I have 3 teenagers, they are 13 (boy) 14.5 (girl) and 15.5 (girl) I shall mostly be talking about:
Food - how much do they sodding eat?
The fact that they are sullen introverted beasts whenever you want to go somewhere or do something - but as SOON as you sit down to watch something that YOU would like to see on YOUR tv they rock up and witter at you nonstop about various fascinating topics ( "Have you heard about X who's got this amazing youtube channel, it's hilarious..." "You know my friends neighbours aunts cousins daughter, well she....." "I made this awesome axe on minecraft....")
The constant sneering derision about my life/clothes/interests but if my stuff isn't nailed down it gets 'borrowed'.
The many and varied prima donna moments over the most trivial of things " Where are the black tights, I HATE you, you're controlling and you've got me under house arrest..."
Their pits aka bedrooms aka health hazards
The fact that if I need a charger for something or my headphones they have been appropriated
And finally, that unlike toddlers they are in your face until nearly bloody midnight!!
And with 3 of them there is a non stop caravan of hormones, drama, requests for cash, hormones, tantrums, hormones.
I think that's about it for now.
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alistron1 · 29/07/2012 10:23
Yip, sounds just like here.
Food just melts away in minutes here.
The state of the bathroom 
When you do the laundry and come across loads of your clothes, all dirty. You have not worn them, DD has.
Where are all the towels? And teaspoons? And cups/glassses?
glasses what do they do with them I suspect eat them or do science experiments with them , I have teen tension at the moment eldest is at the tail end of her teens but still pouts like a 14 yr old mixed with her 14 yr old sister it has been fraught today sigh
oh shoes my livingroom looks like barrats most days It doesnt matter how many times i tell them they dont move them, I once threw one across the room in temper after i fell over it she moved it then after loony mum exploded in
Teaspoons ? I remember teaspoons.
I remember dishes too.
I think I had some teaplates once.
Squirrels - it's my ds who is the drama "queen", always has been, dd is MUCH calmer.
Not long ago I was unloading my trolley onto the conveyor belt at the supermarket (loads of litres of fruit juice coming out first) and the girl on the till asked me if I ran a cafe 
. 'twas only a week's supply for ds and his mates.
@ Cats.
I bet the assistant thought you were going to have a domestic.
dd2 drops her school bag and P E bag just as she walks in the door 
and towels jeezus drive me insane, I am week 9 of dd 1s college holidays I am loosing the will to live now she is just hanging about like a bad smell
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A dressing gown? I'd love for there to be a dressing gown all year round instead of when the temperature plummets. I'm just pleased he wears pj bottoms now.
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