Response to Sarah's 'Anti social behaviour'

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There are few things that annoy me more than teenagers who think they look good by intimidating other people. The incident you experienced at the park must have been traumatic for your children and what is even more frustrating, a park is for children and yet you felt that you had to leave.

For a start, any teenager who spends their evenings hanging around on a childrens park, the jokes on them as they clearly have nothing better to be doing with their life. It's quite sad actually, I think some of the blame (as always) has to come down to the parents, if your teenager is going out with their friends in the evening, fine, but if they are going out with the intention to terrorise people they don't know for no good reason, then I suspect they aren't very 'hands on' parents anyway. I think more encouragement is needed from parents to get their kids involved in hobbies such as a sport or club of some kind that will teach them discipline and respect, where they will also make friends with kids who have interests and aims in life. There are too many kids today wasting their teenage years acting like idiots that won't teach them anything or get them anywhere.