Teenagers...

[ummmm]

Were you a good teenager? Bad teenager?

I thought I sailed through my teenage years...(I think)

Waking my son up in the morning is painful. Enough to put me in bad form. I woke him at half 9 and he's still getting ready to do a paper round....A PAPER ROUND!!!!!

He has two jobs, which is good, but how do they not hear the alarm???

[Sqad]

I was a wonderful...WONDERFUL teenager and i have continued in that trend throughout my life..........so that is your first question dealt with.

\\\I woke him at half 9 and he's still getting ready to do a paper round....A PAPER ROUND!!!!! \\\

Unacceptable behaviour in the old days....I did a paper round for 7 years before going to Uni.....started at 6.30 am.

[Kiki-frog]

I was a miserable, vain, self-obsessed little piece of sh1te. Now, however, I am perfect. Although I still can't get out of bed in the morning.

[anneasquith]

sqad, that was in '' the good old days'' :)

[Sqad]

anne....LOL....certainly was........

[B00]

I still think it's unacceptable. If im paying for a service of a newspaper in the morning, that's when I expect it.

Can't help on the teenager front, I think they're all repugnant until they reach at least 20 :-)

[jno]

we didn't do teenage trauma in my day. Somewhere along the line it's become accepted as normal, but it wasn't.

[Smowball]

I was a really good teenager, I hope! Went to school, never got in trouble, did my homework.

Teen smow - in last 2 weeks has 'lost' a brand new Ipod Touch somewhere in the house and cannot find it anywhere, and 'broken' his laptop screen but has no idea how or why!? And seems to forget every single day to do the only 2 things he is meant to do ie feed cats and unload/load dishwasher but remembers to text/call every single person he likes!

[tonyav]

I was a bad teenager, I also had a paper round when I was about 13 didn't keep it long though.

[B00]

jno raises a very good point?

When exactly did it change from teens behaving like every one else to them having a "stage" and the rest of us accepting it as part of their "growing up" phase?

[rowanwitch]

I was an angst ridden depressive wierdo who swanned around in black with odd coloured hair and read books on the occult I reckon I'd've fit right in with some of todays teens...

[aelmpvw]

the alarm is the signal to put the pillow over your head

[tiggerblue10]

I was good and bad. I had a Saturday job at my dads cafe from around 13 and then from 15 I worked in my uncles dry cleaners. I was always late!

I was a moody teenager and was always arguing with my parents, and then I started working when I was 17 with the Immigration Service (now UKBA) and been with them ever since.

I still argue with my parents so no change there.

[Sqad]

\\\\jno raises a very good point? \\\

I agree.

In my opinion it seemed to change in the late 1950's.........don't know why?

[ummmm]

In my sons defence...

He has two paper rounds, 7 days a week, and also works at my uncles pub 4 nights a week.

Its just the moody attitude in the morning...

[Smowball]

My friends reckons it changed when parents were not allowed to give their teenagers a clip round the ear!

[Sqad]

Smowball....excellent point.......

[divegirl]

I was pretty good till I hit 16 as I helped to raise my younger brother after my mum left us when I was 16. Then my Dad moved the step mother from hell in and I lost it...moved out [read was asked to leave] at 17.

My own two... Number one son...not too bad, lazy as a house brick though and the bitch child as she is affectionately known is....erm....no comment.
Actually, I'm quite sad about her today, I've taken a rare day off to spend some time with her and she's still in bed :0(

Lisa x

[tonyav]

Maybe smow, but saying that I have had clips round the ears of teachers, coppers and my parents and it didn't make much difference.

[Smowball]

Thankyou Sqad : )

[LoftyLottie]

I was a well behaved teenager at home, but my parents were modern and not too exacting. I kept my teenage/early twenties antics away from family. My son was no problem, but again what he got up to in his late teens was kept away from family life.

Waking my son up was always painful, like his mother he doesn't like mornings!!