Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

How have you upset your teenager today?

156 replies

FlyingFlamingo · 11/12/2021 17:33

I took mine to the cinema and expected her to share her giant bag of popcorn. This was very unreasonable of me. Obviously.

OP posts:
Santahatesbraisedcabbage · 11/12/2021 17:36

Asked her to cook the whole bag of pasta to feed her siblings also. Apparently that takes too long and why should she have to wait longer for her food?.
Bloody brat!!

Original poster
FlyingFlamingo · 11/12/2021 17:39

Another food related cruelty. We’re terrible people Santa Wink

Honestly, you’d think she’d been rescued from an Oliver Twist style orphanage where she was expected to fight for scraps rather than born into a well stocked home and fed 3 meals a day Hmm

OP posts:
Lushplease · 11/12/2021 17:42

I got my hair cut. Apparently it's embarrassing.

Original poster
FlyingFlamingo · 11/12/2021 17:44

I’m intrigued as to how a haircut can be embarrassing?

OP posts:
MrsPnut · 11/12/2021 17:45

Made her hang some Christmas decorations on the tree when she was in the middle of playing D&D with her friends online.

Apparently I wouldn't understand.

MollysDolly · 11/12/2021 17:47

Whipped his phone away and told him to make his sandwich properly, after he'd been in the kitchen holding the margarine in his hand, whilst glued to a video on his phone, for almost 15 minutes.

"For god sake I was watching that"

Grin
Alittlebitfat25 · 11/12/2021 17:47

Well, not a teenager but my 10 year old when through early puberty so basically the same things.

I told him he had to wear a top while playing outside this morning. Apparently I'm boring and he doesn't care if he gets sick.

Original poster
FlyingFlamingo · 11/12/2021 17:51

Well done for getting her involved MrsPnut, we gave up encouraging her to put her phone down and hang decorations on the tree. She’s since complained that the tree is not decorated to her standards. I’m surprised she’s even noticed it to be honest, as she generally only leaves her room for food.

OP posts:
Lushplease · 11/12/2021 17:51

@FlyingFlamingo

I’m intrigued as to how a haircut can be embarrassing?
Apparently it's too try-hard. Friends will think I'm trying to be trendy. How sad.
Lindy2 · 11/12/2021 17:51

I'm eating my dinner in the kitchen with the light on. I've been asked how long I need to be.

DD is teenager and has ASD. That makes things doubly fun.

Apparently lights on outside the room she's in is bad. I am however refusing to eat in the dark in my own house.

Knitter99 · 11/12/2021 17:55

I suggested mine might want to avoid running into to the sea in his trainers and getting them wet when we were going on to his grandparents straight afterwards. He told me I was a total idiot then stomped off home. So he kept his feet dry after all. I win!

OberthursGrizzledSkipper · 11/12/2021 17:59

Told mine that DH was taking her to her activity today instead of me. (I spend 2 hr 30m waiting in the car and she wouldn't know whether I was there or not.)

Original poster
FlyingFlamingo · 11/12/2021 18:03

Knitter that could easily have been written about a toddler Grin

OP posts:
Paranoidandroidmarvin · 11/12/2021 18:05

I breathed.

SpookyScarySkeletons · 11/12/2021 18:06

I told her girlfriend that her hair looked nice.

Apparently I'm a "try hard embarrassment"

little0miss0mac · 11/12/2021 18:07

I told my 14 year old DS that I wouldn't give him the lift he needed to play basketball outdoors today if he didn't wear a coat. It was 9 degrees and raining.

TheShadoutCrepes · 11/12/2021 18:08

I asked if the MASSIVE false eyelashes she was wearing felt weird and heavy when she blinked.

Might as well have thrown a bag of dog shit at her for the look she gave me back.

Tra la laaa. This too shall pass.

RandomMess · 11/12/2021 18:08

I basically breathed 🙄

cataline · 11/12/2021 18:12

I dared to not already know how to splice Live Photos to make a video which obviously makes me completely thick.

JKDinomum · 11/12/2021 18:13

I booked tickets for the cinema to see a film she's been keen to see. Apparently I should have known by telepathy that her favourite streamer would announce at 5pm they are doing "a very important stream" tonight. FFS.

NoShitHemlock · 11/12/2021 18:17

I made DD put a coat on over her hoodie this morning. My preference is for a child who doesn't come home with frostbite, but it was just "too much!"

When she arrived home some hours later she was carrying her bloody coat...

Wotrewelookinat · 11/12/2021 18:19

I committed the sin of asking her how day was when we both got back from work.

Bettalife · 11/12/2021 18:21

I put Rudolph antlers and a red nose on the car and then picked him up from his football match.

DeliaOwens · 11/12/2021 18:30

She didn't eat the big breakfast made for her and her siblings (as we were all going Christmas shopping and lunch would be late.) complained from about 12 moon that she was 'starving!' And when we offered to get her a crepe from a Christmas food truck she did a 'Kevin' level of sighing and complained that a crepe was useless when she was starving.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/12/2021 18:37

I've been ok with the teenager (19yo DD ) , I did ask her to wander round the local hops with me (bought her a Greggs so that was ok)

DS (22yo) I frced him round to the barbers and asked them to sort him (ie tidy his scruffy little face) which they did . He whinged that it cost £25 .......... I paid and I knew it was £25 'cos I checked

But today he had a driving lesson and I didn;t embarass him by waving , so I'm back in the game Grin

Swipe left for the next trending thread