What is your teenager sulking about today?

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

Yes, wheresmyphone
I get, "Why are you doing that?"
Um, what, I'm sitting watching TV.
It's the waaaay you are sitting, and do you have to watch that?

FFS, yes, I do need to wear my comfy pj's and lie on the couch watching River Monsters on Netflix.
The way she goes on you'd think I was snorting coke off her forehead.

I bought chocolate advent calendars from Poundland.

Hahaha @IHaveBrilloHair maybe you should. And can we join you?

I wasn't going to wine tonight but it was either that or run away!!!!

Ds2 forgot his key. He knew I was taking ds1 to an appointment at the end of school and wouldn’t be in.
Got home to find ds2 in the porch moaning that he’d been stood there for 15 minutes!
He was lucky it was bloody longer!
He then stropped around because I wasn’t in

Oh god the fucking cupboard snaffling.

I haven't been able to continue with any of my college assignments (which were due in yesterday) because we have had to deconstruct our argument about the wrecked bag.
I love them all to bits but ffs when do I get to do my shit?????

I think I'd rather abort come off his forehead @IHaveBrilloHair !

This has been brilliant insomnia entertainment!

Dd is 15 and does the dressing gown over uniform “because you guys won’t admit the heating is broken” - thermostat says 22.5 degrees and it comes on at 5.30am!

Also get the “eyebrows are wonky” when they are not

She hates any questions and when I have to ask something I get what I call her ‘death stare’ which is a look so full of hostile intensity that I wonder if there’s a serial killer lurking inside her.

And finally the classic “Muuuum! Can I have something to eat?” “Sure, what do you fancy?” “What is there?” “Usual stuff (reel off a list).” “Nah, it’s okay, I’m not hungry actually.” Happens over and over. It’s dh’s personal favourite!

For all of you - Kevin and Perry talking to each other's parents

Can I join in? I don't have my own teen but I do supply.

I am currently very unreasonable because with one group I

a) won't let them answer important calls in class (the teenage mum I allow to go out to answer calls because her dd has just come out of hospital)

b) Ask them to look at the board when I'm trying to show them something

But one student had a strop because she 'doesn't need maths' because she is learning to do nails and will have her own business. I asked her about paying tax and she sneered at me that of cause she won't pay tax because she will be running the business and sulked for the rest of the lesson.

Having to go to school!

Mine sighed and eye rolled because his brother's breakfast was different to his. The incredible sulk is now holed up in his lair.

Mine stropped this morning because I text him asking if he was up at 6.45. He stomped down the stairs and said of course I'm up why wouldn't I be, why would you text me that, it's stupid. Tomorrow I won't bother and if he sleeps in and misses the bus its his look out.

saash I know I’m naive but are students really that rude? 😮

My dd’s teachers give detentions for asking questions at the wrong time.

asked DS to put the recycling out last night and he found two empty beer bottles.
Him: 'Who drank these?
me: Me
Him: oh so now you're drinking!
Me: calm down it's two bottles of beer not a crack pipe
Him: can't believe you're Joking about this. Addiction is an illness
Me: I'm over 18 having a beer in my own house
Him: just wow.

Isn't this conversation supposed to go the other way round?

(Although, stealth boast, he did put the recycling out without any complaints)

So funny. My daughter is very puritanical about alcohol as well.

This morning she asked me if I had tampered with the bathroom clock as she was running late and couldn’t believe it. How does that work?

My DD (15) stropped yesterday because DH and I are going to a "mock exam results" evening tonight and we want to speak to more than one teacher.

DD asked specifically if we could just speak to her English teacher (her best subject). Our reply was "not a chance" because it's a 30 minute drive along very winding roads and a ferry trip, plus I'm keen to see how she's done in her maths as I pay for a tutor I like getting my money's worth.

This was met with utter disdain. I mean, how dare we leave work early to be at the event on time, arrange for DM to have DS so we can fully concentrate on DDs education, drive down notoriously dodgy roads, get on a ferry, which costs £9 return, and drive back again and not get home for dinner until at least 8pm and want to speak to more than one teacher?? The absolute audacity of the pair of us!

It's like DD thinks we've got more front than Southend. I will now purposefully make it my mission to speak to EVERY teacher and make sure I ask questions requiring complex answers whilst DD has to stand patiently beside me

I said 'goodbye, have a good day' too loudly this morning as they got out the car. Bloody walk tom then!

It's my fault DD is tired today apparently (nothing to do with staying up to watch I'm a Celeb, oh no!).

I also had the audacity to ask DD2 what time she was going out tonight and who with, completely unreasonable I know.

Why do you always ask me these questions
Err because you're only 16, you're not an adult yet
Ohhhh funny how I'm an adult when you want me to help out round the house

Ds14. I got up with him at 6.15 to help him with his paper round. At 7.55 his music was too loud for him to hear me calling him so I chucked a piece of Tupperware up at his window from the kitchen to tell him we needed to leave. Cue huge strop as I had scared him and I’m being weird annoying and patronising lately. I suggested the way to avoid this is for me to get an extra hour in bed and he can do his own sodding paper round.

DD has on the whole been a great teen (no drinking/smoking/up to no good type stuff) but I'm just dreading DS at the same age. He's already huge (just 4, yet wears 5-6 clothes that he will soon grow out of) how am I going to feed him when he's some 16yo 6"5 giant person?? DD eats like a hamster but loves her crap food diet of mainly pasta and Pringles but DS eats anything and everything now, what's he going to be like in another decade

DS is 13. He uses a netbook in class as his handwriting is illegible (and, due to coordination issues, sensory issues and poor muscle tone, is unlikely to get legible anytime soon). In Y7 school were responsible for printing his work but it seemed to go missing a lot so we took over printing. Every evening he sulks about printing it off and if I dare ask if he has stuck his work into his books you would think I was the worst mother in the world.
So far that's the worst we've had but he has an ASC and is emotionally still about 6 so I guess we have it all to come in the future.
DD is 10 but has been a teenager since she was about 2.......

Oh god these are excellent and have cheer d me up no end! Mine are still very young I’m a few years off teenagers but by god I’m dreading it.

Interesting fact - Harry Enfield was Lily Allen’s stepdad and Kevin and Perry are based on her and her brother as teenagers

And to add to that interesting fact - Kathy Burke and Perry Fenwick (Billy Mitchell in Eastenders) were best friends growing up, and she based her characterization on him

This is a brilliant thread by the way!