Well AM I!! Am I the worst mother in the history of mother???

[MaureenMLove]

God give me strength!!

DD (15) is going on a school trip tomorrow, so she needs a packed lunch.

I have offered her the following items, with which I will gladly make a packed lunch.

Tuna
cheese
sweetcorn
bacon
ham
salad
pasta
pitas
bread
wraps
sausages
egg

'Have a look and you decide' I say.

Huff, huff, huff 'Oh, there's nothing to eat in this house!!' I get!

Sod ya then, go hungry!!!

Not too unreasonable, is it?

"He takes a fancy to tuna, so I buy tuna. He wants it every day for 3 or 4 weeks, so I start buying in bulk. I offer him tuna on the 5th week and he says, 'nah, I've gone off tuna!' "
My DH is exactly the same. At the moment it's tea bags. He used to drink bog standard tea by the bucket, so I stocked up on tea bags. Then he decided he preferred earl grey, so when they were on offer I stocked up. Then he switched to decaffeinated I'm not buying any more until the ones that are there are drunk, I don;t care how wide awake he'll be. He keeps saying they won't go off...that's not the point WE HAVE AN ENTIRE CUPBOARD FULL OF TEA BAGS

She's 15. I'd've left her to make her own packed lunch by taking whatever she found in the cupboards that she fancied.

I've a DH and DD who 'go off' things. Not the same things, of course.

Bought some onion bread specially for DD because she absolutely loved it, only to be greeted with 'thats ^disgusting' WTF?

DuffyMoons DD is like mine, only ever hear what she doesn't want that we've got, not what she does want.

DH is a shade worse -- he'll do the shopping, I provide list including 'get any meat/fish you want for lunch' ... then find him staring hungrily into the fridge and asking me what there is to eat.

Btw, sal, how are you feeling today?

I remember saying that exact same thing to my poor old mum.

I wonder what I meant by it...

I'd heard of this Kevin thing. I'd seen Harry Enfield do this sketch and I kept thinking, 'yeah right, that doesn't really happen', but it so does!

And it doesn't just happen on the day they turn 13. It flits in and out, when you least expect it!

On Monday night, she came home from school and annouced, she was cooking dinner. She cooked, from scratch, herb chicken in a cider and mushroom sauce. Followed by chocolate and cardamon mousse! Fabulous.

On Tuesday night we had a stonker of a row because I told her her school uniform needed ironing. She claimed she couldn't do it! So, I was born with an iron in my hand, was I? Bloody well start trying!!

This morning, she ironed her shirt and my trousers!

I give up!

YABU

Send her to Greggs on her way to school!

She did that this morning!

DS1 always rings me at work when he gets in from school on a Monday and Tuesday. The first thing I say to him is "have you got any homework, if so get on with it". He always moans and when I get home I find him doing anything but his homework.

So Tuesday I remember after he has got home that I need some ham from the butchers. I ring him and he says "but muuuuuuuuuum I am doing my homework" . Yeah, right.

Haha...my13 yr old bought nachos, salsa and chewing gum(!) for lunch today....once they leave the house with lunch money we cannot be judged/blamed for what they buy!!

jamie oliver would hunt me down and have me hung.nuff said

Next time give her a fiver and tell her to pick up a McD if she passes one....

I think Jamie Oliver woiuld hunt me down and give me a slap!!

OP - I think you'll find that the job of being the world's worst mum is mine, mine, I tell you mine!! :o

I have been reliably informed by DD on several occasions.

Fact.

That is, when I'm not being the worst teacher in the world. Who knows nothing. Same source; and I don't even teacher her!

Or even teach her.

you didn't offer ber blinis, caviar & champers.
She should call the NSPCC

It's a well known fact that as soon as your DC's become teenagers you are supposed to become psychic!

Did no one get the memo...

We have no DC's at the moment and I do find my friends stories of their devil teenagers quite amusing... I wont be laughing when it's us...

Ah, see, she's my baby again tonight!

I've been out, straight after work and only just got in. She's text me several times, against Daddys wishes, because she needed to know something, that only I could answer! Daddy told her to leave me be, because I was out.

I came in and obviously, she's dead to the world, but I gave her a kiss on the head and she snuffled and gave me a smile!

They are so sweet when they're asleep, even if they are teenagers!

All is right with the world again. Until next time....

ds insists I make his sandwiches rather than picking one up (annoying, as its cheaper for me to buy them) unless its Waitrose. Then its ok.

OP, I wish I could be half that reasonable.

Tell her to:
a) tell you at least a week in advance what she wants so that you can buy the ingredients
b) make her own packed lunch from what you already have in the cupboards.