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AIBU?

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teen fucking dramas!!

829 replies

Mintyy · 25/03/2015 20:41

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.

OP posts:
Pyjamasandwine · 27/03/2015 10:19

stronger love your dd growling at you. Hilarious.

LucilleBluth · 27/03/2015 10:21

My DS is 13, nearly 14..... He's formed a band with some friends. I am apparently not allowed to say the band name because I say it in a sarcastic way Confused

He's a full on pain in the arse.

Songofsixpence · 27/03/2015 10:28

Looking through dds school bag to find my hairspray and it has in it perfume, deoderent, body spray, Hollister room spray huge makeup bag, mirror, tweezers and eye lash curler. Absolutely no books!

That made me LOL. DD's is pretty much the same

Hair spray
Hair brush
Make up
Mirror
More body sprays than the local Boots
And one solitary chewed up Biro and a pencil

Pyjamasandwine · 27/03/2015 10:37

song where the fuck are the books then? Grin I daren't ask.

Songofsixpence · 27/03/2015 10:45

When I asked I was told "god, you're so sad, it's all on my cloud"

I was gutted not to get the Tricolore to cover in wallpaper Grin

It was parents' evening this week and she's doing well, so she must be doing something

CrispyFern · 27/03/2015 10:45

I don't know how I'll parent normal teens (if mine are normal I suppose), I was talking to some mums the other day about being a teenager and they were reminiscing about drinking alcohopops (didn't do it), short short school skirts (didn't wear them), arguing with parents (not really), no coats (I always wore a coat), learning about make up (nope), buying cigarettes (no), lying to parents about where they were going out (no), kissing at discos and boyfriend issues at 13/14 (er, maybe because of all the rest I didn't have any boyfriend issues until I was much older).

butterfly2015 · 27/03/2015 10:49

I got a call from teens school yesterday to say she'd vomited down the stairs and to come and get her. Last night was parents evening, she spent the whole afternoon telling me I didn't need to go, in between bouts of throwing up.

I went. She's doing a levels. Two subjects. She's hitting distinction level in one but her attitude is dreadful and she's extremely cheeky. In the other she's got the potential to be getting a B but sits in class wearing headphones and listening to music, answering back, has walked out of lessons and is just being a major pita.

Would I bu to just confiscate the headphones? As it is she's being put on report for the rest of term at my request to see if it helps improve her attitude.

She can be so lovely and helpful but it's almost like a jekyl and hyde thing going on with her.

She's at home today, her school breaks up today anyway and she's being luffly.

TheWordFactory · 27/03/2015 10:53

I have twin teens.

TBH they're not bad at all. Compared to my friends, they're angelic and yet they're still so daft.

DS is sporting all sorts of football injuries; both big toe nails are coming off and his thigh is black and blue and green and purple from falling on the goal post (how?).

I suggested, I felt not unreasonably, that he take a pain killer. I was greeted with so much rolling of eyes and sighing. Apparently, he had already tried that and It Didn't Work. It must be a special kind of pain, obviously. Didn't I know anything?

So I suggested two pain killers.

'Oh,' he says. 'I didn't realise you could do that.'

Cocolepew · 27/03/2015 11:00

I actually lol'ed at the Egyptian beach tan Grin.
DD2, aka The Delinquent, was in tears yesterday. Her entire class was "slabbering at" her. All over a fall out with her 2 friends. Tears didn't last long and the suggestion that she ignore them was met with an incredulous look.
Apparently if you don't "slabber back they will walk all over you. "

I think her report is out today. Should be fun.

Cocolepew · 27/03/2015 11:01

Btw butterfly I would take the headphones.
DD is without a phone or ipod at the moment and Im in no hurry to give them back.

Songofsixpence · 27/03/2015 11:18

Butterfly I'd confiscate the headphones too.

I've confiscated DD's mobile phone after I saw she'd posted a bloody selfie on FB while in class.

Constant refrains of 'Everyone does it, god you're so tight' isn't going to win it back any time soon

Lemonylemon · 27/03/2015 11:21

"I wonder if there is a higher ratio of functioning alcholics amongst parents of teens..."

With everything they put us through, it wouldn't surprise me at all Grin

Lemonylemon · 27/03/2015 11:24

Actually, I liken it to being in a bad relationship - only one you can't get out of!

Pyjamasandwine · 27/03/2015 11:29

coco seriously shes orange. Grin

song I am beyond stupid as I thought a cloud was well a cloud. Confused

CadieAgain · 27/03/2015 11:40

Mine has also been tangoed for the holidays and has her Groucho Marx HD eyebrows drawn on all ready to go to the cinema (INSET day)

Sometimes I catch her staring at her palm for a few seconds before she realises she has put her phone in a pocket.

She would like a cream coloured carpet for her bedroom as it will be easier to find her clothes on it. Ha ha ha ha - no.

Cocolepew · 27/03/2015 11:45

I can well believe it pyjamas Grin. DD wouldn't let me order her school photo because her face was bright orange with white ears and neck. At least it spurred her into wearing pale make up Grin.

She also has great eyebrows, but decided it would be a good idea to shave them into a different shape Hmm. Shes been warned to grow them back and to leave them alone.

SomewhereIBelong · 27/03/2015 11:58

oh poooooooooooooo... stand up row and it is only day 1 of the Easter holiday (inset day here)

Apparently I nag.... she apparently knows what she has to do - 3 lots of homework, + 3 x science sats papers, + art prep since they are going to start GCSE art stuff in the summer term, + finish G4 piano theory, + do 4 x grade 4 piano theory mock tests over the 2 weeks, + get her piano scales up to full speed for G5 practical.

she is also going to a concert with her friend and her mum - that will apparently mean 2 days of being unable to do any you know actual work

So today when she could be getting stuff done she will be mostly sitting on her butt doing nothing.

So........ I have agreed not to nag this week (until next Friday - so she can show me she will get half of all the work done without interference) , I expect next week will be a flurry of activity -

after all, she will be well rested.... Angry

SomewhereIBelong · 27/03/2015 11:59

oh, and I will have no nerves or fingernails left...

YesIDidMeanToBeSoRudeActually · 27/03/2015 12:03

i don't drink, I'm fucked aren't I Smile

With all their hair tossing and sulking and oh my god stop will you, they do drive me up the wall, but to be honest I actually prefer it to the toddler stage. I feel like a marginally better parent (so just a bad parent rather than a crap parent!).

My parents were, looking back, excellent parents of teenagers that I didn't appreciate at the time but I try to copy now. I was off my face from about the age of 14 to 17, different boyfriend each week and then rolled home at 17 after six weeks with one (older) guy announcing we were engaged and I was moving in with him Shock. Luckily my parents didn't bat an eyelash to my face - funnily enough we are still together over 20 years later Grin but the thought of my 17 year old doing that makes me wince!

Cocolepew · 27/03/2015 12:04

I don't think I drink enough..

HearTheThunderRoar · 27/03/2015 12:13

Oh gawd, I had a massive saga about dinner last night with DD (15). I texted her if she want a quiche or pie from a bakery, I got replied "neither". So I buy one of each. Come home, offer her a whole range of various left overs, she then eventually decides she wants the quiche but can't decide what side to have with it. Tossing and turning between pasta and salad, she then decides the pasta with chicken but not the left over roast chicken but the canned bloody chicken. Ended up in tears. Gah!

In her defence, she has seriously bad cough and is on antibiotics, cough syrup and an inhaler but still going school.

grannytomine · 27/03/2015 12:18

This has made me laugh. It is funny how touchy they get and yet they can be casual about other staff. I remember being very pregnant with a 10 lb baby, looked like a ship in full sail. Taking son, almost 16, to drop him off at school for a trip, think it was skiing. Anyway I stopped just round the corner, he picked his stuff up and I gave him a hug and said goodbye. He asked why I wasn't coming round to the coach. I said I thought he might be embarrassed. No he replied, their mums are all too old to get pregnant, they don't believe you are. So you can't even win when you try to be sensitive.

Hold on, it doesn't last forever and one day you wake up and they are human again.

Mrsjayy · 27/03/2015 12:20

I had a white carpet as a teenager (I know I know) I dropped a pot of corn silk face powder on it then tried to clean it with make up remover cream I figured if it took it off my face then....I ended up putting a beanbag over it mum said why have you put it there I huffed cos it's comfy Grin it was wedged between my bed and side table she found out in a nan second

Mrsjayy · 27/03/2015 12:21

Nano*

grannytomine · 27/03/2015 12:22

Sometimes I catch her staring at her palm for a few seconds before she realises she has put her phone in a pocket.

I can picture that so clearly and yet I don't know your daughter.

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