Teenagers who don't hate their parents?

The good news about this is that I've noticed a lot of teenagers these days hanging out with their parents acting like they don't hate them. You may be asking: is this possible? Or just an illusion?

Let me break it down for you. Today's offspring spend their entire childhoods doing things that used to be reserved for kids who were grown up enough to physically intimidate their parents, ie.; back-sassing, sulking, throwing tantrums, and exploring bisexuality. Nowadays, by the time they're thirteen or fourteen they've been doing it for so long all the fun has gone out of it and they're over it. Anyway, what are they going to rebel against? They haven't been able to come up with any music that's more offensive than what we listen to, (totally the reverse), and who among us is going to tell them at this point, “No: don't follow your dream. Do not spend your precious time writing space operas and autobiographical monologues?” So by the time today's teenagers are fifteen or sixteen, they're already pleasant little mini-adults, just like they used to be 200 years ago.

This may sound too optimistic, but I do need to point out that there are a couple of draw-backs to having a society of pleasant teenagers. The first drawback is that this method of child rearing is so exhausting that by the time your kid becomes a pleasant adolescent, you may be too worn down to a fuzzy nubbin of your former self to enjoy it. The second problem is that when teenagers don't hate their parents, they don't hate authority and there's no one left to fight the power or stick it to the Man, and hello? Here we are. The elevator music that teenagers are churning out these days is a symptom of the fact that they're harmonious with their parents, pacified by constant access to entertainment and as addled by corn products as a herd of beef cows. Even black kids can't get angry any more. How wrong is that? Have you heard Jay-Z and Kanye's latest album, where they just go on and on about how awesome their lives are? It's like, that's nice for you, Dawg.