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.

Oh, I hope he's just had a bad day. Unfortunately you seem to be bearing the brunt of it.

Sorry catz Ive just seen this. It went ok the teacher called her out of class again but just to thank her for her input. I reckon there was major eye rolling from DD.
We survived The Vamps, they weren't bad actually. Dd has dyed her hair red. She took a brush with her and fiddled with her hair the whole way up in the car, while admiring herself in the wing mirror. When we were in waiting for it to begin she decided it was annoying her and asked if I had a hair bobble. I have a pixie cut

Would he have any time to watch it in the morning ?

This is Josh Homme from Queens of the Stoneage. He uis incredible cool and ginger

That's good about your DD at school, Coco. I'm having dramas tonight of a more mature nature. DH left me to oversee new doors being installed and is now picking -every feckin tiny- fault with them. He's doing my head in and I think I prefer dealing with the DCs with all their dramas. At least theirs are more realistic (at least to them)

it makes me really sad that he is so down on being ginger. It was an issue at primary, he got teased for it, bit ironically at secondary his closest friend is also ginger and there are a whole lot of them (ginger hair obviously goes with brains ) I thought all the ginger stuff had died away.

How was your DS today steppemum?

ds woke up fine.

He has just asked for a sofa snuggle time instead of reading in bed, so we have had a snuggle and a natter.

He told me that they had a political 'hustings' in one class, and he and his friend had to be UKIP and Nigel Farage and he was really cross as being made to be UKIP. So he and his friend arrived late, and said they were late because immigrants were blocking the road. At the end the class voted in UKIP because they were so persuasive!

Made me laugh

steppemum he knows how press all your emotional buttons and that is why you feel like you do right now.

Last night DS2 (who is 13 next week) was dry heaving over the toilet, bright red, sweating and crying uncontrollably all because I wanted him to do his homework revising for his exams as we had agreed rather than play video games after 20 minutes of 'effort'.

I was told that I was causing him stress and anxiety as he would be labelled a geek a school if he didn't play with his friends online NOW!!!!!

Today he is sweetness itself. Did all his work as agreed and also played a little bit of video games as well.

Stay strong, be fair, set reasonable boundaries, do not budge on what matters and be prepared to still be labelled as the unreasonable parent from hell that no other child has to put up with in the entire universe.

The line I particularly liked was 'Your parents never did this to YOOOUUUU'

which is ironic, as they worked in middle east and I went to boarding school

I'm having my first teen sleepover tonight. Thankfully only one friend was allowed to stay. However I'm informed that it's 'weird' for them to sleep in a massive double bed together (one in a sleeping bag) and that they have to take over the sitting room

Pizza has been delivered, I've been sent to my room, and they are downstairs forgetting to be quiet

Furniture is being moved as well
They've been drinking energy drinks to keep awake, so ds is like he's on speed
I don't think this will be happening again any time soon

Good luck Dolly!

We survived!
Just need to get him to put the sitting room back together now!

This dropped off my list when i was away i couldnt find you all just popped up on active marking place and off to read to catch up

Well done Dolly

So this should really be my last post on here for another 6 years as DSS will no longer be a teenager after midnight ...
We haven't actually seen him since the night we came back from our holiday to deal with the mess his "friends" made of our home.
He disappeared back to his DM after work the next day and has made excuse after excuse not to come here, even though we didn't give him nearly as much grief as he may have deserved (not so much for the ill-advised party but for not getting the place back to normal before our return).

He told us he'd come today but when he hadn't turned up by dinner, DH texted him. He replied that he couldn't be bothered coming as he was too hungover tired.
DH and I are both really hurt that he couldn't even text to let us know and now he will wake up in an empty house on his birthday as his DM is away.
(Just hope she has a house to come back to)

So for the last time for a while: BLOODY TEENAGERS!!!

catz - I have to say reading your post I did think he may be planning a party at DMs house!

He's going to run out of places to live if he does....

Oh my good god! DD came home yesterday with a detention slip for today. A girl in her class either drew or craved a list of names into a desk. Dd got a dention, along with every girl whose name was on the desk! The girl that did it admitted to it and said it was only her that did it.
The teacher still gave everyone a 45 minute detention. Dd wasn't even sat at the table.
I wrote a letter in saying I wasnt allowing DD to stay for it. If she had anything to do with it there would be no doubt that I'd make her do it.
She (DD) 0phoned earlier on and spoke to Dh and said the teacher said if her name was on the desk she still has detention

Coco, that's ridiculous. The teacher has got that very wrong. Did she stay for the detention?

Catz, please stay and do hand holding and general chit chatting!!

I've dropped off here for a while too, been so busy and I never saw any posts so presumed it had dropped into the ether.

Teens been having dramas left, right and centre. Mainly school stuff, not coping with exam pressure, phoning me and yelling that's she's failing everything and "what's the point". I'm seeing her head of year on Tuesday to see how we can coax her through the rest of term.

She came home one day and threw an almighty strop because I'd cooked spag bol which, after loving for 15 years, she now hates and stomped upstairs screaming that she will starve. Ffs!!!

She's been working, doing school, studying and volunteering so think she's going to have to ease back somewhere.

We had dsd(11) this weekend, who is also hormonal and Moody and quite rude on occasion. Give me strength!!

Thank you
I remember the stress of exams. My DBro and I drove our parents insane. DD will no doubt be the same when her time comes. DSS didn't really care much. He's too laid back for his own good. I nagged at him through 3 years of exams and got more worked up than he ever did.
How's your DDs McJob going? Sounds like she has an awful lot going on.

DSS is here this weekend too. I know because his jacket is on the dining room floor, shoes in the living room, drinks bottle from the gym on a book case, gym stuff on dining table, label from new top on sideboard, bag from new top on kitchen worktop..... I guess turning 20 doesn't make a person any more considerate.

No she didn't do it. She gave the teacher the letter (her friends mum wrote one too) and the teacher said she understood where we were coming from but the fact that DDs name was on the desk meant it was her responsibly and she should clean it.
DD said no its not up to me to clean up someone else's mess, and again said she wasn't sitting at that table.
The teacher then started to argue and insist she was right. DD then turned and walked away. She said she would have ended up in trouble for being cheeky if she had said anymore. I'm presuming thats the subject closed.

Weird thinking from her teacher. So if I wrote Cocolepew on a wall, would the council expect you to come and do community service?? I'm glad she stood up for herself.
(And now you can have fun quoting her when she leaves a mess behind at home )