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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.

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/12/2021 22:16

his dad called the seagulls he feeds several times a day his 'adopted children '

Snowy I always called the (now dearly departed) guinea-pigs My Good Children , they are all the vegetables and we're unreasonably excited by a bag of parsley .
Never asked me for new clothes or new shoes .

I'm on the fence with how the cats rate on the GoodChildO'Meter .
They insist on wearing real fur , shit in a box in the corner of the room and I;m sure they swear at me under their breath.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/12/2021 22:18

ate all the vegetables (ffs I can spell , honest ! )

Sofuckingsad · 12/12/2021 22:20

I went into the kitchen when she was cooking.

MrsPnut · 12/12/2021 22:42

I shouted and clapped today when she scored a try, doing it for her team mates is fine just not for her.

PyongyangKipperbang · 12/12/2021 22:48

Got given a box of chocolates as a gift from work and didnt immediately declare them a free for all as "obviously they are a family gift because you couldnt work without me" Apparently pointing out that if it werent for him I wouldnt need to work was not the correct response.

Marshwawows · 13/12/2021 03:19

I needed to read this thread! I dared to express an opinion earlier. Also, sometimes, I dare to go into their room and ask questions. Confused

Currently awake as one of them woke me ...

ErinAoife · 13/12/2021 03:41

Mine is not talking to me as for once I stood up for myself and have the courage to tell him that I won't bother asking him anything anymore as he always let me down and to enjoy his time with his girlfriend, his dad and his new partner instead of being home and minding his sister as promised.

Seriously79 · 13/12/2021 03:43

Asked him to wear a coat when it was raining 🙄

BobCatBob · 13/12/2021 03:57

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FightTheFlatEarth · 13/12/2021 04:01

@MrsPnut

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.

In most of these, if not all, the teenager was definitely the unreasonable one. In this case however, you were being very unreasonable. She was busy. You could have waited.
EveningPrimeMinister · 13/12/2021 07:07

@Sofuckingsad

I went into the kitchen when she was cooking.
As soon as I hear all the cupboards start banging I go in and say 'I just need the biscuits!' and slyly open the window on the way back in case there's smoke ...
MrsPnut · 13/12/2021 07:29

@FightTheFlatEarth As my DD plays D&D about 5 nights a week and she is supposed to check that it’s ok to start a campaign but didn’t, I don’t feel the slightest bit of guilt. She wasn’t busy, she was avoiding doing revision and chores.

onanotherday · 13/12/2021 07:33

@Lindy2

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.

...very familiar..I must keep doors closed so I can't be heard eating or scraping a plate....DD is ASC too.
Stompythedinosaur · 13/12/2021 07:38

I asked my pre-teen to look in the dryer to get a school shirt.

UnicornPug · 13/12/2021 08:03

Mine is incandescent that her laptop has had to go away to be repaired. It won’t turn on at all and is completely fucked. She is livid because she has stuff to do on it and wanted to wait until after her deadlines have passed. Pointing out that we could have waited but she still couldn’t use it on account of the fact that it’s DEAD was WRONG. And then I committed the cardinal sin of mentioning that I’d drop an email to her teacher (he of the deadline and it’s music composition which she can’t complete on any of our other devices) explaining the circumstances. She went off like a rocket about that!

Paradoxically when she fell asleep on her phone and I took a picture of her and me and sent it to her bestie saying ‘if you’re waiting on a reply it may be some time’ then had a quick text chat with the friend all on her phone, that was fine.

JenniferWooley · 13/12/2021 08:23

I got up too early & made my own coffee! I should've stayed in bed for an extra hour until she decided to crawl out of her pit as she wanted to make me coffee in bed & it doesn't matter that I have to leave the house at 8:30am (as does she) because it's my birthday & she wanted to do something nice for me!

FrancescaContini · 13/12/2021 08:30

@WomblingKnobhead

Mentioned that her new skirt was the same pattern as my tea towel...and held said tea towel over my pelvis for effect. Also (in my defence) said "I like it"

On reflection possibly it wasn't as funny as I found it. 😆

😆 my younger DD would FREAK OUT if I did this!
NoPinkPlease · 13/12/2021 12:10

I laughed when she said that huskies were the best dogs for talking as though they were actually speaking English. Then, when I realised she was serious, I didn't stop laughing quick enough.

scooterbear · 13/12/2021 12:34

Refused to drive her a two hour round trip on Saturday and pick her up-(so just the 4 hours in the car)-so she can see her boyfriend. She won't have him come to our house because it's old (we live in a 15th century cottage which people often say is very pretty ) and thus embarrassing and why can't we move immediately?

MissAmbrosia · 13/12/2021 12:48

I wished mine good luck for her exams today.

EveningPrimeMinister · 13/12/2021 13:00

Sccoterbear that made me laugh. Our dd thinks we're very unreasonable to carry on living in an old (1950's) house, when there are many new builds springing up all around us that we could buy.

sashh · 13/12/2021 13:40

I don't have children but I have many years of teaching teenagers.

I had one burst in to tears because I put the radio on while they were working, it was the channel she wanted to listen to but not the song as it was her and her ex's song.

I asked them to put some sex toys away and stop throwing them around the room.

I refused to mark some work because it was a direct copy from the text book - not just a strop but went to the head of year to complain about me.

I allowed students with headphones to listen to their music while they completed a task, this was unfair to those who did not have headphones and the radio on wasn't good enough.

Having said that, 90% of teenagers are fabulous, compassionate, human beings.

They just hide it.

SpookyScarySkeletons · 13/12/2021 14:54

Almost a teen but I asked my 12yo to wash her hair yesterday because it was looking a bit greasy. I am unkind and insensitive apparently and she cried for about half an hour at the unfairness of it all. And stormed off to her room when I tried to comfort her.

(she is on her period at the moment but she is an absolute delight the other 23 days of each month so it's not all bad. But I swear those hormones are going to do me in one day!!)

BiddyPop · 14/12/2021 08:47

We also have regular strips about the size of the house ;perfectly adequate 3 bed 1980s semi, she has massive attic room, we've massively upgraded over the 20 years we've lived here, but there are no straight walls to throw balls at and the garden is way too small - there is a massive green out front and it's just not feasible to take on massive debt for her need for a wall to throw a ball at.

MissAmbrosia · 14/12/2021 21:01

@SpookyScarySkeletons

Almost a teen but I asked my 12yo to wash her hair yesterday because it was looking a bit greasy. I am unkind and insensitive apparently and she cried for about half an hour at the unfairness of it all. And stormed off to her room when I tried to comfort her.

(she is on her period at the moment but she is an absolute delight the other 23 days of each month so it's not all bad. But I swear those hormones are going to do me in one day!!)

We had dreadful ructions over showering and hair washing during the early teen years - "So you're telling me I look minging then?" And when I suggested making an appointment to get our hair cut - "So I am ugly then, it that what you are saying?" Me - Confused. She's much better now, though apparently would still rather be dead than take her Biology exam this week.
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