Obviously I did it just to spite my 15yr old

🤦‍♀️ That would make sense if the teen had broken it herself but it's incredibly stingy and selfish to expect a teen to pay for something that a parent broke. Parent's responsibility is to fix it although I agree that she'll live with just the bath

His audacity actually made me laugh. He should have taken them to the cobbler himself.

"This is the one thing you had to do for me, and you got it wrong" sounds like a line from a film; the nearest one I can think of is in Driving Lessons, when the teenage-like retired actress (played by Julie Walters) rants "the one time I needed you, and you let me down"

Dd2 - I woke up one day to find her face multimeters away from mine - she said (deadpan) ‘for what you have done to me I will kill you’.
my crime - throwing out her Boo pants - she was 8 - the pants aged 2-3 with holes in - she had three pairs she wore in rotation

I mended the torn jeans and ironed them. I still haven’t been forgiven and she’s 50

That has really tickled me 😂

My 14 year old insisted on getting his shoes cobbled despite them nearly falling off his feet. He doesn’t like change at all. So off I went and then he threw a giant fit because there was a bit of glue in the wrong place which he could feel. And he gave me a speech which started with “This, in all of my life, is the one thing you had to do for me. The one thing. And you got it wrong.”

I resisted the urge from showing him the bodily results of his existence as the stitching is still red, all these years later.

A few of my teenage memories:

I was miffed to win a school prize in year 11 (actually the first school prize I had ever won), for "progress". It implied I wasn't doing well before, and I was not happy about having to collect it in front of everybody else, and that valuable time was spent rehearsing this process. Yes, really!

I used to visit my grandmother after school, whom I loved dearly, but I successfully negotiated that she would only kiss me when I was inside, and the door was closed, in case anybody saw me.

When shoe shopping, my brother rejected some smart black school shoes, because they were the same style worn by Mr Bean.

My dad worked for the council driving the mobile library van and my younger sister found it so embarrassing that her dad did this so he would go and do donuts in the car park tooting the horn and flashing the lights.

She was the talk of the school and wanted a week off to get thru it. My dad laughed and said he would keep doing it the more it embarrassed her.

I had never heard that expression before and, for a few seconds, thought your mother had actually turned into a glorious white bird!

My eldest son moved out to live with his dad cause we asked him to wash dishes. He pays to his dad £120 just so he doesn't have to do dishes but his dad's girlfriend is an arse so he sometimes has just his own dishes and he isn't allowed to put the dish washer on so he ends up doing dishes anyway and pays for it aswell lol

My son informed me his friends mother is absolutely awful and currently going mad.
Her crime?
She apparently cooks organic meals from scratch everyday.

Apparently they have to go to Macdonald's regularly or the poor boy would starve to death 😂

All I could think was what an awful mother I am as I don't have time to do that everyday. His friends mother is a SAHM and lovely btw.

My crimes are many

• I don't supply enough snacks and DS is being starved.

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It's ok I've reported the thread to MN and they've confirmed they are passing on all the IP addresses and people's posting history to the police so they can track down each and every one of these appalling parents and rescue the poor poor children 😢 💔

I hope you all hang your heads in shame and have learned the error of your ways, it's common knowledge that you don't ever talk to your teens friends/your friends/shop workers/anyone when in the company of your teen. It's common knowledge you don't breathe near them or look at them!

Smugly typing this as I cuddle with DD9 knowing I'll never make these mistakes and will continue to be the best mum ever in her eyes once she becomes a teen 💖 😂😂

Edited to add; oh actually ignore the last paragraph I just made the mistake of calling her my baby girl and now I'm the actual worst 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

I’ve ruined my 16 year olds life this week by:

1 buying salt and vinegar crisps from ALDI!
2 washing a top that had been in the basket for 24 hours when she wanted to wear it today
3 waking her up at 9am talking to the cat

My Mum ironed my amazingly trendy (market knock off) shell suit and melted the bloody thing.

She also caused me a lifetime of embarrassment by cutting my sandwiches into dainty little triangles for a school trip 😳😳😳😳😳😳

I was saying earlier to DH when out this afternoon as we passed a lovely yellow
Clio that I had once really wanted to have a yellow car. I always hated my dm answering the door to my friends especially after she told them it was real brass monkey weather and embarrassing me.

I used to ruin the lives of my three when they were teenagers by just existing.

Teenagers don't want to admit to having parents. We are not cool pets at all apparently. 🙄🤣

So sorry, been there. It's hard work for the tyrants, hope you have some support x

When I was 15 my dad said he'd like to take me to Paris for a weekend.
WHAT. A. DICK.

I filled several pages in my diary about how un-fun and actually borderline abusive this would be.

My friend says hello to her 14 year old son today as she passed him in the park whilst taking the dog for a walk. Apparently she’s so embarrassing! She just smiled and said ‘hi’ as she walked past but his life is ruined!

I ordered and paid for the hoody she wanted off Vinted. She doesn’t like it, it’s all my fault

When I was teenager, my mum ruined my life by hanging my clothes in the wardrobe. I wanted them in the big pile on the bottom of my wardrobe!
My DD 14, doesn’t allow her brother to breathe in the same room because she doesn’t want to breathe the air from his lungs

Not officially a teenager yet but I ruin mine’s life every time I point at the bathroom and demand teeth are brushed

Don’t tell me that I have a 14 year old, it gets worse?

My 15 year old is an absolute darling. Of course that may be because he’s a cat…