After the gym today I was talking on the phone with my mom; she was updating me on some family matters. My grandparents are raising one of my cousins... he's almost done with High School, has his driver's license and is close to turning 18. He is a complete ass. His two older brothers can not stand him and have tried talking some sense into him for years now. He's verbally abusive to my grandparents and disrespectful as all get out.
My grandmother just had surgery on her two big toes a few weeks ago and she's had some issues healing (we all know that as you get older you don't heal as quickly). This past Friday my grandma had a cataract remove from her eye, so yet another surgery... Apparently Friday when my grandparents were in the hospital for my grandma's surgery my cousin took my grandpa's truck out and wrecked it. When my grandma was talking to my mom today on the phone my mom heard my cousin (who had his gf over) tell my grandma that she and my grandpa needed to get out of the house so he could be alone with his gf. When she told him that she was resting like her doctor told her to he told her to f*ck off...
I want to know, seriously, what is wrong with kids these days. I would never have dreamed of telling an elder to f off, I would have never dreamed to tell them they needed to leave the house that they work hard to own. I even notice with the kids where I work (ages 2-5) there are major respect issues. We have 5yr olds who are hitting and throwing things at teachers. Their parents make up all sorts of excuses for them, deny that their child would act in such a manner, or tell us that they're at their wits end and can't control their children. Whatever happened to a good whipping? I know it won't solve all problems... but this new thought process that children should do the right thing bc it's the right thing is stupid. One they're too young to have that level of thought outside their direct world and two adults don't always do the right thing simply bc it's the right thing to do.
I feel that my cousin needs a good a$$ kicking... he needs to know that he's not the baddest dude out there. He needs to be put in his place. It makes me so mad that my grandparents who have worked so hard for everything they have and are both retired have to put up with him and his antics.
Just needed to vent.