Steve Firth wrote:
Andy Hall wrote:

On 2007-10-08 10:42:47 +0100, Stuart Noble
said:

IME if teenagers behave like 5 year olds it's because at 5 they weren't
allowed to behave like teenagers.
That's profound....

Indeed and very true. My wife's a psychologist, and as she says when we
see some teenager having a strop with their parents "Oh look, another
badly behaved parent." Parents mostly blame other people, usually the
child, but mostly it's the parent at fault when things break down.

Parents do the best they can given that most of them have other burning
issues to deal with at that time in their lives, but they do seem to
make hard work of it all. Children only want your time, and don't much
care how you spend it together, but the parents get bored. They want "fun".