Please share your teens’ toddler like tantrums

[bendmeoverbackwards]

And please remind me it’s a normal stage of development and it will pass.

Spent all morning trying to coax 14 year old dd out of her hotel room we are vacating today.

She’s also autistic and has got herself into a right state. Very distressed and anxious and unable to make decisions currently

Double whammy of being autistic AND a teenage girl.

Please cheer me up, I’m exhausted ☹️

i have the same except mine is a boy!

usual tantrums occur when its time to shower or do his chores! the funny one this week was him refusing to get out of his sleeping bag in the tent saying that he "doesnt like it and wants to go home" i wanted him out so i could put the tent down to go home!!

transitions are tricky. not helped by the whole routine about to change when back to school this week.

My 12 year old often laugh about the time "I beat him with a plastic bag"

He was meant to be doing his homework but was procrastinating, and there was an empty plastic bag on the table next to him, so I've picked it up while telling him just to get on with his work. Well the bag flew up a bit as I've picked it up and it hit him on the cheek.
Well that was it. Full tantrum. To the point he phoned my mum in tears, sobbing "she hit me with a plastic bag"

He sees the funny side now thankfully

@HerRoyalRisesAgain how old is he now? When did he outgrow this stage?

Oh sorry, he's 12 now. This happened last year.

If my stroppy brothers are anything to go by then they could well be 20 before they get over themselves 😬

@memememe how did you persuade him?

Well my 10 year old will cry if I tell him to stop using the computer.
It's only going to get worse, isn't it?

15 year old girl and 10 year olds twins here.

You have never seen anything like the upset in this house if the WiFi goes off!! Seriously - actual tears and a full on tantrum from dd15!!! Every time.

[quote bendmeoverbackwards]@memememe how did you persuade him?[/quote]
i didnt. there was no rush.

just explained that we were all packed and ready to go, just needed the sleeping bag, his bed and the tent then we could leave, so id wait for him to be ready. he emerged about 10 mins later. theres definitely some pda in there as well so it needed to be his choice.

ive learned to lower my expectations and when we have a deadline to meet i double the time i think it will take for us to get ready. makes a less stressed mum!

Ours goes into full meltdown if you 'laugh' at them and by laugh I mean smile at something they're saying when it's not what they deem to be an appropriate time to smile even if it has made you smile (for a perfectly reasonable reason). Its complicated!

My DD at 16 told me she had tried to rebel but her heart wasn’t in it. Sadly we hadn’t even noticed.

@Herbie0987

I love that, she sounds a bit like me as a teenager.