15-year-old sues his mom for taking his phone off him

Henrin said:

So you're saying that it's more likely this is just a one off thing that is caused by them being a teenager? Teenagers don't as a group have behavior problems or just get resentful for no reason, you know. It's likely a consequence of something going with the kid or something between the parent and child or combination of both. What I said about this likely having a longer history behind it is a real possibility. You're simply stopping your thinking at the punishment that set this all in motion, while paying no mind to what could have came before it.

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You don't seem to be actually reading what I'm actually writing.

For him to even consider SUING his Mom over a phone means **** in that household is seriously broken.

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I've said repeatedly that for it to even GET to that point, things are not right in that household.


And I've got to assume you don't have kids, because you don't seem to know anything about teenagers.

On the surface it looks pretty bad but to be fair we don't really know the full story. Maybe the mother is a neurotic disciplinarian and the kid is trying to re-claim power from her. I remember when I was 12 years old there was a scandal at school where a kid called the cops on his father for hitting him. The teachers all rolled their eyes like the kid was obviously out of control and this seeped into the student body until the kid was being bullied at school.

The cops did nothing and about a year later the kid's mom was hospitalized with some kind of brain injury from having the crap beaten out of her by the dad. The whole attitude at school changed in the blink of an eye.

I'm just saying... we don't know the full story. Being a parent is a tough gig and learning to live together isn't easy in some families. If the mother has a screw loose then maybe she'll think twice about how she approaches things now. She won the case but her name is in the headlines now!

Henrin said:

So you're saying that it's more likely this is just a one off thing that is caused by them being a teenager? Teenagers don't as a group have behavior problems or just get resentful for no reason, you know. It's likely a consequence of something going with the kid or something between the parent and child or combination of both. What I said about this likely having a longer history behind it is a real possibility. You're simply stopping your thinking at the punishment that set this all in motion, while paying no mind to what could have came before it.

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If you had kids, how would you handle one that does not want to study and spend most of the time on the phone?

Or more generally, if you have kids how did you handle situations where the kid acts out against you because they are not getting their way?