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.

Brummies ought to be fitted with machines to correct their vowels!

We've just been out for dinner with DS because DD was at her friend's house. As DH and I were talking, DS kept interrupting with silly quips and it was driving me mad. I asked him to please stop, but we would be very happy to have him join the conversation in a sensible way.

He put the hood of his sweatshirt up and pulled the cord tight. I must have looked horrified because he mumbled through the fabric, "This is the only way I can make myself sensible... sozroc."

It was lovely and quiet for all of 5 minutes after that .

Andrewofgg
Naaaaaaaaw !

Antumbra - teens are not just going through hormonal changes, their brains are restructuring, according to Charlie Taylor. If I recall his book correctly (I gave it to a friend, and can't check), he likens it to temporary brain damage - mild and transient, of course - but that does help explain why some teens lose all empathy, or the ability to control their tempers - and why it is, to some extent, out of their control.

And no-one is 'dissing' them - we are laughing together here, instead of trying to cope on our own, fearing that everyone else is coping far better, and we are the parental failures.

By trying to kill this thread, you are taking away a valuable safety valve that many of us need. You don't need it - you are lucky - but why do you want to take it away from those who do? Are you so determined to impose YOUR view that you can't - or won't - consider the needs and feelings of others?

Signing in to the barely surviving teens club too..

Apparently her friends all have much better mothers then she does the poor lamb.

Todays crime was not using my psychic ability to know that she wanted to wear a certain top today so that I might have found it buried under every other item of clothing that she owns in time to have it washed and ironed ready for her this morning.

none of her other friends have this trouble. They all have mums who collect all washing and bring it back moments later perfectly clean you see.

Last week she told me I don't care about her and that I'm smothering her all in the same sentence. My crime was to not buy the cereal she liked but then dare suggest I make her some toast instead...

Andrew well orite to you too!

Well said Staying

I think I will record ohmyGodmomi'mdoinit as it's their most used phrase and funnily enough completely inaccurate and untrue.

Mine today:

DS2: OMG where's my black concert shirt? [Frantic searching of house till I said:]
Can he just borrow yours if it's clean, DS1?
DS1: Nah, I wore both of them this week for work.
Me: But you don't have two of them, DS1. That means you've been wearing his, and you've just watched us all search the house for the past 30 minutes...

Wow!!! Just got a nice text from DD!

She is 17 and staying with her friend, I knew that alcohol would be involved and I am ok with that. She gets a bit tipsy and then falls asleep, she is a lightweight like me! So I put a large bottle of water in her with a post-it saying "Drink me before bed!"

Just got a text saying she had found it and she loved me. I think.

"Gone the walker. I LUV YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO haaha!" I think we can safely say that drink has been taken :D She is not back until early afternoon so the worst of the hangove should be gone by then!

in her BAG!

Yesterday dd was making chocolate brownies, I took the bowl when she was finished and offered to wash it up for her ( she gets sore skin with washing up liquid) , queue dd storming off up to her room. Even my other teen was bemused by that one.
She did explain later that I had " implied she was incapable of washing the bowl" obviously , silly me wanting to prevent a flare up of weeks of moaning about sore hands.

Muddi

Go to her tomorrow with an apology and a pair of Marigolds.

"Darling, I realise how insulting I was yesterday so I bought you these so that you can do all of the washing up from now on :)"

Thank you so much for this thread (and boo sucks to those trying to imply that there is an implication that the teens are not loved).

Oh my goodness the teens are loved - to the detriment of the other children at times.

I have a 16yr old DS - GCSE's fast approaching.

2pm today - mum I really need you to nag me to do revision. It's honestly OK to nag because it helps.

3pm - Mum I'm going to do some revision today so I won't go and see GF - I mean I need to prepare for my 6th form interviews tomorrow...

7pm (having done NO revision) - mum I'm off out to the village, back in a couple of hours

Me: so what about revision?
Him: are you being serious?
Me: Um yes, you said you were going to do revision today
Him: Now really is not the time
Me: But you said you were going to do revision. You also said I could nag so that is what I am doing, I'm nagging
Him: Well this is really the wrong time to do that - get off my case FFS
Me: (being sarcastic) OK, well if there's a timetable for the nagging you really need to let me know when it's OK and when it's not
Him: I bloody will

2 hours later he's back. WITH A FECKING TIMETABLE. I can nag any time before 4pm on any day. After that nagging is not acceptable. Oh and nagging doesn't involve asking again and again. It's a gentle reminder.... once...

Haha, and if he hasn't actually done it before 4pm and he decides he's going out then you are stuffed because it's officially too late to nag according to the timetable.

bogey hope she's ok today

Hilarious posts.

It's the flashes of humour and insight that they know when they have been ridiculous and totally unreasonable and have to laugh with you.

My older lads are in their 20s now and we regularly laugh about their loopiness during the teenage years.

My 24 year old was cooking for the teen girls the other day and looking increasingly harassed due to their culinary demands and informed me they were spoilt, unreasonable and a pita.

Loving the timetable for nagging!

DD is "feeling very optimistic" for her parent/teacher interviews tomorrow. Shes seems to be under the impression if its good she can dye her hair purple

When your teenage son refuses to sit in the front of the car with you ,instead he slinks halfway past the window in the backseat so no friends can see him in the car with mum.
Once we are safely out of town he climbs into the front seat !
Also strict instructions not to answer the front door incase it's his friends ??
Or walk near him down the street , he walks so fast to get away from me that I'm practically sprinting to keep up !!
Where did my little pumpkin pie go ??

Purple well my orange one has various shades of red in her hair. Her oldest brother told her she looked like a lit match.

And of course they are working at school for you not their benefit. How silly we are.

bogey how is she today that made dd was at her friends birthday party a few weeks ago she was staying over I text her how was the party a few wkds had been consumed I think because I said night she said night iI love you man

So they love us more after alcohol just like we do too. Interesting research here.

she's "tired" and wasnt drunk. Not at all. Not even a little bit.....

Yes been studying too hard!

Only one bottle of WKD says, must have been the size of a Jeraboam! :o