What is your teenager sulking about today?

[CheeseyToast]

Mine is appalled that there’s no avocado for breakfast. Cue eye rolling, stomping, slammed door. Anyone else?

After inspecting the fridge for cheesecake and finding it lacking , I was told that living in our house is 'like living on rations'.

Mine has ripped the handle of a very expensive new bag, tried to hide it from me then tell me it broke because he fell over. I have a very very strong suspicion he and his obnoxious 'friends' were giving it some rough treatment. I'm pissed off. Apparently I'm a bitch and he's not coming home tomorrow.

Fml.

That he has a detention for being late, despite me still being horse from telling him to get his 6”2 lump out of bed....

I bought her gloves. Gloves are sad and embarrassing apparently. I hit "OMG mu-um" when I suggested she just pop them in her pocket and no one would know unless she needed them. In Northern France. In November.

I almost miss those tumultuous teenage days. Grown up kids are nice to me these days, but don’t see them often enough now. Typical.

lilathelion I had the exact same argument last week. DD (16) complained her hands were cold (Snowdonia, November). In town, having forgotten my own, grabbed a set of two pairs from Asda. I got ‘omg mum how many times have I told you not to buy anything unless I’m with you’

On the plus side she has just willingly spent 3 evenings downstairs with us. Without asking for anything.

And has (literally, whilst I’m reading this thread) just apologised for being a stroppy mare over the last 6 weeks due to stress and other factors, said she knows we are doing our best for her.

I think the onions in the stew are still affecting my eyes.

Good one Cheesey! Yes never having anything to wear and even though they have lots of clothes, insisting on wearing the same outfit over and over and over again! Followed by a strop if favourite outfit is not clean.

I won't let her watch another episode of Outnumbered whilst she does the maths homework that she told me she'd done yesterday...

That it isn’t his birthday until May. Everyone is older than him and it isn’t fair because they can now do things he can’t. Yep, everyone except 4 of your best mates, who were all born around the same time as you Love.

That I wouldn't let him go to a football match instead of the parents evening which the college had said he should attend. It was particularly unfair because he had no idea there was a parents evening when planning (yesterday) to go to the football match, despite my constant nagging of him to return the "book a slot" sheet to the college, and my telling him (yesterday) that I had rung them & booked a slot. He eventually got his own way, showing some amazing negotiating skills, as well as a great talent for sulking. And it was fine without him, to be honest.

This thread is seriously keeping me going.
I'm a single parent of three. Middle DS is on the cusp of teenagerhood and I've got to go through this three times. By myself.

There is not enough wine in the world for this shit!

We’re having the ‘there’s nothing to eat - I’m staaaaarrrrrving’ after refusing to eat dinner whinge right now too

She’s coeliac so diet is a bit of an issue, but there’s plenty of GF snackage in the house, including plenty of GF bread to make herself some toast.

What she actually means, is that she’s eaten all the GF brownies that I made yesterday and she wants me to make her some more, and god I’m so unreasonable for refusing to start baking at 10 o clock at bloody night!

I frequently got told "we should have called you Kevin!" as a teenager. Mine are currently 3 and 5, so I've got all of this to come..

Tonight it was because there were no chips in the freezer. We had this last week as well, when there genuinely wasn’t any chips in the freezer. Tonight, there’s crinkle cut chips, thin fries, and steak cut chips. There’s also sweet potato fries. There’s also potatoes and sweet potatoes in the fridge but not, apparently, the chips she wanted.

She has yet to reveal what type of chips it is she’s after.

I'm chortling along with these.
Teenagers are just so weird, I mind last year suggesting Dd get some gloves and a scarf.
Some gloves and and a scarf, NOT becoming a cannibal and using her kills as gloves and a scarf, and then of course she bloody stole mine!

When she's having one of her days:
Me- morning Dd, want me to make you anything for breakfast?
Dd- Humph.
Me- Ok, I'll leave you to it, but there's cereal, instant porridge pots, pop tarts, breakfast bars etc.
Dd- Omg there's never anything, why are you up, leave me alone, waaaaaah.

I hide in my room until she's gone to school!

Tonight’s sulk is because I asked him to put the bin out. Apparently it’s ‘not fair’ as he’s ‘tired’. Even though he’s had an inset day and has not moved from his bedroom all day. It’s tough being 16!

The white shirts I got her for schoo have sleeves that are "too baggy"

I asked her to shut a door

I asked her to pick a pair of pants off the floor

I asked her to move so that I could open a draw

I asked her to roll her skirt down

I breathed

Drawer. Not draw

Plus I asked to borrow a hairband

Shit. Busted by DS. Stupidly left this tab open.

"Now you owe me really big time."

Yup. Guess I do.

That he can’t spend all day next Saturday/Sunday on his computer learning C++.

It’s educational he says.....

I said he’d have a point if it was Java but other than that he can get out of his bedroom and interact with society

Oh dear god , I dread the plaintive wail of the hungry teenager , punctuated by the repeated opening and slamming of cupboard doors in search of food that he can be bothered to eat . Apparently there’s nothing , nothing at all . But he still has to check each cupboard and the fridge at least three times . But there’s still no food . Apart from bagels , croissants , eggs, tinned beans or sketti , French bread , normal bread , 3 types of cheese , ham , various meats , pork pies , sausage rolls , pasta , instant couscous , an entire green grocers stall , various soups , and two different home made cakes . And some cheese straws . No food at all .

Gawd why do I have to eat fruit- I had an apple yesterday- is that not enough!!!

I spoke to his Alexa....

Sulking about the fact I’ve become friendly with his girlfriend’s mum as well as “There’s nothing in this house to eat”.

LILLYBELLS

Love the idea of teen bingo:

I could add

"how can you be so annoying?"

even though I am just standing, sitting, minding my own business and not saying a word!