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.

Have found that, since dd learned to drive she has been a lot nicer to me and DH as we threaten "no car" when she gets really shouty! We don't do that too often though as it can end up in even more dramatics...

bogey is it too early?

Can I have a,tenner please?

Although this thread is making me laugh so much it's probably a tena I need.

Does anyone else's teen end arguments like this:

Me: Your rooms a tip, clean it.
Her: I'm busy
Me: you're on Facebook, that's not being busy. Please clean your room
Her: I'll do it at the weekend
Me: No, I want it done now, you sleep all weekend. Go and do your room
Her: make me.

Me: oh ffs

Oh yes and the 'but it is tidy' as the floor is covered in clothes, plates and cups.

I am guilty of nagging them while actually cleaning their room at the same time.

These are very funny. They are making me nervous though, I'm only just getting used to toddler stubbornness. I'm not sure how I'll cope with a teenager, and had kind of buried my head in the sand about it ever happening.

I was fairly awful- lots of drinking, smoking, piercings, sex and drugs for a few years from 13. I left notes lying around with song lyrics outlining how awful my life was. I also 'moved into' a squat, but returned home for cooked meals and long leisurely baths. My mum now tells me that she got through by focussing on how bad the teens of people she knew were, and counted herself lucky that I hadn't messed up at school or been arrested.

I did direct most of it at my dad though. And I turned out alright in the end, honestly! The day I had my DD I humbly apologised for everything I'd ever put my parents through. I just hope my DD takes after DP instead, who was only interested in football until he was 16.

I have a lot of luck keeping 13 year old DD in line by threatening public displays of affection at the bus stop. DH and I catch the same train in the morning, just past the bus stop where her friends decant for school in the mornings. A morning strop can be stopped in it's tracks by a threat to snog her father in full view of the bus stop I am always prepared to carry out that particular threat and she knows it.

Great thread I actually enjoy my teens although they drive me crazy.

Got an orange one here too who is a drama queen. She is also messy, scatty, lazy and rude. But like Gibble's DD, she struggles to stay grumpy we have have a fight as we often end up laughing.

Youngest came home. Told lies (I eyerolled ) I told him he couldn't be trusted alone out of the house. Smartarse reply was "well, I won't be able to go to school then" Which has earned him my company going to and from school He haaaatesss me walking him to school...... it's a 2 minute walk.
The amount of satisfaction I am getting from annoying him is just wrong!

And who else has to hide their haul of expensive make up, toiletries, perfume, chocolates and other treats from their teens?

(and I laughed wryly at the white carpet posting - we have light coloured carpets and the orange one's bedroom carpet is ruined thanks to fake tan, make up spills and god know what else. She wants us to redecorate her room and there is NO way we will bother until she has left home).

DD wants me to take her measurements for a dress, but I'm NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH her. Could be interesting.

Its never too early Pyjama, I am currently investigating the merits of a nice breakfast wine to get me through the early trauma :o

Stronger Can totally relate to that! DD failed her Maths GCSE. Totally self inflicted, decided she was shit at maths and exams (she isnt) so didnt bother revising. Get to retakes and she is moping about saying "I bet only get a c!" and I said "Well a C is a pass, and thats all you need for your college course so dont worry too much, just do your best".......

"OMG!!!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT!!!!!! SO YOU THINK I AM THICK?! YOU THINK I AM SO STUPID THAT I WILL ONLY GET A C?! THANKS A LOT! I WONT BOTHER, AS I AM SO DUMB I CAN ONLY GET A CRAPPY C!!"

H - "Whats going on?"

She - "MUM JUST SAID THAT SHE THINKS I AM TOO STUPID TO PASS MY MATHS AND I MIGHT AS WELL NOT BOTHER"

Me - No I didnt!

She - OH SO NOW YOU ARE CALLING ME A LIAR?! WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS HAVING A GO AT ME?

Err........

Whoever quoted the "can you not" - yes!! I feel your pain.

Mine have conversations with each other which seem to comprise wholly of these assorted phrases, and nothing else

"can you not"
"I know right"
"oh my god"
"Whatever"
"I was like"
"He was like"
"She was like"
"Literally"
"Yeah"

Then they go and sit in different rooms and have this same conversation with each other, on fucking snapchat!

It's a mystery.

Dear god, what am I raising?

DD came home from school. Was almost human, actually said hello and was nice to her sister so I gave her her phone back.

She disappeared upstairs with 109483761 gallons of milk while face timing a friend. All quiet and peaceful, I'm enjoying a nice cup of tea whilst watching Flog It.

I go up to the loo and find blobs of what looks to me like bright red blood on the landing carpet, burst into the bathroom having a full on heart attack wondering what on earth had happened, to find DD standing in the bath scrubbing her leg with my Liz Earle hot cloth face wash thingy

The dumbass has only painted her entire fucking leg with bright red acrylic paint.

I thought we'd got past the stage of worrying when they go quiet.

I should add in DD's defence that she is now almost 18 and very different to the monster she was 18 months ago! She is staying at home tonight, just me and her and I am actually looking forward to it!

She failed the maths again btw.......I daresay that was my fault too!

I LOVE this thread.

It's like balm to my wounded soul knowing I am not alone

The dumbass has only painted her entire fucking leg with bright red acrylic paint.

Thats hysterical! Did she say why?!

Weeping with laughter here. song

bogey am liking the idea of breakfast wine.

Yes the conversation of right, yeah, listen, yeah, like, omg, that's insane, like, like, like, and yeah right, yeah right, for gods sake it's just banter and my particular favourite, your doing my head in mom stop it now. In reply to a polite request to lay the table.

HSSM we can massage her feet but never ever are allowed to touch the face. She wouldn't feel it anyway as her makeup cushions any blow!

Any touch of a parent on the face can seemingly cause immediate and irreversible acne.

Omg at painting her leg! Thats hysterical
Dd once drew on a twirly moustache while facetiming. In black permanent marker.

Fuck knows, I didn't ask,

There's never going to be a reasonable answer to the question "why the actual fuck have you painted your leg bright red?" is there?

I have to take off my perfectly ordinary sunglasses when approaching the school. Apparently they are hipster sunglasses ( nope, no idea). I am more big hipped than hipster and am embarrassing without my even knowing it. I reckon it's a life skill.

I've just had a week and a half of "Why can't you trust me?", only to find the reason I can't trust him is because he makes things up!
I am so gullible! I need the interrogation skills of ......someone with really good interrogation skills!

Am loving this thread.
I've got 4 DC.
DD1 was awful.
Moody, cheeky, parties involving police call outs when we stupidly left her home at 18 when we on holiday, smoking cannabis, rude...
Etc
Frequently told us we were f*king crap parents'
Everything that went wrong in her life was our fault.
Now she has decent job,married, child (whom we Frequently look after)
DS was lovely teen,no dramas, no trouble.
At university now and occasionally remembers to get in touch
Dd 2 is 16, good at school, will be seen out with me untidy room as bad as it gets.
Dd3 is a moody teen at 9.
Am expecting the worst