay away from me if they learned that I did something like that to my own parent. It's so sad that good old values are no longer being uphold by most teenagers nowadays.

It is a sad fact that many teens are into such attitudes nowadays.. We, however, also have to consider many factors around such behaviors. Take, for instance, how the parent might have been treating the child? Personally, if i were a child raised with love and warmth and regard for other people's feelings, would I be treating my mother that way? It is also possible that she developed such behavior around peers. Do her friends reinforce her more than her family does? Do they affirm her more than her family? I believe that there's always a cause. Yup, I guess I'd flare up should my kids do that to me, but at the same time, that should also make me reflect, right?