Nasty Children

my kids are going to hate me because im going to expect them to conduct themselves like decent human beings, not monkeys.

it usually is because of the parents, honestly. you see it a LOT here in israel. that means its all the more important for me to teach my children from tots that insolence will NOT be tolerated.

i cant believe the things kids get away with now, or even when i was in middle school. society should be ashamed. x.x

Yeah...teenagers/younger kids kind of suck sometimes.

I'm not really done being raised yet (haha) but while I wasn't raised with yes ma'am, no ma'am, etc., I was still disciplined well and I know to respect people, etc. It just bothers me that some preteens - I've had most of my problems with preteens, actually - dislike me because of my "weirdness". It makes me sad that originality is disliked.

@Minnie ~ None taken at all :-D

@Courtney ~ It is quite saddening that it's classed as 'weird' or 'different', but as long as we're all happy doing it the others might come around one day and realise what they're missing hehe.

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that's lame. really.
but there are nice teenagers! (me!)
so don't listen to the bad ones. i don't, works fine for me.

For me, I've always had a feeling that the gene pool could use a little chlorine... ;)

In all honesty, little sh*ts like that just make me want to smack them upside of that head and tell them to grow up. Thing is, I have three kids, one aged 12, one 11 and one 5. My eldest two, Jade and Becky are both lovely, they really are. Yeah, they have their moments but they'd never dream of telling me to f*** off like I was a while ago by a FOUR year old. People just either don't seem to care or don't have time for their own kids these days.

It's a pity you had to come across that but these days, it's a case of growing a thick skin and ignoring them. Unfortunately there's no cure for stupidity.

I can definitely see where you are coming from. I may not be brave enough to wear a skirt in general, but I know how it feels to be given crap from others for no reason. I would just try to be positive and just remind yourself that hardly anyone has even the most basic sewing skills anymore :/

i think you skirt is fab ! you should wear it with you head held high

i havent long moved to a small town in nsw the kids here in most cases are lovely (maybe because everyone knows who they and their parents are !) when i 1st moved here i remember walking up the street and a group of lads were swaggering towards me and i though "oh here we go" but as they pass one smiled and said "morin" another said "hey hows it going' i was shocked and taken back
It made me think about that sometimes young people have this label on them and then have to prove other wise or maybe even live up to it.

not that this had any relation to your original post sounds like the boy next door and his mother need some sort of help

Grr, the minority of teenagers and kids that behave like that are so infuriating! I used to live close to one girl who was about 14 who called me 'Fat ass' (when I was 14 I wouldn't have had anything like the guts to say that to someone older than me - besides the fact I was only a UK14/US10) and made fun of my sister for being spotty and ugly (which she really isn't) so much that she started bunking off school. When we went to talk to her mum about it her answer was "well, she has a point". If kids are being raised to treat other people like that then you really can't take what they say personally - they're probably so insecure they'll criticise people whether or not there's anything to criticise. I just feel bad for the majority of kids and teenagers who are actually decent people.

And Minnie - I've just joined your blog having seen your tutorials for a pillowcase skirt and a tablecloth skirt and trust me, they really don't look like they've been made out a pillowcase or a tablecloth. They're brilliant!

always celebrate your unique and creative nature. chavs are little orange clones who think there something but in a few years time they will be in the same place taunting the sucsessfull. I think your skirt sounds amazing and there just jealous there not clever enough to make such wonderful creations. I was bullied by chavs for my first year of highschool and I hated it so I moved to a school and realised the importance of being around people who embrace individuality. I never gave up my identity when I was being picked on by chavs and neither should you. always be yourself and ignore there taunts.

Some people are scared to whoop their kids asses. Neighbors, and schools will call child protective services over nothing.
Some people are just horrible parents and need to be punched in the face. My sister in law is one. Her son is 18 now, and thinks its funny to tell people he'll kill them. He say hurtful things to people and God forbid if you say something back. The little brat will even tell his mom on you. He's 18! When I was 18, and he was 13 he would say all sorts of nasty things to me and my roommate, and I never told his mom on him, mostly because she would do nothing. I would just say something back, and ask him how he likes it.

I propose doing/saying something back, and then asking them how they like it.
He hits your fence with a stone. Crack the back of his head open with a stone.

I'm 15 and I was bought up with manners if I was naughty i didnt get encouraged I got balled at but now when my school report comes through and they say what great behaviour I have I know that Its because my parents cared about me. I learned to respect my elders behave and be polite and those little chavs are just urghhhh jerks. There parents may not care where they are but when they bother others its just wrong. My parents are proud to say I know where my children are ! and I dont threaten or intimidate anybod. I dont come from a posh town infact its crawling with chavs but I learned the importance of identity and those chavs can stick there abuse up there over sized , arogent , fake tanned arses !

i had a co worker who was only a year older than me, she has a two year old child who frankly scares the crap out of me. i have the scarest feeling that he's going to grow up and be a serial killer. he has one of those small dodger bats and swings it about. when he's in public he grabs things and throws them, hits his mother and yells and screams. but what gets under my skin the most is people look at him and say how cute he is. now, i dont think thats cute. infact, that makes me sick. i dint know if this is evil to say, but i hate that kid. him and all kids like him make me scared out of my mind to have children. truthfully, i think kids are so bad now a days because people dont spank their children anymore. my mother spanked up and let me say, i wouldnt even treat my mother like that now. some people think its wrong to spank children but i think its wrong letting your child do whatever they want. anyways, thats my bad children rant.

I read an article that says children that are spanked until I think 8 years of age grow up to be more well behaved and respectable members of society. Now I'm not talking about spanking for every little thing. Me and my husband spank our kids, but only as a last resort. We try to talk it out and reason with them. But sometimes it is hard to reason with a 2 year old. My 6 year old we don't have to spank at all. You just talk about what he is doing wrong and he understands what we are saying and stops or corrects the behavior.

I think it's because every generation parents say..."I want better for my kids" and the kids end up spoiled and rotten. I plan on raising my son the way my grandmother raised her kids. It's ok to be dirty because hard working men are handsome, it's ok to be frugal and shop at the Goodwill, because saving money now means having more money later...and it is ok to be polite and say yes ma'am and open doors for people etc. because people with good manners who respect others, are in turn respected. And my young'in is gonna get whippings when needed. But spanked with love and not anger. ;)

I never spanked my daughter who is now a well adjusted 17yr old. She has a condition which would cause internal bleeding at best and broken bones at the worst. I had a way of dealing with her when she was naughty. This involved me telling her calmly to sit down on the couch while I explained to her why her actions were inappropiate and what the consequences of her actions were. I did this 3 or 4 times for different things. Ok it took 4 hours of my time but afterwards I only had to mention 'actions & consequences' and she would look at me and say 'can you hit me instead so I can go back out to play'. My answer was NO! She got the message.

My mother was an awful woman who beat me and once threw a kettle of boiling water at me for no reason, other than I disagreed with her opinion. I never shouted or swore at her as a teenager. I worked and handed over all my wage. So it's not always the teenager who is at fault. I left home just before my 18th birthday and was homeless. I prefered that to living in a violent household. I wonder how many of these 'bad' teens are having similar issues. No kid is born bad, it's what they learn that makes them bad. Ok....rant over

Minnie, as for your skirt I think it's a brilliant use of materials. In the war years you would be seen as a sewing goddess. I make things out of materials that started life as something else. It's good to be resourceful in this throw away society. Too many people think we have a limitless supply of materials. I wear what I like, get stared at and say 'glad you noticed me' with a smile. Hold your head up high and don't care what 'they' think