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?

To the poster who said some of these teens sound like spoilt brats. Brats maybe, but spoiled would be them getting the second avocado, the days off school, the family holiday cancelled. I quite admire teens who try it on. From being a kid I had an enormous sense of responsibility which I still have today so never gave my parents a moments exasperation but it has made me quite earnest, people pleasing at many costs to me and prone to worry. These kids, as bloody annoying as they are now are indulging in a bit of rebellion and self entitlement. I like the spark.

This afternoon s was asking what is the point of his younger brother and how we have effectively ruined his life because of our inability to wait and slackness with contraception!!!

That she doesnt have a coat. I hace offered to buy her a coat. She has ordered several and rejected them. She is now refusing to look for a coat either online or in actual shops.. She is cold. Somehow this is my fault.

It's my fault if it's raining & ds can't go skateboarding.

It's not just me! Currently DS is having a temper tantrum at both the internet and I about how slow it is ( I'm obviously personally responsible for that because I pay the broadband bill.)
Yesterday though it was the fact that nobody else's parents make them do ANYTHING in the house and asking him to put his clean clothes in his drawers is evil!

My 15yo ds is moaning because dh hasn't had the car valeted! Apparently he smelt "rank" all day at school.

He was bloody lucky to get a lift on a Tuesday.

Generalised grumpiness today from DS1 Not sure what about but I got the mother of all eye rolls when I asked if he needed me to wash his PE kit.

The other one seems happy enough.

Oh god the entitled teen holiday sulk. Apparently I'm the shittest. Parent in the world because the schedule Thomson Dreamliner plane we were scheduled to fly on was swapped for a shit one with no screen. He didn't talk to me for must if the week. Lol

this is the best thread I've read in ages

Ds at 13 generally has the hump if my dh manages to finish work early to pick him up from school. Because he drives too far into the school with our "rubbish 7 seater" car that isnt a range rover or Subaru and has "seriously the worst music playing".
He would rather be wet and cold and deal with a 40min bus ride and 10 min walk, than get into a "old 2010 reg car".
O why cant we be cool. Little sod.

As great a read as this thread is, it isn't making me feel any better. I don't have a teenager just a threenager, who moaned at literally everything today, I was hoping she was going to grow out of it.

Another non teen that still acts like one - after giving me his itinerary for a weekend at home that doesn't involve seeing us at all I had the audacity to ask him some questions about said itinerary-he wishes "everyone" would just chill!

Teens are like gigantic toddlers. You can never pick what it is that’s going to set them off. When you’re in a good space it can be very funny but it can also be exasperating. Sometimes I think my daughter is the brattiest brat on the planet but my sister said, “you know no one believes you, she really is the most gorgeous girl”. (Thank you sis!)

Apparently it’s normal for them to be hideous to family and delightful to everyone else? I don’t know.

But this year I’ve heard some very sad stories of teenagers we know with anorexia, severe anxiety, suicide ideation etc and that stays with me. I try to remember how fragile teens can be and that all these little rebellions are part of working out who they are.

13 year old was told to be in the car at 810 if she wanted a lift. She strolled to the car at 820 (skirt rolled, make up looking perfect, hair tonged) to be dropped at 10 year olds school so she would have to walk 10 minutes through woods to her school. This ruined her life as couldn’t I see she had spent forever doing her hair and now IT WILL BE RUINED!!!

I explained I gave no shits and she needs to stop being a shallow bloody Kardashian follower and get her arse (once converted by unrolled skirt) out the fucking door in time not waste fucking hours tonging her hair for school!

Blood pressure was nice and high this morning!!

16 year old has had no sulks today and has shuffled in from college and made me a hot chocolate and have me a hug but we have dinner to get through and I’ve put onion in the bolognese so that won’t please him!

I dared to ask DD (11) how her day was. Then I had the temerity to ask her what she wanted for tea, and THEN, wait for it.... I told her I love her!! I know, I'm a monster, aren't I ?!

This thread has been a godsend. I always say I love that DD is so feisty and confident, I just wish she wasn't like that with me

11yr old dd - The school is running 2 trips for 100% attendance, cinema or bowling. How can the school possibly expect her and her friends to choose?!!! Its just so unfair!!! The teachers hate her!!!!!!
7 days to get the form in with her choice, not sure she'll be going at all with that attitude!
I said, seen as she only has said required 100% attendance because of me getting her to school everyday, it should actually be me going on this trip anyway!😂
Eye-rolls, tutting, stomping followed! 😂😂😂😂 and all this is costing me £14!!!!!
99% attendance next term i think!

DD was asked to wash her plate. Shouted reply: 'God, do I have to spend the rest of my life washing up!!!'

19yr old dd - moaning that self confessed game addict of a bf is on his xbox again and ignoring her!!!!
I never wanted her to go out with him in the first place, but its all my fault!!!!
(Well, wake up and smell the coffee!!!!!😣)

Blood pressure was nice and high this morning!!

I did a 24h blood pressure monitor a couple of years ago. When I went back for the results, the nurse pointed to the 3 quite high peaks and asked what was happening at those times.

"Breakfast/school run, homework and bedtime" I said. She marked it as normal

Ds1 stormed up the stairs to have a calm down in his room. He caught his foot on the stair gate. He fell dramatically on to the stairs, crying. I asked him if he had hurt himself and he screamed all the way up the stairs, stamping...he stopped at the top and turned to look at me and screamed again. Joy. He did apologise when he came down.

Ha ha ha Ha! How long have you got!!!!
Dss sulking cos I dared to ask him to bring his dirty washing down.
Dsd cos I keep telling her to take her good down inside.
Dd cos I won't weigh out her ingredients for food tech tomorrow.
And this is all likely to change momentarily into 3 whole new sulks for 3 equally pathetic reasons! Love teenagers!!!!!

The big one is sulking because the “fucking WiFi is shit”, and because I’ve confiscated her TV dongle for swearing at me.

The smaller one is sulking because I wouldn’t let her make a crisp sandwich 10 minutes before dinner.

This is following a sulk because I lost my shit at coming in the front door after work and finding abandoned blazers, shoes, school bags and wrappers all over the living room floor.

Re the dreamliner thing....

We are flying BA down to Malaga next August.

If you book early and I mean within an hour of them becoming available you can get a great luggage allowance for more or less what you would pay Ryanair or EasyJet. We have a load of snorkelling gear so this makes sense.

My DH works his arse off ( as do a lot of people) and in the last year or so has been doing twelve and thirteen hour days, no mean feat at 61. Anyway the longer the hours the bigger the bonus.........so this year he said how much is the difference between economy and club, I replied £70 a head and he had a head rush and said F**k it, just do it.

I have never flown Club, will probably never fly Club again, I was giddy with excitement when I told the teen.

To which he replied, is that not just a bit ostentatious ??

Beam me up Scotty.

DH said no problem, it is a flexible ticket, we can cancel yours and you can fly economy, all of a sudden he was misunderstood and we were mean.

Dd 14 has stinking feet. Not helped at all by her insistence of wearing cheap plastic sweat enclosing boots over the decent leather ones she was bought for school.

I told her to go do something about her feet yesterday, like was them, and she went off, telling me i easily, I could get away from her feet, they follow her everywhere!!!