What lighthearted thing has gone wrong for your teenager today?

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Me and 13 year old DD walk part of the way to her school together. This morning the wind was blowing the wrong way and messing her hair up! I suggested she walked backwards..

Not just unfair, but SOOO UNNFAAIIR 😂

No teen drama here so far today. DD is poorly and feeling sorry for herself, I fed her hot chocolate and she has been sweet and cuddly, which has been very lovely.

She hasn't emptied the dishwasher yet (her chosen chore) so I'm trying to decide whether to risk unleashing The Grump or just do it myself (I'm also ill).

The DVLA didn't airbrush his pimple out of his provisional licence photo.

stealth onions

😂

When I was a secondary school, I remember a grievance by a fellow pupil: for a teamwork exercise, she was blindfolded. She eventually completed the task, but then the teacher then decided this was too difficult (and had taken too much time), so allowed the next person to see while they were doing it. She was most put out by this!

Yes, this all rings fairly true for me 25 years ago as well

A boy hit her on the head with a Frisbee. And now all the boys are laughing about the Inbetweeners episode. And she now, 1. Has a black eye and, 2. Doesn't know what the Inbetweeners is and is VERY annoyed.
Boo hoo. You cant make this shit up.

My 14 year old's period was due and I didn't unlock the car door in time before she tried the handle 😬 she reminded me about it again after school! I wish I had those sorts of problems 🫣

Me nagging DD to agree to have a non-urgent GP appointment:
Her: No offence, but I think that’s something unresolved in you, rather than me actually needing an appointment” 👀🤔

Today’s was her hair got wet at football training - it was raining so no real surprise. She always washes her hair on Tuesdays when she gets home from said training so does it really matter?

DS 15 is annoyed that we are not Japanese and living in Tokyo.

Something went wrong for my teen which could have been catastrophic for the house!
I left for work at 8. He left for school shortly after. He then realised he’d forgotten his ADHD meds so came back to take them. Off he went to school after taking them and left the key in the yale lock on full display all day!

We live in zone 2 in London on a pretty busy street. I have no idea how the keys were still in the door at the end of the day and the house with all of its contents still intact!

I once did the same thing and there are some very dodgy characters around here and we got away with it too. I think its because we only hear about the arseholes and that most people are decent and wouldnt dream of stealing. Surprised no one took them to the nearest police station though and put a note through your door.

I knew it wouldn’t be long…

Email from the school saying DD missed her lunchtime detention/ reminded her she needed to attend, apparently she was ‘prioritising her mental health’ and that didn’t include ‘Sitting with my biology teacher who don’t even actually like’.

Told her that she could borrow my laptop charger if she didn’t mooch in bed with it (and break it like she did her own) - Teen outraged at the suggestion - further outraged when I caught her less than 20 mins later mooching in bed with said charger

I spent too long looking at her pet and was ‘making it weird’

The dog licked his knee.

@PyongyangKipperbang

I think you are right. We are led to believe the world is full of dishonest people which of course is incorrect.

Not the point of the thread (which I am loving) but DD lost her driving licence last week then it arrived back here in the post with a note saying where it had been found on our local high street. Thank goodness for lovely people!

I left a tiny bag of cat litter by the back door on the floor as I couldn't find the key. This resulted in CAPITAL LETTER TEXTS from 18 yo DS who was appalled beyond all human comprehension at this atrocity.

Two further traumas just in: his double chocolate muffin was too chocolatey, and the apple he bit into to take the taste away turned out to be a peach.

I was a teenager in the 80’s. I was mad about the TV show Dallas, and I remember being very put out my parents wouldn’t move us all to Dallas to live!

My favourite one was when my DS, then 15, was so unreasonable that he actually admitted it!

We travelled to a gig, staying overnight in a hotel, as the venue the band played in our city was strictly over 18s - the venue we went to required under 16 year olds to be accompanied by an adult.

He got into a grump as we were walking to the venue and was slouching and dragging his feet, but was still, somehow, going faster than me,

I did a scurry to catch up and asked him to slow down as I was going to lose him, and he said 'why do you make everything about you?'

I pointed out that this was entirely about me getting lost and not finding the gig, pre-google maps and he was insistent he knew the way.

He actually admitted I maybe had a point, and me not being able to keep up with him maybe about me.

High point of teenage years!

The ones about teens wanting to live somewhere else reminded me about my teenage strop about holidays. My family holidays were usually at a gite in France/camping in Wales. For some reason, I decided I really wanted to try eating locusts and (pre-internet) got it into my head that they could be eaten in Malta. My parents refused to go on an AI holiday to Malta to eat locusts. I was furious.

He’s trying to grow a mustache for Movember and it’s not really happening. Seems pretty phlegmatic.

i do hope it doesn’t work…. I hate mustaches…. Ah well, he’s 18 🤷‍♀️

Ooh yes the capital letter text. You know you have committed a major sin when those start up.

This made me laugh 😂

FINE.

I WILL JUST HAVE TO SUFFER WONT I.

WHY DO I HAVE TO STUDY. WHY CANT I DROP GEOGRAPHY. I HATE IT.

Please can you take me to Jessica's for 6, we are going to get a Dominoes and study. I will need some cash in my account and picked up about 11. Love you ❤

Repeat on the daily.

My DD also does the paper note YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS YOU ARE A HORRIBLE MOTHER.