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?

Not a teen until next year but today's sulk is because her ear piercings (done this summer) have closed up. Somehow, this is my fault.

Also, I suggested that eating sweets every day on the sly was likely to result in fillings. Cue a massive sigh and eye-roll.

I'm just getting the PA silent treatment and sad-yet-stares.

I know this is just a toe in the water of the teenage hell pond. I am really dreading the teen years even more now and I've got three DCs to endure.

*sad-yet-cross stares

CheeseyToast

It depends on the school/college.

One girl called me 'stupid' this morning, mock exam in exam conditions so phones had to be switched off in their bag or on silent on my desk.

Apparently that makes me stupid - I put it on pro monitor, she flounced.

I had to have one removed the other day, she had a full on shouting argument down the phone to her boyfriend IN CLASS! Then couldn't understand why I wanted her to leave.

Only one more week at this particular place.

Because I won't write a note excusing her from homework as she doesn't have time to revise for her upcoming exams. Funny how she has the time to chat on FaceTime, Snapchat, instagram and go for coffee with her mates after school...

Dd13 is reporting me to ss as I appear to be starving her and there is never any food in the house, she wanted a snack and the only options are yoghurt, fruit, cheese, porridge pots or toast with Nutella / marmite / jam or honey. Clearly a huge case of child neglect.

STOP PRESS: DD just came in my room, hugged me and told me she loves me and asked for nothing!!!! WTAF!!!

Everyfuckingthing. I just want to scream FUUUUUUCK OFFFFFFFF!!!!!!

@Stew Had a similar conversation with my DD. Wants me to just sit and listen to her teachers at parents evening and absolutely not speak to them or ask questions because that would be just so embarrassing.

JustHope she just stood there awkward as hell whilst I talked at length with various teachers about her mock results. She was not happy in the car home. I should be ashamed for taking such an interest in my daughter's education

I've had the "Don't talk to anyone" order on the way to parents' evening too. Kind of defeats the object...

TheImpossibleGirl haha yes and because it's GCSE year, we have another mocks evening and two parents evenings to get through yet. The potential to annoy grows stronger everyday

My 15yr old DD is going with a friend to their birthday treat at Air Hop after school tomorrow and staying overnight with the family. I agreed last week that she could go to this on a school night, as long as her homework (due in the following morning) was done before she went. Roll forward to tonight. When I asked where was the homework, she went into full meltdown; screaming, crying, flinging herself about on the sofa, etc. 'You are so MEAN!!! I HATE you!! You ruin my life! I have a PLAN, Mum!!! I am going to get up early at 5.00am tomorrow and do it then; I've worked it all out! Why do you interfere in EVERYTHING I DO!!! I calmly said 'You have 2 choices. You go now, get the homework done to a good standard and show it to me, or I will be calling friend's family and cancelling tomorrow'. Cue more screaming, stomping upstairs, wailing in front of the computer for the next 15mins. At which point I said 'If you can't get your act together and conduct yourself like a reasonable human being and stop this RIDICULOUS behaviour, I will cancel anyway whether you do the homework or not'. Silence. She came down an hour later and thrust the completed homework at me with a murderous look, but she kept her mouth shut...and then flounced off to bed without saying goodnight to anyone.

Mine says her teacher "LOVES Amy....Amy can do NO wrong...even though Amy called Rachel fat and she's a bully!"

Oh yes parents evening. I was only allowed to book a meeting with the history teacher on the condition that I didn't speak to the history teacher about DS . History teacher loved DS, called him one of his stars, such a pleasure to teach, a delightful young man. DS take on the meeting? He's such a weirdo, he hates me.

DDs teachers are all freaks and weirdos apparently and when I meet them I am so surprised that they are perfectly normal and very nice. The RE teacher is just the weirdest ever according to DD ‘because she keeps going on about God and stuff’

My DD sent me a text about parent's evening "what are you going to wear mum? Can it be something like you wear to work, not your home stuff" . so tempted to turn up in trackies, crocks and socks.

At the moment I have a teenager's parents' evening every week. 2nd (of four) is this evening. At least there'll be a cake sale.

AIBU to put my 9 year old up for sale? I can't bear the thought of the teenage years reading this, she's already a stroppy madam!

Mine actually has a reason to sulk.

He has a brace. It was tightened up yesterday and it hurts.

And, he was given elastics. Well I'm blowed if I can work out where they are meant to go on. And they're really difficult to get off. I've said he should wait until the weekend when the pain of the tightened brace will have subsided, and then we'll try again with them. He is outraged and says he won't wear them at all. I asked if they were fiddly to get on and the orthodontist airily said oh no they're easy, see the hooks here.

If you do it wrong you'll pull the wrong teeth in the wrong direction. Why on earth didn't they give us a diagram. I'll send an email to them now to see if they can email one or put it in the post.

So I kind of accept his sulking and bad temper. He's generally ok actually as long as I don't nag about homework too much.

We also have parents evening tonight. As others I had the “talk” last night about not talking to the teachers in case I say something embarrassing, together with “When music teacher says something, don’t believe him. He never says anything good about anybody”

Just had a text from her reiterating last nights talk and suggested we go 10 minutes before the end as “It will be pointless just hanging around there waiting because, you know, everyone else needs to be seen. And then you will

I can’t wait to get there early and see what music teacher has to say...

Sorry posted as I was editing 🙄. “Then you will be mad at me as if it’s my fault”....

I haven't washed her favourite jodhpurs.....the ones that make her bum look smaller. ....and the hot farrier is coming today!

Nicer problems to have!

DD1 is 15, in year 11. Yesterday's dramas included:

DD2 DARING to eat the last bag of prawn cocktail crisps which meant DD1 had NOTHING to eat after dinner as she couldn't possibly have ready salted or find something else suitable to eat

Her boyfriend sending her a romantic paragraph which she later found out had been copied and pasted from the internet. She was in tears and was loudly and emotionally re-evaluating their entire year long relationship while he carried on playing on his playstation, blissfully unaware

It's also mock week this week, which is obviously all pointless, and she has apparently purposely not bothered to revise as she wants to see how well she can do without any revision, which is strange as that's exactly what she said when she took her last mocks in June and subsequently did very badly

It's 6th form open evening tonight and she's already been moaning in advance about how all the teachers are weirdos and don't know how to teach, so she doesn't see the point in going

Give me strength

When my DD is asked to tidy up her room etc, she has taken to singing any slow dirge-like song, as if she is toiling in the cotton fields.

Her older brother will say ‘She’s singing the sing of her people again’

My DS is absolutely perfect, he has always been polite, loving and well behaved. Today I am ecstatic at his achievements, not the straight A’s he got in his latest assessments or the platinum award in every area of his school conduct and learning. Far more amazing than that. Today he, without being asked, got in the shower. I have waited so long for this day. 😇