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?

When in the course of under a week, ds3 (aged c.15) a) did his homework without a word of nagging, b) tidied his room and c) gave me an unsolicited hug, I thought he must have some really bad news for me - he’d robbed a bank or something similar.

It turned out he was emerging from the worst of the teenage years, and I could start to enjoy having sons again.*

• • hyperbole alert - I always loved them, but during the teenage years, being their mum was sometimes very hard work indeed!

'My ds is absolutely perfect'

Well if he is. He's the only perfect person from past present of future ever to grace the planet.

My dd isnt perfect.
She's got her faults she's human.

It's my turn to sulk today. I've got a horrible cold and DS3 (13) lost his replacement* fountain pen on the first day he took it to school.

• to replace the first fountain pen he lost

Today the house is soooo cold! It really is like living in the Arctic. Funnily last night it was too hot and he couldn't breathe. That might be due to the massive hoody he is shuffling around in. My hilarious comment about the ripped jeans being good ventilation to cool him down went down like a bag of cold sick!

Awlookatmybabyspider. That was a joke, I could have said he has Aspergers and up until now refused to wash. It’s a major breakthrough.

"Funnily last night it was too hot and he couldn't breathe. That might be due to the massive hoody he is shuffling around in."

Oh God, DD2 (17) on the way to our holiday destination last July. Sat in the back of the Zafira, clad in jeans, t-shirt, lumberjack shirt AND hoodie - and complaining of being hot.

Today's gem for you all.....she's got the hump because I won't let her best friend come to a medical appointment that she has this afternoon!

Dusty and a for your little one.

I love this thread - I have found my people. My teens are grown up now and lovely so there is a massive light at the end of the teenage angst tunnel. I do remember the sulks though and one particular one where my DD shouted "When you get old, I'm putting you in a home!" before she flounced out of the room!!

What's the home like, nonfat?

DS is sulking as half his class have been off school with various illnesses today and he's not feeling too well either and why can't he stay home tomorrow?

My DC are little but this morning I asked two teenage boys if they were seriously smoking weed while walking to school. They grunted grumpily —must have been crap weed then— and put their blazers over their heads. I phoned the school

I didn't buy two convertible minis but only one - I'm dead to him...

He was such a lovely child and never ever asked for 'stuff'

Spoiler alert he's only 16 never driven and I don't believe in giving teenagers cars

Please let this horror end 😥

@nonfatnofoamlatte can I hire you to look after mine whilst I gave a quiet nervous breakdown in a conveniently dark corner?

I won't let her get her tongue pierced.
An hour before this she showed me her english essay which was about someone that inspires you. She wrote about me .
I now think she was just buttering me up.

Were teenagers not better when small children were sent out to clean chimneys?

There we go. No more central hearing, coal fires, obedient teens, who could not agree?

Possibly Coco but hopefully not. Although I’ve noticed DD uses this tactic more and more. She comes and sits voluntarily with me on the sofa and has a lovely grown up chat, pretends she is interested in my day, tells me something positive about school and then BANG its ‘can I go to a party’ or ‘can I get a second piercing’ 🙄

"My DC are little"

I've had teenagers (DDs 1and 2) and a little one (DD3) at the same time. Try having a 14, 13 and 4 year old all at once.

My eldest(17) was actually sweetness and light this morning which was slightly disconcerting. Yesterday morning though, she was sulking because we had the audacity to ask her to come on holiday with us next year, possibly the last family holiday before she goes off to uni.

DS (13) had a mini sulk because I wouldn't let him have a mint aero for breakfast.

My son does that too, interested and polite then BAM asking for something. It's all so immediate as well. Not, say, a week of good behaviour but an hour or so. So dispiriting.

hamwich this is priceless!!!

Mine is having a massive paddy because apparently it's my fault it's raining so he can't go to the skate park

Dustymaiden, we are having the same battle with ds1. So relieved it's not just my one. He's Aspergers too.

thank god its not just me ... last week i got in trouble for not taking a photo of DD receiving a prize on stage ... every other year when she is on stage I am not allowed to look at her (im allowed to look at everyone else's children as long as not one of her friends).. but this year I was meant to be long island medium and know she wanted a photo took ... apparantly im not proud of her achievements !