Fed up with attitude

oldfort
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:12:19 +0000

There is a difference between understanding why they are behaving in such way vs allowing them to be rude. My kids also went through such period, not in their teens, but later. I am still dealing with it a bit with D2. I am the only parent at home for D2 now, so she tends to save her bad and ugly for me. I will call her out when she is being rude and inconsiderate. She is old enough now that she will apologize.
When D1 used to come home from college, I expected to be a good guest - make bed, have few meals with us, let us know when she was going to be home, help out around the house when necessary(set the table, clean up after dinner, and not leave her stuff around).