Teenage girls are total dicks

[Codswallop20]

They really are. Selfish hormone driven cock wombles.

I think they should all be forced to live on an island and only be allowed to return when they are sane.

AIBU??

[MissPeregrine]

@TurquoiseDragon DS is 15, hoping he will at some point not be ‘nose blind’

[MsTSwift]

Mine are both pretty lovely. We enjoy hanging out with them. Some other teens are vile - Dd aged 13 was pushed out a friendship group and socially annihilated in May out of nowhere for no reason.. She’s rebuilt and now has much better friends but will be wary for life. The group are now doing exactly the same thing to another girl. Cruelty as sport basically.

[Benjispruce5]

@MsTSwift my DD17 had similar. Vile.

[UtterSocks]

My 18 year old DD despises me 90% of the time and desperately needs me to sort her life out the other 10%. She is a wonderful human being with everyone else. I tell myself it will pass, I was basically Satan until I was 18. When I left home and realised the world didn’t revolve around me and nobody did what my mum did for me I became a whole lot nicer. Fingers crossed that history repeats itself! I do miss my gorgeous little girl that made houses for spiders out of shoeboxes and spent hours painting my nails with horrible nail art efforts which I bravely sported in public so as not to offend her! (My 21 year old son is, and always has been, a complete joy. Boys are easy!)

[UtterSocks]

But as previous posters have said, teenage girls can be brutal to each other too and I’m always mindful that o don’t understand the pressures DD is under (the panic about Instagram photos for prom was unreal! She is 100 times more beautiful than I was at that age but so anxious and insecure - she would have been better growing up in the 80s when we all looked a bit crap bit thought we were Madonna!)

[Rosebel]

I feel like this about 50 %of the time.
Sometimes I have sweet, funny, helpful kids who are really good company. Other days they are like different people. Grumpy, rude, ungrateful, answering back....
They are 15 and 13 so long way to go yet. I also have an 18 month old son and hoping teenage boys are easier.

[ILoveHuskies]

@MsTSwift

Mine are both pretty lovely. We enjoy hanging out with them. Some other teens are vile - Dd aged 13 was pushed out a friendship group and socially annihilated in May out of nowhere for no reason.. She’s rebuilt and now has much better friends but will be wary for life. The group are now doing exactly the same thing to another girl. Cruelty as sport basically.

My dd12 had same

What is wrong with these nasty people 😞

[Comedycook]

My 21 year old son is, and always has been, a complete joy. Boys are easy!)

I wish. My Ds 13 is a complete nightmare. Absolutely vile.

[Rosewaterblossom]

SOME teenage girls are horrible, some are nice, some just have their moments. Then again some females are little bitches well into adulthood....

[Perrymenopausal]

I was an arsehole during my teenage years. My teen dd on the other hand is rather lovely. I keep waiting for the switch in personality, but so far so good.

[Nomoreusernames1244]

Yabu.

Some teenage girls are a pain, some are lovely. Same with teenage boys.

Fwiw my mum would say i was an awful teenager. Truth was if she’d have listened to me instead of dismissing all my emotions as “hormones” And saying how horrible I was we’d probably have a better relationship. I went through a very traumatic event at 12 and was obviously troubled. But apparently my behaviour was just “hormones”.

I hate it when people just write kids off as hormonal and teenage.

[Lacesaskew]

I hate it when people just write kids off as hormonal and teenage.

Sorry you went through what you did at twelve Nomoreusernames1244 and that you didn't get the support you needed from your mum. That's awful .

Respectfully, I don't think posters are writing off all teens as "hormonal" here. Some posters have commented how their teens can be fine one minute and very emotional the next. And although I agree it is not right to label one section of society as being "X" or "y" , as everyone is an individual, equally I don't think it is right to dismiss the lived experience of many parents who are finding their teens' behaviour challenging, some to the point where their own mh is being affected too. Parents and teens alike are just struggling along the best way they can in the context of daily life, work, study, and currently the pandemic. Time is short and communication often strained. Parents often have good intentions but make mistakes. And some parents are really struggling themselves. It's not parents v teens or vice versa. It's a collective struggle!

[MsTSwift]

I read a book about Stalin recently and his tactics mirrored those of some 13 year old girls. Identical.

[MsTSwift]

Sadly the badly behaved hormonal one in our house is probably me. My teens told me off on our British summer holiday for moping. I should be cheerful and make the best of it according to them.

[Chakraleaf]

I have 3 girls. Dd15 is horrid at times

[Benjispruce5]

@MsTSwift it’s ironic when they turn the parenting back on you isn’t it?
@Lacesaskew I agree.

[JudgeJ]

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

You a teacher by any chance OP?
Funnily enough I was talking to a year 11 girl last week who said “Miss was I really horrible to you when I was younger? Do you think I’m better now?” And she was then (close to permanent exclusion more than once, made a few teachers doubt their career choice) and she’s lovely now.

I was at the checkout in a supermarket and the young woman on the till said You taught at blankety blank school, didn't you? I confessed that I had taught there a few years back.
I were Name Name and oh, weren't I a right cow MIss?
At last we can agree on something!
I'll fucking kill my kids if they grow up like me, you shoulda slapped me into the middle of next week!

[TurquoiseDragon]

[quote MissPeregrine]@TurquoiseDragon DS is 15, hoping he will at some point not be ‘nose blind’ [/quote]
That was probably peak smell time.

Until I came home from work one day to find that DS had co-opted his older sister into helping him shave his pits. His reasoning was that the hair and skin in that area had an overlay of grease, etc, that he struggled to clean and he wanted to have a fresh start. DD told me she shoved something up her nostrils to block the smell.....

DS now shaves his pits regularly, he prefers the hairless feeling and he says it helps him with keeping BO at bay.

Other than the BO, my DC were generally decently behaved, although they had moments, like pretty much anyone.

[afrikat]

I was horrendous from 13-16. As soon as I hit 6th form I was like a different person

[HeadPain]

Well I disagree

[EyesAsGreenAsAFreshPickledToad]

@A8mint

You reap what you sow!

Bit misogynistic of you to blame op, don’t you think?