Why you’ll never be woke enough for your teenager
Today's teenagers are the PC police and living with them can be like walking on eggshells
8 May 2021 • 6:00am
‘She tells me how to go about getting a boyfriend’ – Anna Stopps with daughter Matilda Rothwell-Stopps
Credit: Rii Schroer
As a secondary school teacher, Rhona is generally in charge of the classroom. However, at home, her three teenagers are perpetually ticking her off for things she says and does.
“Most recently it was for not only buying normal milk – rather than plant milk – but actually referring to it as ‘normal milk’,” she says. “As my 18-year-old put it: ‘What’s normal about the product of a poor animal that’s been artificially inseminated to be kept in a permanent state of lactation?’