Stop talkng back. Sorry, but adults deserve our respect and teenagers DO NOT know everything, amirite?

Neither do adults.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Sometimes adults need to learn a little respect too though. Some adults dont treat anybody with any respect so teenagers shouldnt be expected to treat them with respect just because they're older. Also, usually what adults call "talking back" is just us stating our opinion or saying "ok", and adults don't know everything either, despite what they want us to think.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Their not always right and they most certainly dont know every thing either, it is however rude at times, but sometimes parents are just down right annoying!!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ok... I knwo there are adults out there who you want to punch in the face but on the subject of parents, I've been there. I've spoken back and gotten annoyed but one day, you're all going to have to grow up and at least, AT LEAST respect your parents. If you can't respect them and just hold your tongue once and a while, you cannot say you haev an ounce of respect for your elders. They may not raise you well. They may fuck up but here's some news, some people just dont know how to be parents. They just weren't good at it. deal with it and move forward. They gave you life. What more do you want? Find someone else to be your role model. you are responsible for your own life

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If you 'Hold your tongue', They just get angrier untill you respond to them. And even a simple okay is considered an awful insult to them

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i dont understand why saying just okay is an insult from an argument or whatever. i say that all the time to my parents but thats because i dont know what else to say. i really do want to know. thanks.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Adults don't know everything. You might think that because you don't know what things you dont know. Teens atually know more these days because the tests and etc have got harder yet teens still get a good score. Adults might know more things that you dont need to know but that doesn't make them better. Lots of Adults say everybody should be equal and that teens dont treat eachother equal but then they go off saying Adults should be treated with more respect than Teens. Hmm....

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Teens don't know a damn thing. Tests being harder will only gauge book smart. I thought I knew everything when I was a teenager. Then I grew up and realized that I should probably listen to the guy who has done what I'm trying to do a thousand times before. Respect is a two way street. If you want adults to respect you, you should respect them rather than being a sniveling little shit.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You're right. Respect is a two way street, so if adults show teenagers some respect, they'll most likely get it back. If they don't, then the person is a sniveling little shit. Most of the time though, you reap what you sow.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

And if Adults want our respect they should respect us first. if Adults are the better generation then why dont they start of respecting us!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I've found in most situations that if I had listened to my parents I would have been better off. They know what they're doing, they've been there.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think that parents and children can learn from each other. It's important that neither parents nor children claim to "know it all." Instead, they should each acknowledge that they have faults and that they can always grow and learn. Sometimes children need to talk back to their parents so that they can learn how to express their opinion and so that their parents can realize that they're not being fair or that they're making assumptions. Children can talk back to their parents and still be respectful, and when this occurs, parents should be intelligent and respectful enough to listen to their child's point of view because they expect the child to be respectful enough to listen to theirs.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well said.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That was a really stupid thing to say on a mainly teenager populated site.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Actually, I think it's a very important thing to say to teenagers. I am actually only 17. So you can say what you want but there is so much to learn from adults. They Really were teenagers before.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

So if your SevenTEEN your dizzing yourself. Adults need to learn that they don't know everything!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm not dissing myself. I'm dissing the majority of generations Y and Z. I know some adults are annoying. I know some act like they know everything but have you ever thought of just shutting your mouth and letting it go? I promise life will run more smoothly for you. Welcome to the real world. If you're a teen, you more than likely dont have anything that an adult will want from you. Sorry to be the one to tell you, that you have to give the respect before they will give it to you. It's how the world is. I didn't make it but I don't go around whinging about it either

by Anonymous 14 years ago

you do go around whinging, you whole post is whinging about teens!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Please get some common sense before you reply... I'm not whinging, I'm ranting. There is a significant difference...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

you are whinging you are whinging that teens say they no everything!!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ok, this is exactly what I mean. annoying teenagers who can't keep their mouth shut when there's nothing to fight about. Calm down.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ahha (: quite amused here (: as you set this amirite and everything :L you said up there that you should liisten to the guy who has done it time and time before... But if they didn't think they knew best then you would have nothing to learn from... So yeah... We need mistakes to get everything to work...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You ATM http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/duty_calls.png

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Respect is a two way street. A child or teenager should get just as much respect as they give. While adults are more experienced in life and have gone through many of the things that teenagers are going through, teenagers are being raised in a very different society with different customs in many ways. Sometimes a teenager needs to make mistakes to learn and adults though be there for their teens to help them through the situation. Both teenagers and adults need to learn that there are more then one way to look at a situation and be respectful enough of each other to listen and communicate with each other instead of at each other.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Any time I talk, my parents think I'm talking back. They act like they never had an adittude when they were teenagers.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

They allways have to be right. so if they know you might be right they tell you off.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Wellllll, being 15 and such, I just gotta say... YOU GUYS WERE TEENS TOO! We obviously need some kind of ground rules but just because your a few years older than us doesn't mean you need totalarian rule over us.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

MONKEYS!!!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

C-C-C-C-C-Combo breaker!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(Ron Paul): win. just win.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I would love to meet the teenage version of my parents just to see what they were like and the problems they had to face. It would be interesting to see.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(Ron Paul): Yea so would I. And I'd also love to see if your grandparents took any shit from them if they said the kind of things teenagers say these days.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Respect is not deserved, it is earnt. And nobody knows everything.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Aren't you a clever cookie? I dont believe teenagers have earnt anything as a whole. We're too young to have proven ourselves. to the world.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God stfu. My mom when I try to tell her something "shut the fuck up and stop talking back. I'm an adult, so I'm correct" "but mom I was just trying to tell you what really happened..." "are you calling me a liar?!? I'm an adult and you're a child. So shut up" -____- I'm 15. God.

by Anonymous 13 years ago