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What is your teenager sulking about today?

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CheeseyToast · 20/11/2017 08:27

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

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BigSandyBalls2015 · 20/11/2017 12:53

Oh and I wore too many layers to watch her football match yesterday! Other parents don't look like me apparently although to my eye we all looked very similar trying not to freeze our arses off.

BearSoFair · 20/11/2017 13:13

Not a teenager but 10yo DD has been in a huff since Saturday because I won't let her dye her hair pink...dreading the teenage sulks in a few years!

angelnix · 20/11/2017 13:19

Her maths teacher told her off for playing with her hair. I asked if she was playing with her hair, she was pushing it back from her face into a ponytail, so I told her the teacher was right to tell her off, she goes to school to learn not mess about with her hair. Apparently I am totally unreasonable and the haircut that has been booked for weeks is now "far too coincidental" and she "may aswell just shave it all off" Grin

CoedynSbageti · 20/11/2017 13:26

Her brother brought her charger downstairs for her as she requested (he wasn't actually coming downstairs but did as a favour) but put it down in a place that she then had to stretch to reach. I obviously don't punish him enough over his bullying behaviour apparently!

Now she's going to find my new username Wink

WhatHaveIFound · 20/11/2017 13:29

Nothing this morning but she moan when I asked her to take her nail polish off before her sixth form taster day later this week.

Arseface · 20/11/2017 13:30

That he has spent the £60 I put into his account and that accusing me of not putting it in didn't work because I did it via internet banking so proved it to him!

He's now enraged that I won't take time off to go to the bank for him to find out what he spent it on.

Bless.

Hotheadwheresthecoldbath · 20/11/2017 13:34

Strops over the weekend as dd finds that I was right that a three week project cannot be managed over a weekend.Will have strops and tears tonight too as the work is due in tomorrow.

WhatAPigsEar · 20/11/2017 13:36

That he ‘didn’t have any clean school trousers’. He eventually found them in a drawer instead of the wardrobe. This meant they were ‘actually dirty’ as he also puts dirty washing in said drawer Hmm He had been tasked with putting his washing away BTW.

AlexanderHamilton · 20/11/2017 13:39

Mine has reverted back from being too cool to be around mum to coming for a snuggle on the sofa (he's not feeling well & has the day off school)

It won't last.

sparkler10 · 20/11/2017 13:41

Because I suggested he might want to wear a coat or a jumper over his short sleeved t-shirt, as it’s cold and raining here. I’m so unreasonable.

starfleet · 20/11/2017 13:51

Because I wouldn't bid on an old camera on eBay......"it's on £17.99 with 41 seconds to go" and also because I said I was going to ring school to speak to one of the sports teachers about football.

Misswig · 20/11/2017 13:52

My DS(13) had a strop last week as I made him wear his new school trousers that made his 'calfs look too baggy'😂😂 Apparently i was the one being ridiculous!! 😂😂

angieloumc · 20/11/2017 13:54

My DD had to roll her school skirt back down, it was rolled up 3 times and couldn't see it under her school coat so she looks ridiculous. Was informed it was only rolled '2 and a half times' and now she's late for the school bus and might have to walk ten miles. She didn't miss it and it's only 3 miles anyway 😂

gettingbacktoresearch · 20/11/2017 13:54

mine is because we wouldn't let him keep the 7-month-old puppy he brought home at 11:30 last night - made him take it back straight away to his friend (both are 18!)

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 20/11/2017 13:57

Because I️ said his handwriting could be neater. It’s true.

Justgivemesomepeace · 20/11/2017 14:01

It was too cold to get up this morning. My fault because I won't have the heating on at night.

ElasticatedJeans · 20/11/2017 14:01

And last week I put him in a position where he was going to be bullied because I sent him to school with bottled water that was not Evian. Apparently I’m consigning him to never having any friends.

bonbonours · 20/11/2017 14:02

The fact that I found her blazer and school shoes which she insisted she had left on her bedroom floor (because that's where they LIVE , obvs) in a completely different room where she had in fact dumped them the previous night.

Oh and the fact it's raining. Also my fault of course.

bonbonours · 20/11/2017 14:03

Oh she's only 11. So looking forward to teenage...

Topseyt · 20/11/2017 14:07

Oh Spurtions, I had almost the same situation in the summer with DD3, who is also 15. I had spent all day both working and ferrying her about as the free taxi service, then refused to take her to her friend's house at 8pm (also to pick her up at 11, coincidentally).

I was knackered from it all and point blank refused. Cue one absolutely legendary and very loud teenage strop which had to be seen to be believed. I was the most unreasonable parent ever, apparently. So glad to read that I am not alone. She didn't go. She flounced her room.

theEagleIsLost · 20/11/2017 14:09

I starting to dread teen years - 6 months off.

DD1 spent from Thursday night to Saturday morning sulking, banging and not talking to us and picking fights with her siblings Hmm.

I think what set her off was being told for the second time in less than 10 minutes she couldn't use the main table for her project work as it I was literally putting dinner on table and we were eating and could have table it afterwards or use another table in another room.

I suspect it was the long term project itself - but she wouldnb't admit that. She started to come out her funk Saturday moring when I suggest a way she didn't need school equipment, which no-one in school would tell her if she could have, but some we already had and could take in for project.

I'm worried if I hadn't had brian wave we'd still have sulky child.

W0rriedMum · 20/11/2017 14:10

This thread is priceless and has cheered me up no end.

IHaveBrilloHair · 20/11/2017 14:11

The other week I asked Dd to cut off a piece of Swiss roll instead of taking the entire thing to her room where the cats will get it and spread it/puke it all over the house.
That was apparently calling her fatConfused

Ellybellyboo · 20/11/2017 14:11

Because she couldn’t find her school uniform this morning - we’d been decorating her room this weekend and I’d hung everything up in her wardrobe rather than leaving it draped all over various items of furniture/the floor

knittingwithnettles · 20/11/2017 14:14

I took the car to be washed yesterday and didn't ask her which was unforgiveable. She has apparently been waiting all year to go through the automatic car wash.

And I suggested a prom dress didn't have to come from a "Prom Shop" but from a shop like Monsoon or Debenhams, or shock horror she could make it herself as she had said she wanted to be a textile designer and wants to do Textiles a A level. Apparently I know nothing about proms and the sort of dress which is demanded on these occasions.

However, this morning I drove her to school and she was very friendly and said Love you Mum when I dropped her off...

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