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?

We told him to revise for a maths exam, we won't allow him on his phone and he had to get up 10 minutes early this morning as I am going to London

Another holiday one,
DD> where are we going this year?
Me: I’m not sure yet
DD> well I’m sooooo not going long haul, we’ve done that for like two years and it’s like sooooo tiring
Me> no probs just Europe this year
DD> why do we even go on holiday, it’s pointless, I’m not even bothered if we don’t have one
Me> so me and dad can have some time to relax and have family time
DD> I knew you’d say something lame like that, I’ll come if there is wifi
Me> you don’t have to come you can stay with Grandma if it bothers you that much
DD> god I swear you hate me your like having two holidays already this year without me and now you don’t even want me to come!!!!
(DH and I are going to Florence for 3 days and I’m having a girly Hen)

I give up......

Helped daughter 17 to tidy her bedroom aka The Pit. She lives in the pit like it is her very own bedsit. She comes into kitchen occasionally to forage for food before retreating to pit. We tidied the pit together attempting some mother and daughter banter. She got bored. Went to Saturday job. I have no idea of course how tiring it is "standing up all day and smiling to people in their fifties with blonde highlights and orange faces." While she was out continued to tidy the pit which involved removing about 20 pairs of shoes from her cupboard and sweeping mud a way. She does not believe in wiping feet or taking her shoes off in house . Daughter came in and started moaning that shoes were not replaced in same order. Literally the sky was falling down. Drank wine and watched strictly.

Fluffydogs
I love how long haul is effort. Sitting watching movies so you can go somewhere fabulous. We are so mean.

Good news everyone.

They do in the end rejoin our species. Even the pink model though i’ve only brought up the blue.

The most maddening thing of all is when they robbsalt in the wound by being nice as pie to everyone else especially family. They know that you cannot criticise them for that.

Of course we were all perfect, weren’t we?

I remember being a right cow as a teen. But then we were being dragged to stately homes when I wanted to sit home and play music...

I’ll have a teenager in a couple of months, but I’m not too worried. I’ve been making him promise for the last year or so that he won’t be a moody, lazy, horrible teenager. So I’m sure I’ll get to avoid all these issues and he’ll be the perfect teen

There is hope. DD has turned from a stroppy, entitled teenager to an amenable adult five years at university sharing flats taught her so much that wasn't part of the course!!

DD1 (12) this morning.

Yesterday, after I dropped her at the bus stop I saw her try to dash across the road while looking at her phone. I sensibly pointed out how dangerous it was. Cue massive strop with lots of 🙄. She had to hurry or she'd have missed the bus and needed to know if her friend was at the stop obviously.

So I uttered those immortal words "well if you get run over and killed don't come crying to me" 😆which resulted in yet more 🙄🙄

The other week I was really mean because I wouldn't jump in the car and drive for 20 minutes to her school to take her watch to her because she forgot to put it on. Luckily that was strop via text so I could ignore it.

This morning I was called an ‘idiot’ because I CLEARLY don’t understand the importance of having a pair of cycling shorts to wear under dd1’s School skirt and wouldn’t stop what I was doing (getting ready for work) to go and look for some (because asking her six times last night if she had everything ready for the morning hadn’t been doing enough to make sure she had everything ready for the morning)
I agreed that I am an idiot. To believe her when she said she had everything ready last night and to tolerate being spoken to that way by an 11 year old.

Now the cat's sulking.

We bought the wrong type of treats and I wouldn't let him sit on my laptop keyboard - somehow he manages to turn the screen upside down and disconnect touchpad just by using his arse.

Never mind DP has gone over to France to buy lots of 🍷

I won't let him have the day off school because he had trapped wind in the night

My American friend, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, is at fault for the election of Donald Trump. It's all her fault - everything from racism to Putin to the soon-to-happen nuclear war.

If she hadn't been so stupid as to live in the UK, she could have voted for Hillary.

As we all know, there was only one vote in it.

My friend is also personally responsible for the American voting system.

After this tirade, my friend said "Look, do you want a lift or not?"

"YES, OBVIOUSLY!!!!"

Do you think our mums discussed our teenage strops with their friends and had a good laugh at us all?

RaspberryRuffless that will definitely work, I am kicking myself for not thinking of it.

Well I had a lovely morning.

I didn't engage, neither did he, it all went swimmingly.

This may possibly be the way forward.

Well for mornings at least.

Massive strop this morning because I’d moved her homework and she couldn’t find it

She had left it in the middle of the living room floor last night and I’d, quite reasonably I feel, picked it up and put it on top of her bag

Honestly

Number 2 had a strop because she smashed her phone screen last night (because it’s not in one of the 286146013000 phone cases I’ve bought her) and I haven’t got time to take it to be fixed today

Teen DS is sulking because I bought him some new deodorant. “Are you saying I smell??”

Pointed out I happened to notice he’d run out. He’s now in a strop because I was snooping in his room

Because we think the school poisoned him again (gluten free) (totally reasonable to sulk) and that he didn’t get to finish his daily challenges on grand theft auto (Xbox) before having to go to his father for two days.

He was sulking this morning that I made him get up!!

OH god these are funny!
My fault because his maths teacher is annoying .....tbh maths teachers shouty messages to me are annoying
His little brother was born
Why don’t I pick through the shite on his floor and know what to wash 😂😂😂😂

That’s I won’t let him cycle to school without wearing his helmet

I offered to buy him a new pair of trainers for Christmas. Apparently 'shoes aren't a proper Christmas present'...!

Is it mostly teenage girls who are the sulkers?
Two teenage boys in our house - sulking doesn't happen as sulkers were taken the mickey out of from a young age. There's no point in sulking if everyone finds it amusing.

This morning:
DS 5 mins before we’re due to leave - DS couldn’t find one of his schoolbooks. I dared to suggest his teacher may have it ‘nooo, we had a sub, I’ve lost it, etc’. This evening I asked him if he found it. Guess what - the teacher had it of course!!
HOw many times have I asked him to pack his bag the night before, he’s in year 9 so maybe he’ll grasp it before he leaves education?

DS phoned me from school today to ask a favour, from the school office. He was SO charming and polite, I want to employ the 3 teachers who were there to live in my house so he is like that 24/7.

Oh yes, and apparently we don’t have any food even though I spent £60 in the supermarket on Friday and did a top up on Sun (bread etc). What DS really means is we’ve run out of chocolate!!!!