teen fucking dramas!!

[Mintyy]

I mean really and truly, aibu?

If you've never trod on eggshells before, you certainly will when you become owner of a teen.

That is all.

Ref walking anywhere...

a few yeas ago:

Me 'do you fancy coming for a walk with dogs?'
DSD 'oh yes!' (she does still really like walking the dogs)

furthest point of the walk.........

DSD 'can you ring my dad and ask him to come and pick us up'........

I remember doing some really stupid things just to prove the point that "YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"

YY to being cold and uncomfortable rather than simply do as I was told. I seem to recall thinking "Hah, that'll teach you" without following that thought on with "because I am here in the shed in the cold and stinking of creosote when I could be inside in the warm, with the TV.....like everyone else is...." :o

NO!!! I've done my time!
I have a cunning plan though Pray that eldest DC has his own place by the time youngest DC hits teenage angst so they can live together and I get sweet revenge on the years of toiletries theft, empty fridge, stinking bedrooms and foul tempers

Thank you for this thread. Was getting a bit weepy earlier about fact that DD(13) and DS(11) only put down their devices / leave their rooms to shout, eat, demand money or lifts. This despite rules about screen time and internet programmed to go off at 8.30pm. Obviously EVERYONE else is allowed to do whatever they want whenever they want. It's just me that's mean.

DD has at least almost stopped door slamming - because DH has taken to removing her door for 24 hours after each episode - we have cracks in the wall by her door as a direct result of her temper.

Yes hiding make up, toiletries and San pro!!!

Dd once left me with none I had to hunt through old handbags from weddings etc in the hope of finding one to use until I got to the chemist.

She could have just asked I work in a flippin chemist.

DS (15) has been off for a week with flu so DS (17) has been trying it on. Came down this morning to find him 'asleep' on the sofa. Kitchen has plates from him in it and I've just counted the doughnuts in the Krispy Kreme box - he hasn't snaffled any. Through fear or sickness?! He has managed to go out and meet his friends though

Apparently we are "Soooo Cooooool - my friends love you". I am worried she is rebelling by not being a teenager. I don't know what stories she is telling because one of her friends is not allowed to visit our house because we are not responsible.

Love this thread! DD is 12 but already showing signs - eye-rolling, 'she was like' 'I was like' conversations, complicated arrangements for the simplest get together, a truly impressive collection of £1 shop body sprays (she would kill for Hollister room spray!). She's doing well at school though and pretty good company most of the time but I can't help imagining her changing overnight when she hits 13 like Kevin in the Harry Enfield sketch. Incidentally we've showed her a few of those and she can't see for the life of her why they're so funny .

I have a lovely 13 yr old son, he is loving and caring. he is a pleasure to spend time with. Unfortunately he only appears for about 10 mins each week. The rest of the time I have to deal with a stroppy, obnoxious and horribly moody thing that is unable to speak in sentences at a normal volume. He just mumbles a grunt then screams a few words when I ask him what he said.

I also have a 3 yr old who behaves in a similar way but thankfully isn't taller than me.

I have 16 yrs to go until teenage years are over.

Oh god. The orange one has PMT

13 year old just texted to say is having dinner at a friends but is "potentially" sleeping over so stand by to bring my pyjamas and stuff! Yes, my liege lord.

Ds3 was out at a party last night. He told us he would probably be staying over - but apparently that changed. We found out about the change at 12.48am, when he rang, to wake us out of a deep sleep, to ask for a lift home.

Luckily he spoke to his father, who is much nicer than me, so he got his lift home, instead of a lecture that would have blistered his ears, and a suggestion that he could walk!

16year old appeared before 9am today which was a shock. However she was holding her laptop and has been on the sofa with it all day, still in her pjs.

Suggestions that she got up and do something has been met with "I've done loads today". That means she made a cup of tea and put her plate in the dishwasher after lunch.

I am not handing them out, nobody sends party invites these days.
Me- oh really and how do you expect your friends to know when, where, what time the paintballing is?
I''ll tell them.
Me- and they will retain that info for the next three weeks will they?
Yes.
Me- and their parents won't be wondering where they have gone for the day
Mumbles.
And you won't mind when a few don't show up despite us paying for them and not being able to invite anyone else cos we didn't know...
Ok you can send them but you are not to talk to them about anything that we talk about....promise..
Me:- ok argggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
And. All this because I am trying to ensure he has an enjoyable birthday.

We are waiting to go out. A teen in our party is having huge fucking strop as she can't find an item of clothing. We are half an hour late. She is screaming at her dm.Her mum is necking wine (she isn't mine btw, or she would be staying in)

Go out without her turtles

this thread had definately made me lol- esp bogey. I NO LONGER HAVE TEENAGERS IN THE HOUSE !(although I continue to be a functioning alcoholic). my youngest turned 20 this week . they are lovely now but can identify with everything that has been said. I have cried a lot tho -esp as my boy was at uni but has packed it in with no clear idea about what he wants to do with his life . but I am happy that he is well and it is so sad for those who are dealing with depressed/anxious /bullies teens .

nooddsocksforme, does the teenagitis disappear overnight? I'm just living for that day sometimes.

I was in matalan today, wandering around with DD when I heard a tween telling her mum to zip it. Mum kept talking, tween then quite crossly repeated "Just zip it" I was feeling for her mum and thinking about this thread when I actually saw them. Trying a dress on . They were on the shop floor and the girl was fully clad, including a woolly jumper. The dress did zip....eventually. Made me laugh tho.

Catz there is a pleasant 5 year interlude before they start parenting you........

It is so lovely having the teenagers back from school for the holidays.

My 17 year old DD has today told me I'm beginning to look a bit frumpy, and would I like to hire her to be my personal shopper for the holidays? Errr I think I'll pass, thanks all the same petal. This resulted in a huffy sigh and a muffled "Gawwwwwwwd, only trying to help you look, like, reasonable."

15 year old DS is like the silent assassin. Slinks around the house eating food, glaring at everyone and leaving behind various smells and crumbs before disappearing back into his cave room. I couldn't tell you the last time I got some reasonable conversation from him. He must talk to the NME posters plastered all over his walls. The walls he painted black last Summer.

My triplets have just turned 13 last month. clutches wine glass DD is emotional, hates school, hates people, and strongly believes only horses will ever understand her. Lots of door slamming. Until DH inserted a 'slow close' device without her knowing. Was pretty hilarious trying to watch her slam the door that time.

The two boys are luckily still my funny, cheeky chaps. For now...

TTSShere you need this more than me.

CATZ-not over night in my experience but surely and slowly. Just after both my boys packed in uni the same year (it was not good) ds1 told me that he had been talking to ds2 in the kitchen at 4am and they had said how amazing we had been to support them through it all . It meant so much . slowly we are getting back on the right course,