How have you already upset your kids today?

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It’s twenty past 9 and my 4 year old DSS is crying because I wouldn’t let him have a curly wurly for breakfast (very wicked step mother over here)

Anyone else already upset their kids today? Haha!

The bagels have seeds on. Apparently this is enough for dd (11) to walk off in a huff. Am wondering how long it will take for her to realise she’s hungry and noone is going to run after her and beg her to eat breakfast.

Just woke up 13 year old - apparently it's important he gets his sleeps in now because school is around the corner and he has no idea when he'll ever get to sleep again ...

@bracemyselfagain similar here funnily enough. School is next week so I said the sleep training starts now. God they are lazy teens.

My 15 year old is upset because I didn't wake her to dog walk with me this morning.

She refuses to accept that I tried and she sat up, went "absolutely not", threw a pillow at me and went back to sleep.

It was clearly my fault that the gym didn't open early enough this morning (DS17)
'Tis also my fault that his bike had a puncture, the garage haven't finished fixing his motorbike AND is had the audacity to rain today 🙄
Anyone else occasionally give a closed bedroom door the middle finger or is it just me?

Nearly 11 year old DD, I wouldn't share my toast! She already made herself some before and had got more off DH when he was eating his. It's not like she's starved! Someone call childline for her because I'm clearly a terrible mum for not sharing.

Yes but when I say 'occasionally' the occasions are almost daily at this point.

3 and a half year old - VERY upset (inconsolable) that his extremely tatty old trainers have gone in the bin.

Dear Reader, he put them in the bin himself.

I pulled him up on a lie and he was angry that I was able to tell that he wasn't telling the truth.

Not today but I once upset sd in boots

She chose what she 'needed' (read 'wanted') and I went to pay,using my bank card

I'm the 'most embarrassing r*tard in the world' (apologies-I don't use that word) for using my bank card

When asked if cash would have been OK,she screamed at me and stormed out

She then rang her idiot mother (who is always looking for a reason to say I was unreasonable just to score points) to back her up and I was in the wrong to pay for sds goods in any way,shape or form

She was 18 at the time

(Thankfully her dad backed me up over this but I never got an apology)

My own dd (aged about 4 at the time) had a paddy because she wanted to go to the 'biscuit shop' (tesco)

We where in the car park,about to go in,but that wasn't good enough apparently

@Pebblesflintstoneandbambamrubble blimey, that's not lighthearted. Are things any better now?

I asked my DD (17) to wipe some crumbs off the side. How dare I 😂

I don't speak to her
shes very spoilt and used to getting her own way
the final straw was her having another tantrum because i refused to give her my wages (backed up by her mother) after refusing to get a job herself

I haven't upset 11 year old DD at all today <beams>. Unfortunately her Dad is 'embarrassing her to death' by wearing shorts she doesn't like.

Ds13 - I didn’t respond to his text message in a millisecond cue - hello, hello, why are you ignoring me, answer me etc. I’m working today.

Ds7 - I won’t buy him a bed with a slide. We bought him a new bed six months ago after the old one broke, I’m not getting him a bed with a slide that he’ll grow out of in the next few years when he has a perfectly good (and expensive) bed that could last him longer and is brand new!

Dh - I want him to walk the dog when I’m at work. I work long shifts and I don’t want to get back home and then have to take a hyperactive dog on a walk.

I "forced" (her words) my DD12 to wash up after lunch
There were two plates, two glasses and two knives
I was wfh and she was still in her pjs sitting on the sofa with obligatory phone in hand.
I had to laugh about how incredulous she was when I asked her.

Might blow her mind and ask her to do it again tomorrow

I asked dd21 just moved home from uni if she was enjoying rewatching Game of Thrones. Apparently I am micro managing her. Also got shouted at when she asked me to buy her a new oodie for Christmas and I said I would just wash the one she has.

I sat and had a chat with DS (14) this morning, asking how his cold was as he has the orthodontist this morning.
Did he feel ill or just sound grotty? Coughing and blocked nose etc.

I said I'd call the ortho to check whether they'd still want him to come. They do so I told him and then go on with my day.

5 mins later he trots downstairs saying "I'll get the 9.50 bus to the gym, please can you then collect me later".

How do you politely tell someone that we literally JUST had a conversation (an actual 2 way interaction, not me just telling him stuff) about what was happening that morning?!

I told him he had the orthodontist and then he stomped off back upstairs all hard done by. nb he can go this afternoon. And I'd rather not interrupt my working day to take him for a more than 2 hour round trip to the bloody ortho anyway.