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I agree that children who act that way at school act that way at home. Their parents either don't care because they are also jerk faces, or they are those stupid parents who want to be friends with their kids instead of being their parent and they are afraid to discipline. I don't think you are a jerk face or stupid so your LO should be juuuust fine.

There is NO WAY that I would have ever disrespected a teacher. I was probably a much bigger jerk to my parents. If kids are being that jerky to a teacher, I shudder to think what they are like at home.

@Rubies: OMG! I had classmates who were jerks and it always made me uncomfortable!

ohhhhhhh yes, there are parents out there that DO want their kids to be jerkfaces...or at least, they don't care if they become one or not. How do I know this ? Because my neighbors are those kind of parents....and their kids are appalling. Examples : they host parties for their kids and let them drink alcohol underage while they are there with them (how sad, they obviously haven't outgrown high school themselves) ....they probably let them do other drugs... It's disgusting, I so badly want to move to get away from them. They are not reflective of the others neighbors in my neighborhood.... I think we just got extremely unlucky =[

I think parents who don't care to be involved in their children's lives turn out having jerkface kids. I was looking around at the playground and 2 boys were pushing other kids down and laughing. One of them said, "get lost, stupid" to my little guy (SO mean) but come to find out their moms were chatting it up outside of the playground and not paying any attention to how their boys were behaving. Blah.

I'm sorry there were some rude kids in your class hopefully they won't give you too hard of a time.

@podomama: what a terrible situation!! ugh.

@Rubies: sorry!! I love your word jerkface though lol.

I agree with pp's, lack of discipline and standing your ground. I mean sometimes you are an amazing parent and your LO still makes poor choices. You can't ALWAYS blame parents, because in the end, kids make their own choices.

I heard my pastor say once that parents shouldn't ever have to take the credit for a bad kid just as they shouldn't take credit for a good one - because in the end, they choose their own path. You merely equip them with the tools to make the RIGHT decisions.

If you feel confident that you do this as a parent, then you can't take blame when LO's make poor decisions.

I was a jerkface in high school and my parents totally didn't tolerate it. That didn't mean that I respected their parenting efforts to mold me into a polite teen. I made my own choices and I regret them and how they hurt my friends and family. I really hope my LO doesn't turn out like me!!

Thankfully I grew out of it.

What's a jerk face?

My parents just instilled the fear of god into me. lol. I was just too chicken to defy a teacher because I didn't want them to tell my dad!

I rode the bus home this morning after playgroup and a bunch of young teens boarded the bus...acting quite obnoxiously. My feeling is that these kids are flexing their independence and are probably pretty well behaved at home. It's when they're out of their parents sight that they act a bit more boisterously, so I'd not judge too quickly that they have no discipline at home. They might, and they might have parents that would be appalled at their public behaviour.

My mom is a hs teacher and when the kids are rude she calls the parents only to find out that the parents are just as rude as the kids most the time!

I plan on doing what my parents did for me - teach me that every action has a consequence. I never drank in high school, always wore my seat belt (and made anyone who was riding in my car wear theirs) and studied hard because I knew what could happen if I didn't. I think a lot of kids are told "don't do that" but aren't given concrete examples of what could happen. For instance, I was told "If you drink and drive, then get into an accident and kill someone, their family can sue your dad and I and take everything we have." Okay - drinking and driving = super bad. Got it!

@Rubies: MUHAHAH Sit yo ass down! I remember that behavior with my middle schoolers. I had that with a 4yr old in my class recently.(I teach Pre-K now) I black out and came to after a while.LOL His parents must love time at home with him!