Today my teenager was upset because.....

I have an eleventeen year old.

She hates me because I have put controls on her phone, which she has worked out how to get around, and will hate me more today because I'll be explaining why Melanie Martinez is not appropriate for her age group.

The thing that will really bloody get her raging is when I explain that her thinking she's trans and lesbian doesn't actually shock me and actually is totally normal and doesn't make her special.

Evil parent that I am, not being shocked by her being all different and shocking 🤣

(I'm actually worried and petrified for her but she won't be told that!)

DS is still a preteen but the hormones are kicking in. Today he is annoyed as he has to get the bus to school all week as I have to work. He’s especially annoyed that I can’t take him tomorrow as I have an INSET day and that means a day off… except I’m a HLTA and I’m doing the training 😂.

Took my then 13 year old cousin to Paris for a long weekend, she gave me the silent treatment for 12 hours because I had suggested she ordered her McDonald's herself.
That was after traipsing around the area for over an hour trying to find something that Madame would've liked to eat. She insisted on McD and then got miffed when I told her that she could order it, as she did speak some French.

16yo sulked with me for two days because I made him eat breakfast, take a multivitamin and have a good night’s sleep. Apparently this is the height of cruelty.

[quote backinthebox]@blissfulllife 🤣🤣🤣 yes, we’ve had style-stealing too! She thinks she’s being all edgy in her DMs and check shirts. Then DH tells her how much like me at the same age she is and she stomps off in her DMs in a huff![/quote]
Lol!

We took DS (13) to California and he told me that while he was grateful, he'd actually have rather spent the summer dicking about in our local park with his friends and that he was missing 'so much' being away with us.

My 16yo son moaned becuase I bought him new bedding, made his bed for him coming home from his dads after October hols and he doesn’t like the checked pattern. It’s blue on the other side. God knows why he has to be rude and ungrateful about it.

@blissfulllife 🤣🤣🤣 yes, we’ve had style-stealing too! She thinks she’s being all edgy in her DMs and check shirts. Then DH tells her how much like me at the same age she is and she stomps off in her DMs in a huff!

Thank goodness my teenager is apparently normal, going by the descriptions here!

Being forced to go on a family holiday? Tick.
Missing Halloween? Tick
Hating fresh air and light in her room? Tick.

Current one is she is outraged that I have to go to work at New Year. I have to work some bank holidays and New Year is less bad than working Christmas, but according to the teen, it’s just Not Good Enough. 😳

Also, I make her look after her horse sometimes. I am an awful parent!

Mine saw a picture of me aged 15 in full goth mode. Half shaved head the rest dyed black and wearing ripped up Levi's a mesh top and bra. She's livid lol!. I stole her style! EH!!!! How could I walk around like that!? Why did I have piercings and she can't!? Lololol

Honestly she was appalled and jealous all rolled into one and is now barely speaking to me 😂

Mine is raging because I won't let her take her very expensive prom dress which she said she absolutely needed for y11 leavers prom to school for her friend to wear in a production.

I should add the prom dress is unworn as prom was cancelled cos covid. And unaltered cos we only just managed to pick it up before lockdown #1. And is a long, slinky thing so will be filthy being dragged around backstage and as I said unworn.

Apparently I am destroying this other girls A Levels and dreams of uni. If she is anything like dd she will definitely get A* in dramatic effect.

Why are teenagers so wierd though :S mine are toddlers and I'm already freaking out about it like why are they so confusingly.. Different

DD1 almost 17 looked at me across the table yesterday and told me she didn't like the way I ate

I opened the window in in my sons' bedroom. "What have you DONE??? It smells weird!". That would be fresh air.

The utter abhorrence of my actions today - opening her bedroom curtains and window at 2pm... It's Monday, it's a school day (although lockdown virtual school) and it smelled like a pair of old shoes in there! What a cruel mother I am!

Thank you for this thread. I thought it was just me. I dared to suggest booking a trip to celebrate my 50th. My 15 and 17 year old were livid because it is in December and they may miss out on a party. Lol at drinking in a field.

The holidays ones are ending me. Not a parent of a teenager yet, but I vividly remember the horror of being made to go on lovely holidays with my family when aged 13-16. Wishing the time away wanting to be at home. I do not know what I was thinking; teenagers’ brain chemistry is mad.

I now have a toddler and no spare money and haven’t been on holiday for three years. I would cry with gratitude if someone offered to take me to a Greek island for a week!

DD is upset that I have covid because she might get it and miss her weekend away in 6 weeks time!

My list is endless:

We had the temerity to suggest earlier that we all go to Antigua next Summer after their exams, but it might clash with 'other things' such as parties and drinking in fields with their mates

We 'threatened' to take them back to New Zealand for another Christmas next year, which was totally unacceptable as they like Christmas at home and could mean them missing out on Christmas parties. Bless them the poor lambs are still traumatised by the experience of being made to spend Christmas Day on a beach in Abel Tasman National Park a few years ago.

We took them to Dubai three years ago and dd2 still hasn't got over us 'making her' miss Halloween.

Other than that they're perfectly lovely girls that are, believe it or not, not spoiled at all other than in cases such as the above where the possibility of 'missing out' is too much to bear 🙄