Teens Today

Tonight a neighbor came over after work to talk because she was ticked-off about something that happened at work. Her teen daughter came over and did not speak when she came in. Part of me wants to think she's just a rude teen, but I have a feeling that she doesn't like that her mother comes often to my house, especially when I'm home. My neighbor doesn't come to see me, but visits with my mother. Most of the time, if I'm home when she visits, I'm in my library, but will occasionally go sit and join the conversation. I know that my neighbor has been having trouble with her daughter's too-grown-for-her-britches attitude, so I don't say anything. Why are young people these days so rude and destructive? They are spoiled rotten, given too much and do very little, and have such bad attitudes. My teen nieces stayed here two nights. Neither took out the over-ran kitchen trash that they helped generate or touched the broom. They are constantly on the house phone and cell phones. And what's with the whispering. When they speak to each other they talk too loud or they whisper like they don't want me to hear what they are saying. Why can't they whisper all the time, because I don't want to hear anything they say to each other? When I was a kid, I had hand me downs and had to deal with my major issue alone. But I wasn't rude or disrespectful or distructive. I'm glad my nieces seem to be pass their disrespectful stage, at least when they're in my house. I think they learned their lesson when I banned them from visiting. They disrespected Mom, and I wouldn't stand for that and told them they couldn't come back until they changed their attitude. Now one or the other and sometimes both will come over when they get bored at home. Like there's something exciting going on here. But they get the livingroom, the tv, and the phone. When they're here, I feel better, noise and all, because I know where they are -- home.