�Teenagers are snotty and dismissive towards their mothers because they are stupid. �Those are the results of a recent study I have conducted in my home. The control group consisted of a non-snotty and non-dismissive child. The offending teenager is about to graduate from high school and is currently receiving lots of attention from teachers, school administrators and other teenagers of the opposite gender. The teenager appears to be self-absorbed and influenced by her peers who are also teenagerish. I have concluded that despite the child's belief that she is so great, she is stupid. It is the mother that controls the money and the general environment. She provides food and shelter for the offspring. It does not have to be good food and shelter. As long as basic nutritional requirements are met, the meals provided can be really, really untasty. I have been needing a sewing room, or rather a place to store my piles of junk. Oh, that bedroom over there seems to have available space, I will just stack my things in there. I will need to travel through the room often to rummage through my things. I am happy to have a new junk room even though it is cluttered up with a sullen teenager.