Obviously I did it just to spite my 15yr old

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I broke the shower this morning.
Obiously I did it purely to spite my 15yr old and no one else could possibly be as inconvenienced as her by having to have a bath instead.
What things have you done on purpose purely to make life difficult for your teen (according to your teen)?

I once said "ohh well done" when DD managed a difficult intercept during a netball match. I was suitably punished by not being allowed to watch any further games, so spent an hour every week sitting in my car MNing and eating chocolate- for the next 2 years - instead of on the sidelines in all weathers with the other mums...

My dad had a lada! It was a step up from the old skoda pick up truck which he managed to break the window of and instead of ever fixing it he just duct taped a piece of perspex in. It was like that for years! My kids are small so I am reading this thread to prepare myself for ~6 years time.

I'm now 38 and can confirm that my dad is still the most mortifying man I've ever met. I love him so much but... my god. My sister in law got engaged recently and when she put out her hand to show my dad her ring, he kissed her hand. That man wouldn't know a social cue if it smacked him in the face (which she nearly did).

The same man who DID walk into the disco at 1am to pick me up when I was 13, actually walked right in. What a psycho. I was slow dancing with a boy in my year. I'm still sweating at the traumatic memory.

I swear I'm not even going to look at my children between the age of 11 up until they need help with a deposit for a house.

I would just think you had dementia, and feel sorry for you…

In 1990 I was 12 and had long long hair that was permed. I had it in a half up half down in style. Bunsen burner on. I was talking to my new best friend and ignoring my old best friend from primary school and flicking my hair back and forth. My old best friend said Hazel your hair is on fire. I told her to be quiet and stopped being jealous. She said it again and I put my hand to my hair and yes it was on fire. I ran to the teacher and all he said that was what I got for having half a tin of hairspray in my hair. My hair was ok just singed but I ended up having it all cut out in 1991

Changed days lol

I drove my 15 year old for an hour early one Saturday morning so she could help out with her friends’ family’s lovely business (think wellness activities). I should not have accepted the invitation to have a quick look the premises round apparently as that’s ‘sooooooo embarrassing’ 😔

Lol it would've been very early on set dementia and she was VERY convincing that she knew them, so much so I still continued to cautiously ask if she did if she managed to keep a straight face as we walked away

Maybe I’m just po-faced and have a humour bypass but I don’t see how it’s amusing! (I loathe "pranks" - to me they’re just ways to upset/humiliate others.)

That's fair but it was always done in a way to confuse rather than upset or humiliate

I couldn't find her whiteboard pen this morning (five minutes before she had lto leave the house), helped her style her hair wrong, and am being unreasonable for refusing to engage in the drama and be yelled at and treated as a punch bag.

Sorry (how British!) but I don’t see how that’s amusing either.

This made me laugh slow dancing the shame not the dancing the dad walking in hahahahah id never live it down.

Let’s face it, mum’s are predominantly there to take the blame for everything when you have children, just looking at them let alone breathing is enough to set them off.

Oh I can top this. In the late 80s my Dad had a Skoda, then a Lada. If they weren’t bad enough he bought a very old ambulance and painted it with black gloss paint. 30+ years later I cringe at the thought of exiting that monstrosity outside school.

I don't get it.

I ruined my 15 yo DD's life this morning because she was running late for school. I helped her out by giving her a lift, but apparently I'm responsible for time moving on 🙄

Yeah I would be wondering all day who she was and tbh I know it sounds a bit soft, but it would make me anxious that I might have forgotten someone so "friendly". And, worryingly, at my age it might well be the beginning of dementia. This is having a joke at someone's expense rather than just having a laugh.

I umpire teenage netball matches, I've seen all kinds of fisticuffs between the teenagers and their parents. Having said that, the teenagers usually behave well on court - it's often the adult players who have the biggest tantrums, rather than the teenagers! It can be tricky if there's a teenager playing, and their parent is umpiring; and occasionally, it's the other way round, with older teenagers. The spectating parents can be annoying to us umpires, especially if they start commenting unduly loudly or nastily. It's funny what the teenagers find embarrassing, or not - most of them don't mind at all wearing crocs with their socks, when the game is over, or maybe their parents order them to change into crocs instead of their expensive netball trainers, for the short walk to the car.

Not related to that, I remember cringing as a teenager when my mum told off some rough-looking teenage lads on a train who were climbing all over the seats, in her best teacher voice, using phrases such as "I shall not hesitate to get the guard!!!". Oh, for when trains had guards, and teenagers usually didn't carry weapons.

I really did laugh at the ending you wrote but truely hope your daughter gets well and healthy .

My son is 17, we did this when he was 7, he turned round to me, with a look that could kill and a voice I had never heard before, said, do not do that to me ever again! I was genuinely scared!

I managed to persuade my son out at the weekend on the promise of a short walk and a cake, but he insisted her knew a better way, cue a much longer walk and then the cake shop was shut, and all this was my fault!

I arranged for a plumber to come and fit new taps and mend out toilet this morning. I told DS23 last night so he could have a shower before the plumber arrived at 10.30. Apparently I ruined his day off because he didn’t get up in time so couldn’t have a shower before going out.

I’ve ruined DD2’s life over a pair of white crocs… DD’s crocs have been worn to death so I said I’d get her some new ones. She looked on the croc website and they are reduce. I looked on Amazon where they are cheaper than the reduced crocs website. I stupidly said I’d buy them from amazon, this is apparently unacceptable. They should be bought directly from the croc website. I asked why, another stupid decision on my part. They are reduced on the crocs website, therefore cheaper than they should be so I should get them from there. I then even more stupidly suggested that once you included delivery costs they were nearly £10 cheaper on amazon, and amazon is next day delivery. Apparently I’m so unreasonable and I should want her to have them from crocs….
Please, make it make sense!!!

Yep just looking at her is a crime at 15 🥴😖🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 I’m loving this age.

ive just ruined my teens life by signing the consent form for his end of term fun reward trip to a trampoline park and pizza. I’m a witch.