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AIBU?

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AIBU to rehome my teenagers?

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lalalalyra · 29/02/2016 21:02

Twin girls. 13 year old. Going free to any good home.

They have fallen out. Over a pen. A fucking pen. Apparently it was a good pen and very different to the 5,000,000 other pens in the house.

So we now have a curtain stapled to the ceiling to split their bedroom, constant eye rolling and dramatics and tears at the dinner table because one wanted something, but couldn't speak to her to ask for it.

Anyone want them? If it sweetens the deal I'll throw in a 16-year-old boy who is enjoying the fallout so much that every now and again he makes and oh-so-innocent comment that accidentally sparks it all off again... (to be fair they have occasionally ganged up on him - when they are friends it can be creepy as they have a weird, silent communication thing going on).

Please tell me it gets better soon? DS was a walk in the park compared to this.

OP posts:

WeveGotAHomelessLove · 29/02/2016 21:51

We have 15Yo twin girls anf believe me it dosent get any better, wait untill they both fancy the same boy or one gets more attention than the other.

I sometimes wish we'd kept the receipt

Dontlaugh · 29/02/2016 21:52

There was a receipt??
Waaaaah

coffeeisnectar · 29/02/2016 21:53

My 17 year old is lovely to everyone. Except us. Especially her 10 year old sister. Teen is going to a uni for an interview next month and no doubt I'll have the 10 year old banging on about how much she misses her when she's not here but at the moment it's like WW 3 most days.

I can't wait til they have their own kids

MissMarpleCat · 29/02/2016 21:58

Omg, this is a terrifying glimpse into my future, dtds 8 😫

MrsRedFly · 29/02/2016 22:00

Mine haven't even reached the teenager years yet - preteen already hard enough!

And there's 3 girls including twins too - my DH might have to live in the shed!

Owllady · 29/02/2016 22:01

He's doing maths (and further maths possibly)
English lit
English language
Triple science (biology, chemistry and physics)
History
Spanish
French

Oh and product design

Yours?:o

My mom said my God!

MissMarpleCat · 29/02/2016 22:03

MrsRed I might leave DH in the house with dc's and move into the shed myself

Sparklingbrook · 29/02/2016 22:07

Well he's doing all the stuff he has to Owl (including RE) plus Engineering, Computing and Triple Science. He had to have Triple science as an option.

Languages, History and Geography have been abandoned.

He seems very happy with it all. Could be interesting.

Owllady · 29/02/2016 22:13

Does he want to be an engineer? You can pm if you like, I'm not a weirdo honestly!
My battery is about to run out though (on my tablet, not my body)

Icequeen01 · 29/02/2016 22:15

Ive got a 16 year old DS soon to do his GCSE's. It's like walking on egg shells. Everything is pre-fixed with 'Oh for God's sake!' Followed by the longest eye roll imaginable. We are not allowed to mention revision as 'that's all they ever talk about at school'. He's comfort eating us out of house and home and apparently is soooo tired he needs to lay in until midday at weekends. He's actually a good kid but the change in him is so noticeable.

Still his behaviour is NOTHING compared to mine and my sister's years ago when she was 16 and I was 18 and she stole my boyfriend of a year! We had to go away with my parents on a holiday abroad. OMG I honestly think if my parents had left us alone for more than 15 minutes we would have torn each other limb from limb!

Sparklingbrook · 29/02/2016 22:19

Oh yes Ice we had that last year. Interspersed with prom suit angst. No mentioning the revision or you get the look.

Owl not exactly sure except he wants to 'design stuff'.

kennyp · 29/02/2016 22:24

this is so irrelevant but panko is japanese for breadcrumb. so when you see panko breacrumbs the literal translation is breadcrumb breadcrumb. and i;m out

kelper · 29/02/2016 22:26

I have a lovely 16 YO foster son, but an absolute toad of a 7 YO DS, who could start an argument by himself in a darkened room (But not too dark as he'd be frightened) I'll swop the 7 YO for a Siamese cat if anyone fancies that?

ghostyslovesheep · 29/02/2016 22:29

my eldest are 11 and 13 but a year apart in school - lordy the drama - if one even looks at the other when with their friends all hell breaks out ...but ONLY when they get home

add to the mix a very fucking mardy 7 year old - who fights with everyone ...

we are an all female household - such fun!

mrshudson221b · 29/02/2016 22:31

I have a 14 year old male backchatter if anyone's interested. Answer for everything.

Are you me sparklingbrook - I have one of those 14 year olds too .

mrshudson221b · 29/02/2016 22:32

(And he called me Miss Trunchbull today ).

Sparklingbrook · 29/02/2016 22:32

Oh god it's exhausting isn't it mrshudson, and he has a brilliant memory for stuff too, which he saves to get one over on me.

MrsRedFly · 29/02/2016 22:35

I see a future of sheds being converted into hideaways!

Just hope the DC don't discover it!!

voluptuagoodshag · 29/02/2016 22:36

Thank heavens for this thread. I am not alone in this hellish universe. My 12 year old gives me such verbal it's like standing in a wind tunnel of onslaught. She barely draws breath. It's exhausting, even just ignoring it is exhausting. But all the time she's mouthy she's staying so close to me so when we walk along the street she's almost stuck to me, I can't even get some personal space. Perfectly pleasant and lovely to everyone else though. Wine, wine wine

Hamishandthefoxes · 29/02/2016 22:37

I'm happy to swap for a drama llama 8 yo who is the saddest girl in the world ever because 'nobody understands how she suffers.'

She actually said that and did a dramatic flounce when I laughed...

hellsbells99 · 29/02/2016 22:40

I will have them Op!
I remember feeling like you when mine were similar ages. DD1 (18) is now away at university and DD2 (17) is out socialising/partying all the time ....so now I am suddenly missing them!

ReadyPlayerOne · 29/02/2016 22:42

I have a six year old going on sixteen at the moment, so this is a worrying glimpse into the future. Mind you as she is six she does still behave very well, it's just her current attitude that makes me cross.

I must admit I chortled at your DSs antics OP

MissMoo22 · 29/02/2016 22:47

Oh a lovely swap thread! Do we have to take something in return or can we just do a drop off?

I've got a 14 year old boy who seems to thrive on driving me insane and 'whatever' being his word of the day, says it to me in response to everything. Also have a 9 year old boy who strops about worse than a teenage girl.

I'll swap them for a newborn. But only from 10am to 10pm.

Oh and in case you needed anything else to sway you, 14 year old tried to flush 9 year old's head down the loo tonight. 9 year old now thinks he has Ebola as 14 year old started singing 'E-bowl-ahhh' and telling him thats how you get Ebola.

BlackeyedSusan · 29/02/2016 22:47

my seven year old is getting me in practise for the teenage years. oh yes. he has been channelling the teenage attitude for years. don't you just love autism.

PiggyPlumPie · 29/02/2016 22:48

My 11 year old was having a tantrum in her room over nothing last week. I sat outside her room listening. "Nobody loves me" she wailed, "Except for some people!"

Not sure how she didn't hear me laughing!

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