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?

DD2 once came home to find her beloved purple hoodie freshly washed and hanging to dry, so unavailable for the evening. She was not best pleased.

I simply pointed her in the direction of her four or five other near identical clean, dark coloured hoodies, lumberjack shirts and sweaters, and resumed what I was doing.

I have a DD who wears her dressing gown over her uniform to breakfast. Really don't know what it is all about.

Neither DC is home yet but expected imminently - they will then have a fight over who gets to rant first about how unfair everything is.....

Bit of huffing because I wouldn't let him throw his tea away and 'just have some crisps'. I also got a 'why do you care?' Poor child, having a mother who prepares a substantial meal before his 2 hour football training so he doesn't feel hungry. Someone alert social services.

Last year, other DS didn't give me the parents evening info because he knows I'm not interested in school stuff. I was the chair of the PTA for 5 years at his primary school! Condensed hours at work so I could be here every day after school when he started year 7. Been to every parent forum, open evening, meet the teacher, parent mixers going. Yep, that's what 'not interested' looks like. I wouldn't mind but every teacher loves him, so it's not even like he was hiding a bad report.

I'm completely baffled about the point being made with the dressing gown over the uniform thing.

IHaveBrilloHair - that's hilarious in a 'I'm so glad that's not my child' way.

Got a request for a lift to Bus stop because it was raining this morning.

Bus stop is less than a five min walk 🙄.

Because I didn't wash her school cardi - despite having been asked multiple times if she had any washing. And she doesn't know what she wants for Christmas and I should JUST STOP ASKING!!!!

My favourite came a few weeks ago when I went to meet his younger sister’s friend at the train station at the same time as his train got in.

DD and I saw him crossing the bridge and said his name and waved.

He walked straight past me, utterly furious. When we got home, he was apoplectic with rage : “MUM YOU CAN’T DO THAT, EVER. THAT WAS APPALLING”.

I went into DDs room after school to say hello ask how her day was and was told ‘no offence Mum but stop asking questions, I just don’t want to talk with you about school right now’. Later at dinner I was chatting to DD2 about her day and DD1 got in a total huff because apparently I only care about DD2 and I never ask her about stuff

Because I wont let her have a new puppy and she spotted a really fit year 12 boy walking his puppy in the park. How is she supposed to go and talk to him if she hasn't got a puppy????

BTW we have two dogs - They are obviously not impressive enough....

Oh yes the Christmas thing.
How is he supposed to know what she might want? Fine, but then I don't know either so how can I buy it?
Coal, she's getting coal.

Not agreeing him to finishing school
for summer a week earlier (end of year 10) so he can go mountain biking in France with older friends who are in college. 20 year old friend is the responsible adult apparently.

Just as I thought Id finished posting about DD's whinge of the day here comes DS....

DS - MUM have you seen my rugby boots?
Me - Yes. I put them in the garage after you left them outside on Saturday
DS - Cool! Have you washed them?
Me - No
DS - What you mean? You put them in the garage still muddy??
Me - Yes. After I reminded you 6 times over the weekend that your boots need cleaning but you didn't bother
DS - But I need them for tomorrow
Me - They are in the garage. Go and clean them
DS - That's just spiteful. You could have cleaned them. I haven't got time for this!
Me - What you doing then?
DS - I'm making toast
Me - The boots will still be there when you've eaten your toast
DS - You're not going to clean them then?
Me - No. They are your boots. You clean them. I don't ask you to clean my boots
DS - You don't play rugby
Me - No
DS - That's not fair. Don't bother making me breakfast in the morning and don't speak to me ever again. Everybody's mother cleans their boots but I have to do them MYSELF...
Me - I'll stay in bed in the morning then
DS - Yeh. Stay in bed. Don't bother making sure I have breakfast before I go to college will you? And then don't start moaning if I fail my exams. Everybody knows you cant function properly if you don't have breakfast

Lie in for me tomorrow then

My kid is clearly moonlighting in all of your homes

Nothing so far today...he must be ill! oh no, I forgot, he got stroppy when asked to wear his headphones when doing his piano practice...but can't really complain too much given he was doing piano practice

An hour before “screen turn off” time he was trying to negotiate an extra 20mins and sulked when we said no.

A whole bloody hour before he had to turn it all off!

He hates us apparently. .....we can live with that. We still adore the moaning teen.

Oh I've remembered another....

son refusing to talk to me about his a level psychology papers despite being reminded by his teacher that I, his mother, happen to have been an A level psychology examiner with a BSc and an MRes in Psychology on the actual papers he was working through, oh and almost finished a PhD in psychology.... he failed and then moaned that he'd only chosen it because he knew I could help tutor him and yet when I offered......

Better than the 11 year old who is creeping around furniture with a nerf gun shooting imaginary combatants and avoiding going to bed...argh!!

I get that this is lighthearted but some of these teens sound like spoilt brats. ( waits to be flamed)

Dd1 regularly waits until 4ish on Sundays to have a massive strop about how "we haven't done ANYTHING all weekend"
"well why didn't you arrange something with your friends then dd?"
Response: "you know I don't like making plans with friends at the weekend"
"I'm not your entertainment manager dd, if you're not happy pottering around/running your siblings to their clubs then make some plans of your own!"

Fwiw I suggested cinema with friends/shopping centre/catching up with old bff who goes to a different school, at various points over the weekend but she can't be arsed to arrange anything.

DD1 has spent an hour and a half on the phone to Childline because I won't let her go to Scouts because of her appalling behaviour at school. Pretty sure social services are on their way.

We have had a holiday weekend and dd has spent 4 days in bed or lounging on the couch because she is the only person in the world ever to have had a period, and if someone has ever actually had one (in response to my comment) then they couldn’t possibly be as bad as hers. Only got up to shower and dye her hair but it was my fault that the colour wasn’t as silver as the packet.
Life is awful as ‘everyone else’ has an iPhone X, Mac book, iPad etc and she just has an iPhone 5s, iPad and laptop - ridiculous.
DS is starving, really starving and there are no snacks for him ever. He had eaten me out of house and Home over the last few years and refuses to eat veg so wants to snack after dinner.
They are both deprived, need money cannot believe that they are expected to hoover and empty the dishwasher...
oh, and someone died in a vampire series (Stephan?!!) and dd was distraught and furious that I just DO NOT care!!! Not happy when I said it was fiction as I know nothing! Aaahhhh.... miss my wee toddlers who even if they were nightmares usually went to bed around 7!!!!

DS has just come downstairs with another massive sulk because he wants to watch Peaky Blinders on Netflix but I haven't updated my debit card details (card expired and I forgot to sort it out) so the account is on hold. I offered to do it after finishing the ironing but that isn't fast enough apparently so he has asked DH to do it.

He's also got the hump because DH didn't take him for a haircut this morning before sixth form. See my earlier post, where he complained I woke him up at 8am which was way too early - but he would have needed to be up at that time for the barber's. I enquired as to why he couldn't have taken himself for a haircut as he is 17 and usually goes on his own, but apparently he couldn't be bothered to look for his bus pass so needed a lift. I give up.

Oh this has cheered me up so much.

Yesterday DS1 (12) came home with a migraine headache. I gave him some paracetamol and told hi to lie down for a bit. "But then I won't wake up to studyyyyy". Said I'll wake him in an hour.

When I wake him, I talk nicely, cajole, keep saying come on babe. "I can't wake uuuup".

Me: "why don't you go and wash your face"
Him'"no. I can't wake uuuuup"
Me:"or better yet, have a quick shower. That will refresh you."
Him:" no. Mum heeeeelp meeee. I can't wake up.

30 minutes later he has moved from the bed to the sofa. I say sod it and take a glass of wine outside.... And all hell breaks loose.

I don't care about him. He's begging me for help and I go sit outside with a glass of wine. He asked me 5 times (apparently, in the 2 minutes I was outside) to heeeeelp him.

I ask what about the half an hour before when I was trying to help him and made suggestions and so on? Oh no, he doesn't remember any of that. And it's my fault for trying to help him with his migraine headache and it's my fault he's going to fail all his exams.... sigh

30 minutes later he jumped on his bike to the shop for something and came back a completely normal child.

So today is the birthday. DH and I are lying in bed at 7:00 having pressed snooze. The front door goes. We roll over and say “was that her leaving?” Honestly wouldn’t put that sort of behaviour past her.
But no. It’s her friend arriving to open her presents with her. The ones that she’s bought her. So we her family are now all sitting downstairs wondering if we will even see her before she goes to school.
Weirdo. Weird behaviour!

Not cancelling our family holiday so she can go to a festival with her friends in the summer. The only 2 weeks dh can get. I did day she didn't have to come if she could get someone to take full parental responsibility for her. Round one to me.