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 ruined my teenage daughters life because she only got home baked cakes. Every other person she knew got shop bought ones. I am a reasonably good baker. Not sure how she survived 😀

I had an orange car with a green door from the scrap yard. Imagine ruining your 15 years old life like

I talked to supermarket check out staff. Obviously the whole store would watch in pity when l did this. And to make it worse l don't have a "normal" (Northern) accent. When one cashier gave me extra vouchers for a special deal the supermarket was running, son was astonished that they appeared to like me.

So it is interesting that almost half the posts are former teenagers confessing how they were the cool teenagers (aka brats).

So the ultimate shame is to show them this thread and remind them that what ever they think the dynamic is now it is inevitable- nay destiny- that history will repeat itself and they WILL become mothers with recalcitrant dc and they will own the cringe fest legacy. 😄

Good to see I am not alone!

I ruined my teen’s half term apparently by booking her one hour of tutoring a day as a result of her having failed nearly all her mocks. I said she should be thanking me for getting her extra help! But her exact words were ‘you aren’t letting me have a holiday’. Her GCSEs are in two months.

Was looking after young teenagers on an inset day whilst their parents worked, husband taken to hospital that day and told he had to stay in, he had no pjs at home so needed some quickly to take to hospital in the 10mins between dropping teens off and end of visiting hours so went to big Tesco near our house. Teens were traumatised at Tesco pj shopping and Uncle DH should have just worn a hospital gown to save their sanity the selfish git.

Absolutely everything I do!
Make her late for school ( she won't get out of bed). Starve her ( bc I won't make her a full on meal at 11pm).
Having a shamefully dirty car (only in her footwell).
I can't even spk to her on a morning because it makes her go slower.
Make her fat because I bought her a snack she begged me to buy...

Glad I'm not alone...oh and she's AUDHD and doesn't believe that either...

I asked my 15 DS if he’d just washed his hair. He hadn’t. Not a good start to our day

I had the temerity to have feet too small for the shoes my husband bought me for Christmas to fit her. 🙄

I was once mortified when aged around 14 my DM and her DP took me on holiday. There was a clubhouse with a disco and the pair of them had the absolute gall to get up and dance! Fancy wanting to enjoy yourself on holiday!

I meanwhile sat there with a face like they were drowning puppies in front of me.

@WendyA22 I had an orange car with a green door from the scrap yard. Imagine ruining your 15 years old life like that.

I mean as an adult I think it sounds unique and bet you never lost it in car parks...but yeah as a teen I'd have voluntarily put myself up for adoption!

I apologised to my mum when I was 21/22 for being a brat. She accepted my apology and laughed wait till you have daughters. I had 3 sons and none of them were anywhere as bad as my sister and I lol. My sister has 2 girls so she is going to suffer soon lol

Tinaforshort · Today 17:31

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.
Please, make it make sense!!!

To be honest, I'm sort of team DD here. Amazon are evil, exploitative, tax dodging bastards, with a near monopoly...

I confirmed DS would be at training on a WhatsApp group message a few weeks ago, rather than sending a message individually to the coach's WhatsApp. Unforgiveable behaviour from a grown woman, making DS the laughing stock of his generation. I'd say they still talk of little else.

VioletCharlotte · Today 16:56

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.

Well, that's just plain nasty! AND I bet you called him every 10 minutes from 8:30, when no reasonable person is out of bed and didn't send the plumber home, when he finally managed to crawl out of bed at the crack of 11.

I do know how you can live with yourself.
😪

Our youngest went through a phase where she constantly said “you can’t tell me what to do, I’m punk rock!”

She was being bossy the other week so I threw her favourite phrase back at her - if looks could kill I’d be well dead!

Can’t wait for her to have kids so we can teach them that phrase :D

Breathing.
Talking to them.
Looking at them.

I thought I was a great mum to my 11 year old last week when I ordered him a much coveted t-shirt. It was supposed to be delivered today, but it’s been delayed until tomorrow and wouldn’t you know it it’s all my fault. Obviously I didn’t stress the importance of it being delivered on time enough to Evri…

I also had the audacity to ask my 14 year old how training went tonight. Officially the worst mum ever!

@scalt

Thankyou for your reply.

No, no rebellion at all, glowing reports all round, teachers, Brownie and Guide leaders, even had one teacher begging me not to take DD1 out of her school. Maybe I was just lucky, but I wasn’t a rebellious teenager either.

Waiting for a bus with DS (12) the other day, obviously he'd chosen not to wear a coat, despite my warning that it was really cold. He was standing there absolutely shivering. I put my arm round him to try and warm him up a bit, because I'm an arsehole like that. He quite rightly went and stood 20 feet away from the bus stop.

I chose to not have the internet in our home, to try and avoid access to porn online.
The eternal moaning about it...
I did buy a word processing package so DC could present their school work 'typed up'.
DC felt deprived...

Hang in there everyone.

as Mark Twain said, “When I was 14 my parents knew absolutely nothing. It was amazing how much they had learned by the time I was 21…”

I ruined my 16 year old’s life last year by going to Bali on holiday instead of leaving him at home. I let him bring his laptop for gaming and made sure our hotels had wifi but apparently we were seen together (by strangers in a foreign country) while I was in my swimmers at the pool.

I am not sure if he will ever recover.

Tbf, that was a good line by your son, there. Made me laugh, anyway. I'm sure you looked nothing like a packet of polos, by the way 😜