Obviously I did it just to spite my 15yr old

Was looking after young teenagers on an inset day whilst their parents worked, husband taken to hospital that day and told he had to stay in, he had no pjs at home so needed some quickly to take to hospital in the 10mins between dropping teens off and end of visiting hours so went to big Tesco near our house. Teens were traumatised at Tesco pj shopping and Uncle DH should have just worn a hospital gown to save their sanity the selfish git.

I ruined my teen’s half term apparently by booking her one hour of tutoring a day as a result of her having failed nearly all her mocks. I said she should be thanking me for getting her extra help! But her exact words were ‘you aren’t letting me have a holiday’. Her GCSEs are in two months.

Good to see I am not alone!

So it is interesting that almost half the posts are former teenagers confessing how they were the cool teenagers (aka brats).

So the ultimate shame is to show them this thread and remind them that what ever they think the dynamic is now it is inevitable- nay destiny- that history will repeat itself and they WILL become mothers with recalcitrant dc and they will own the cringe fest legacy. 😄

I talked to supermarket check out staff. Obviously the whole store would watch in pity when l did this. And to make it worse l don't have a "normal" (Northern) accent. When one cashier gave me extra vouchers for a special deal the supermarket was running, son was astonished that they appeared to like me.

I had an orange car with a green door from the scrap yard. Imagine ruining your 15 years old life like

I ruined my teenage daughters life because she only got home baked cakes. Every other person she knew got shop bought ones. I am a reasonably good baker. Not sure how she survived 😀

ive just ruined my teens life by signing the consent form for his end of term fun reward trip to a trampoline park and pizza. I’m a witch.

Yep just looking at her is a crime at 15 🥴😖🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 I’m loving this age.

I’ve ruined DD2’s life over a pair of white crocs… DD’s crocs have been worn to death so I said I’d get her some new ones. She looked on the croc website and they are reduce. I looked on Amazon where they are cheaper than the reduced crocs website. I stupidly said I’d buy them from amazon, this is apparently unacceptable. They should be bought directly from the croc website. I asked why, another stupid decision on my part. They are reduced on the crocs website, therefore cheaper than they should be so I should get them from there. I then even more stupidly suggested that once you included delivery costs they were nearly £10 cheaper on amazon, and amazon is next day delivery. Apparently I’m so unreasonable and I should want her to have them from crocs….
Please, make it make sense!!!

I arranged for a plumber to come and fit new taps and mend out toilet this morning. I told DS23 last night so he could have a shower before the plumber arrived at 10.30. Apparently I ruined his day off because he didn’t get up in time so couldn’t have a shower before going out.

I managed to persuade my son out at the weekend on the promise of a short walk and a cake, but he insisted her knew a better way, cue a much longer walk and then the cake shop was shut, and all this was my fault!

My son is 17, we did this when he was 7, he turned round to me, with a look that could kill and a voice I had never heard before, said, do not do that to me ever again! I was genuinely scared!

I really did laugh at the ending you wrote but truely hope your daughter gets well and healthy .

I umpire teenage netball matches, I've seen all kinds of fisticuffs between the teenagers and their parents. Having said that, the teenagers usually behave well on court - it's often the adult players who have the biggest tantrums, rather than the teenagers! It can be tricky if there's a teenager playing, and their parent is umpiring; and occasionally, it's the other way round, with older teenagers. The spectating parents can be annoying to us umpires, especially if they start commenting unduly loudly or nastily. It's funny what the teenagers find embarrassing, or not - most of them don't mind at all wearing crocs with their socks, when the game is over, or maybe their parents order them to change into crocs instead of their expensive netball trainers, for the short walk to the car.

Not related to that, I remember cringing as a teenager when my mum told off some rough-looking teenage lads on a train who were climbing all over the seats, in her best teacher voice, using phrases such as "I shall not hesitate to get the guard!!!". Oh, for when trains had guards, and teenagers usually didn't carry weapons.

Yeah I would be wondering all day who she was and tbh I know it sounds a bit soft, but it would make me anxious that I might have forgotten someone so "friendly". And, worryingly, at my age it might well be the beginning of dementia. This is having a joke at someone's expense rather than just having a laugh.

I ruined my 15 yo DD's life this morning because she was running late for school. I helped her out by giving her a lift, but apparently I'm responsible for time moving on 🙄

Oh I can top this. In the late 80s my Dad had a Skoda, then a Lada. If they weren’t bad enough he bought a very old ambulance and painted it with black gloss paint. 30+ years later I cringe at the thought of exiting that monstrosity outside school.

Let’s face it, mum’s are predominantly there to take the blame for everything when you have children, just looking at them let alone breathing is enough to set them off.

This made me laugh slow dancing the shame not the dancing the dad walking in hahahahah id never live it down.

Sorry (how British!) but I don’t see how that’s amusing either.

I couldn't find her whiteboard pen this morning (five minutes before she had lto leave the house), helped her style her hair wrong, and am being unreasonable for refusing to engage in the drama and be yelled at and treated as a punch bag.

That's fair but it was always done in a way to confuse rather than upset or humiliate

Maybe I’m just po-faced and have a humour bypass but I don’t see how it’s amusing! (I loathe "pranks" - to me they’re just ways to upset/humiliate others.)