Question

[mduffy31]

Is it in a teenage girls genes to be whiny and annoying? I just had to endure listening to my 14 year old cousin complain about school, how the teachers are stupid, how the rules suck, why do I have to do this blah blah blah. I just wanted to slap her on the back of the head and explain, life isn't fair and you have to deal with bullshit all your life.

Okay flame away....

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[qnr]

1. No idea. Haven't spoken to a teenage girl in ages. Thought your profile

was funny, in relation to this thread though :) ... gender, city .... male, superior

[Ptah]

2. No head slapping.

Head-slapping is wrong.

[fizzgig]

3. just be grateful it was whiny and annoying

most teenage girls (including myself at that age) are the most vicious and nasty creatures on the planet

give me a pack of lionesses on the hunt or a swarm of piranhas any day

:P

[reyd reid reed]

17. Yup.

Whoever said 'sugar and spice and everything nice' was either delusional, in denial or never met a teenaged girl. Or any girl, for that matter.

We're vile, nasty creatures sometimes.

:P

[Robeson]

4. Why are you whining to us about this....

...and wanting us to endure listening to your complaints, and blah blah blah....:P

[Evoman]

5. Gah...I have to share the bus with them

When I take the bus in the morning, its full of annoying teenage girls. They speak too loudly, laugh to loudly, and whine a lot. They want everyone on the bus to listen to them. And sometimes they are so incredibly bold and actually HIT ON ME and other university guys on the bus....in a very clumsy, immature, ANNOYING way. Boys their age may want to talk to them and kiss their asses, but to me they are about as deep and interesting as a can of paint.

God, I'm only 27 and I feel like I should be sitting on the porch in a rocking chair wih a shotgun, complaining about "the kids these days".

On edit: they aren't all like that, obviously. So the young 'uns on DU can just relax. Its just that I notice the obnoxious ones, because they are the ones making all the noise.

[fizzgig]

6. rocking chair + shotgun

one of my all time favorite equations, but like you, i am still a bit young for that

[hotforteacher]

7. That would be the nature of teenagers in general

And not just girls. :banghead:

Take a four-year-old and make them heavily dependent upon their social network and that's what you get. You could probably lecture her and get the same results as someone lecturing you: apathy and ennui.

I like teenagers. They make more sense than most of the adults I know.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Glad to hear that SOMEONE likes us. :D

[hotforteacher]

12. Thank you.

It is my job. I teach them for a living. And I just like them.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Yes it is.

Cut us some slack, dude. We don't have your vast years of experience yet to know any better.

:P

[rug]

10. Does she post in the Lounge?

[dropkickpa]

11. Look at it this way

Most 14 year-old girls are NOT gonna talk to an adult guy relative about what is bugging them. Your neice obviously feels safe and trusting enough with you to open up, even if it seems like just whining to you. You should be flattered (ok, yes, it can be annoying). But, instead of giving a headslap, explain to her that it DOES get better eventually, but yes, being 14 does suck. And maybe suggest a way to make it easier to deal with, say, teachers.

You have the chance to mold a fresh young mind, start encouraging her to read some political articles (with a lefty slant, of course :evilgrin: ) or give her some examples of strong women who fought the system to read up on

Rosa Parks http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
Margaret Sanger http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/sanger.html
Emmeline Pankhurst http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/pankhurst01.html
Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html etc).

Give her some inspiration and encourage her. The annoying whining of today could be the voice raised in protest and outrage tomorrow.

[mduffy31]

13. Well I am 30

...so I am still young enough that I still remember a lot of what she is talking about, and I had a lot of the teachers that she had.

[dropkickpa]

16. Oooo, even better

You'll know all the tricks :evilgrin: to tell her about how to deal with the ones she has problems with!!!

[mduffy31]

20. What I love the best

Is my cousin who is my age is now a teacher at the school we went to, and I remember all the shit that we pulled, kids today think they invented some of the shit that they do now. We just sit and laugh when he tells me of some of the exploits.

[xchrom]

14. kids!?! -- what's the matter with kids today?

why can't they be like we were -- perfect in every way?

thanks to bye-bye birdie.

[SoyCat]

15. Teenage boys never whine--do they? **sarcasm**

[reyd reid reed]

18. Not after about 19, they don't.

As much.

:P

[MissMillie]

19. No, that's not genetic

it's environmental... they get it from being around other whiny kids.