I often thought that it was just my son that was coming home from school in a strop and every word that comes out of his mouth is, "Whatever", or "What the Hell". Anyone else have a teenager like that. I have friends who have kids that seem to be the same. We put it down to hormones and influences of school and school friends, but are we right. My son is 13, he will be 14 in December and he comes home from school quite fed up. I don't think that even he knows quite what is wrong with him and why he seems to be so angry and have so much attitude all the time. I think that the pressure that teachers are putting on them is too much. The work they have to do at school now seems too much, I don't understand half the homework he comes home with. Most of his lessons require him to be some kind of newspaper journalist, which sorry he will never be. I'm not putting my kids down, but my son is not academic at all when it comes to writing etc, I think he will be more of a hands on kind of kid, so when he comes home with yet another piece of shit project on making yet another newsletter, I just sit and watch him find relevant information on the Internet and copy and paste because he's fed up with them, if he gets graded badly so be it, maybe they will realise they shouldn't give out such mundane homework. Truth is, teachers don't like the kids to have free time, yet to me, if students were given free time away from school they would be a lot happier and more susceptible to learning at school. When you think about this pressure the kids are put under by their teachers is it any wonder teenagers become monsters.
