So…my 16 year old daughter and I are leaning against the counter, hanging out in the kitchen late last night, and chit-chatting. She was motor mouthing about school, friends, boys, and such. Then she gets off on a tangent about how she notices the lack of simple human common courtesy in kids these days; the impoliteness, lack of consideration, poor manners and such. The more she talks about it more agitated about it she is becoming, then:
“Man! It really pisses me off that a lot of teenagers act like selfish spoiled 5 years olds.”
I kinda glance over at my next youngest daughter sitting at the dining room table putting a puzzle together. She does one of these
as my oldest is finishing with her rant.
After the oldest finishes, I put in my 2 cents about today’s common courtesy. Then, I look at my second oldest doing the puzzle and say “Did you hear the language your sister used? She tentatively nods.
My oldest is looking on questioningly “What? What did I say?”
I explained and indicated at startled me slightly because that is the first time I’ve heard that kind of language from her - EVER. Her face turns several shades of red and she profusely apologizes.
“Hey, last week temp drivers license, this week coarse language, next week new bra size – your growing up babe. Oh, and by the way, stop taking my razor and using it for your legs, that pisses me off.” >wink<
