“I saw an instance of this the other day at a local restaurant. The father, a boy (about 8), and his sister(about 6) were out for dinner. After the boy started teasing his sister, the father told to to move to another seat at the table.
At first, the boy refused to move. After the third time being told, he got up and in a disgusted tone said “OK, I’ll f**kin’ move.” The father did absolutely nothing about it. Had I said that to my father, I’d probably still be looking for my teeth off in the corner of the restaurant.”
I don’t even want to recall what I know would have happened to me when I got back to the car or home if I had behaved similarly. The problems is that many kids know they can get away with it. They also know they have “rights” nowadays, too.
I would have been D E A D, period, no discussion.