Reasons my 15yr old hates me. Episode 437

I said they could invite some friends to a barbecue, so far so good, but then I asked how many people were coming and if they ate everything (eg veggies, allergies) and what would they like to drink. Apparently I have to know absolutely everything and why wasn’t he allowed privacy! Dh offered him pillowcases so he could smuggle them in without us seeing.

I got ‘I didn’t ask to be born’ for the first time last week. She asked last year for a specific holiday and I took her.
My mate reminds me that they don’t have a big chunk of their brain fully developed at this age, I chant this silently in my mind!

Mine hates me this morning because his hair is too long and won’t do what he wants and it’s my fault because I said we were going to the barbers at the weekend and he told me he wants to wait until next week

I have a 15 yr old DD and she is wonderful BUT still 15

1. She bought me and DP a cake the other day to celebrate a little business win we had and we were so touched she thought about us like this, we kept saying how lovely it was. To the point she said ‘ok you have both kinda ruined it being so touched’ 🙄🤣
2. I spent too long looking at her guinea pig after she called me to look at the guinea pig (apparently I was being weird about it now) 🤣
3. said she had barely seen me all day (I was WFH and she didn’t get up until 1pm, so I took my work upstairs to work in her room just to chat while I was typing - apparently ‘you do know you can go now?’ Within 15 mins 🤣

I’ve just been told that the rubbish I asked DS to pick up and put in the bin “enhances the floor”. It’ll enhance his head if he carries on.

The wind blew in her face the wrong way... and it's obviously my fault.

Honestly, OP, YABU for not a) having trained your cat to catch its sneeze in a tissue or, at worst, the crook of its leg, and b) not coming on here to tell all us cat owners how the F to train a cat to do anything 😂

When I dropped dd (16) off at the train station this morning, I asked if she wanted me to get her anything from the supermarket for after college. When she came home, she moaned there was NOTHING to eat in this house. (The packs of noodles, dumplings and halloumi fries she chose in Costco last week apparently ‘taste funny’ and that’s also my fault.)

I hope you paid to makeup for still being alive.

Mine didn’t want carrots today. Worst mother ever.

My kids are not teens yet but I’m a secondary teacher so I totally sympathise and today I:
Didn’t sufficiently admire one of my form group’s revision
Hadn’t yet watched a TV episode that one of them wanted to discuss

Mine just seem to have issues with each other. Then turn on me because 'i don't do anything about them (sibling)'

Mine spent all Friday hating me and his dad because we took him to the cinema to see the film he wanted to see with us but being out in public with parents is painfully embarrassing in case his friends see him, as none of them have parents you see

Because her sister is home from Uni

because I dropped her at the nail place on my way somewhere but they were busy so she came car shopping with me and we went to M/S on the way home

she was at the zoo all day with her mate

im a shit mum who loves her sister more

I remember so clearly doing aqua aerobics at about 8 months pregnant. A primary school group turned up and were being really rowdy. I was getting irritated by them. I then suddenly thought ‘oh shit I’m having one of them!!’

actually this made me think of the time I was dog sitting and the dog (a big drooling boxer) sneezed in my sister’s yoghurt. I nearly died laughing at the look on her face

Teenagers are arseholes!
I am to blame for everything that goes on in
the world!!
When things aren’t going right for him he bombards me with messages at work!
Not sure what I can do from
here mate, why not speak to your other parent, you know the one that gets home from work at 2:15 every day. Give him some grief for a change! 🙄😂

I just got given a bollocking because I agreed with DS that he should publish his novel, and then also agreed that he shouldn't. He slammed the door on the way out. I am wrong about intellectual property law.

I only have a 13yo so hes not quite at the stage of hating me yet, but this made me smile/cringe as the plates thing is exactly the kind of stuff I would have moaned to my mum about way back when. Once had a hissy fit in IKEA as she wouldn't let me buy some wooden hangers to replace the perfectly decent plastic and metal ones we had. Thankfully I grew up, she forgave me, we look back and laugh. Here's hoping you (and I) get out the other side of the teen years in one piece and can look back and laugh too

Your poor daughter, does she need me to send the link for NSPCC? I can only imagine the hours in therapy she'll need to get over the trauma of mismatched crockery and cat sneezing on her friend

At that age , mine told me to turn the car radio off when i picked her up from school in case her friends heard it when she opened the car door.
Classic fm was embarrassing her 🤣

Well, if it’s your cat then it’s obviously your fault. You should apologise for existing, and buy her some food

Im crying OP.
my SD told me that she has told her friends my name is aurora and to go along with it because my name doesn’t give cool mum vibes. If I don’t she said she won’t have any friends over here ever again and her life will be over. She’s 8

looking forward to your next instalment

I feel incredibly lucky every day to have escaped the sulky teen phase with all 3. Youngest 17 now. My mother meanwhile is fuming I never got pay back!! Teens can be hideous creatures.

🤣🤣🤣 you are SO unfair! (In my best Harry Enfield voice)