teen out of control

[TheGeekess]

I'm still wondering what's happening to the other young children while Mommy and Daddy are hiding from Big Bad Brother...

One of the problems I see a lot with parents of teens is that they often (not saying in all cases) don't do the hard work long before the kid is 16 and outweighing them. And then are surprised when the kid is 16, outweighs them, and decides that s/he is going to rule the roost.

Then they want to send Junior to the psych unit where they expect the staff to "fix" Junior in two weeks after they've had 16 years to screw him up.