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.

Sending the dd into her pit tomorrow we go on holiday next week im not sure she has enough clean pants im sure ive been washing the same 3 pairs on rotation she is actually minging

Today i asked my 18 year old dd to come out of her room before she went to work at 6pm. I got told how much she hates this family. I still cooked a lovely meal to make sure she got through her shift till 10pm. gave her a hug. Feel a little depressed. Probably all my fault. Where's my wine?.

Dont feel down teenagersknowitall, your user names says it all

Dont feel down teenagersknowitall, your user names says it all

Unless of course you didn't do AP then it so totally is your fault, natch.

Is anyone else sort of glad that they're not Antumbra's daughter?

I've only got an eight year old, I know I am in for it. Ds has such a way of going What?!?! that I know that I'll have my hands full. At least I still get cuddles, for now.

Ha thank you Cocolepew. It's a rollercoaster that's for sure! ;)

Sorry but is there any other sort of parenting than ap?
I've had five of the buggers and I could barely put them down as it was, what the hell is the difference?
I carrie them about cos they couldn't walk.
I co slept inadvertently because I fell asleep whilst they were having yet another damn feed,
I cuddled them when they cried and fed them when they were hungry, I fail to see the difference.
I've had my 3 yr old hangin around my legs all day and my 30 yr old is always here wanting to be fed, borrow money, babysit etc etc.
AP my arse.

16yo DD decided to finish unpacking from school yesterday! She has been home since Tuesday and already filled the laundry basket 3 times!

Stupid me had asssumed she had unpacked but no, the actual school uniform and week old dirty sports kit made an appearance in the kitchen. It was pretty damn humming and it was only an hour before our weekend guests were arriving.

Have suggested the suitcase it came home in could do with an airing before repacking it with the laundered uniform and sports kit only to be met with blank look!

Butterfly - the Typhoid Cake looks impressive!!

Sorry but what is AP?

Antumbra parenting??

I just dragged tried to bring my kids up the best I could - was there really an instruction manual no-one told me about?

swazza were there crumbs?
I washed dds blazer but not before I fished out two cellophane wrappers containing the remains of s sausage roll and some shortbread. Truly gross.

Dd is catching on to empty her pockets. I found a ripped up dentention slip and sweet wrappers that she spends her dinner money on

Ha ha.
Ive told dd shes having a few days of packed lunches next term to save money, I anticipate finding a few squashed sarnies.
Funny earlier, for some reason I was getting her I messages and she and a friend were talking "boys" I popped on to tell them I could read their convo and got some wrath

LauraMipsum, I award you a mystery cupcake for coming pretty close to understanding what DD was on about.

Turns out that they often have a party/picnic outside on the last Friday of each half-term, followed by Geography. DD has been offering the spare cupcake (of several dozen bought for it, goodness knows how) to her geography teacher, if it's geography after lunch break, and thus the usually grumpy geography teacher has a soft spot for DD.

And this should apparently have been quite clear from what she said. Despite no one previously mentioning geography, cupcakes, or indeed dietary habits...

lancelottie - how could you not have understood all of that from what she said???!!

Dc sometimes does that. Speaks about something random out of the blue then gets cross when I don't know wat she means

I'm not even sure Antumbra has children let alone teenagers.

I just have one pre teen (just 11yrs) who is already having 'her moments' but luckily for me she takes after me and just wants to be ALOOOOOOOOOONNNE . But I also have a dd2 who is 7 nearly 8 and I am not looking forward to her hitting teenage years as she is already erm interesting.

So it's less than 24 hours since we left DSS (nearly 20!) home alone and one of us needs to travel back 3 hours this morning to see the damage caused by the impromptu party which started 2 hours after we left and only ended after police visits.
We're in a hotel room with DD who's 7 so she has heard some of what we've been told about party and is a little upset. I am heartbroken to think how she'd feel if she knew that DSSs "friends" have been drinking in her room, wearing her clothes outside and some of her toys are messed up / possibly missing.
I may not be responsible for my actions when I get home.

Oh my goodness, poor ypu, how bloody awful.
He's a bit bloody old to do that isn't he?
Can you drop off dd somewhere before you go home?
No point upsetting her further.
I hope it's not as bad as u think xx

I'm not even sure Antumbra has children let alone teenagers.

Is anyone else sort of glad that they're not Antumbra's daughter?
Why would that be?

Don't blame me for your dysfunctional families. My teenagers are living a very happy life. We choose to live life without teem dramas. No-one walks on eggshells, no-one shouts or slams doors. My kids are generous, kind, happy, hilarious, loving and helpful.
Teens get such a bad press, I want to redress the balance. I was warned about how bad teenagers are but nothing could have been further from the truth. I feel priviliged to share these few short years with my children while they blossom into adults.

Thanks Ledkr yes he is far too old for this crap. We never left him at 16/17 when we could have expected this but now??!! We are in a gorgeous hotel and I've had no sleep for worrying.
One of us will probably go home today to check on things while the other entertains DD as we don't want her going home to this.
My family have been over to clean up last night but can't tell if anything missing.
I am so angry that people of that age have so little regard for other people's homes.

Antumbra what exactly are you getting out of this thread?

catz
It's shame to spoil your break, can family take him untill you go home?
Take him daily to clean up the mess?
What has he said? Is he remorseful?

I am defending teens. I hate the bas press they get.

If this thread was started by some guy talking about "wife fucking dramas" he would quite rightly have his guts on a plate.
I dislike to hear of our teenagers being talked of in such disrepectful and disparaging terms.
If we treat our teenagers disrepectfully then they will probably behave badly.
We need to think about our own conduct before we go blaming our teens.