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 “Good morning” to a boy in my DD’s year when I passed him in the street.

I know him because he used to live next door, but my DD was absolutely furious with me.

Yesterday. I did mine, dhs, and newly turned 18 dds pack up.
She came home from work with a list of complaints.
She changes her mind on a daily basis. This morning found me in the garden patting the flour off her Pannini and ensuring the layer of cheese was there with her tuna and sweetcorn because how can I expect her to nuke it in the microwave without cheese?

I'd like to point out I'm no mug and two days complaints in a row means she's doing her own pack up the following week.
She had no pack up last week.

To be fair , Im 54 and Id not forgive you for that either .

The cardinal sin of ‘never having anything to eat’ inside the burgeoning overflowing fridge because it doesn’t contain a Ginsters pasty or microwaveable instant burger. My gargantuan 18 year old muscle bound son is usually left starving and wasting away on the sofa because no one thought to replenish supplies of essentials like Orios, Doritos or savoury things that cook in less than 60 seconds. Tragically child protective services can’t rescue him as he’s been out at the gym, the pub and Nando’s when they last called.

I ruin my 12 yr olds life on a daily basis by listening to MY music in MY car when I give him a lift to school. And then I commit the further sin of not instinctively knowing exactly where he wants dropping off each day. Apparently I should just know to drop him to the gates/to the car park/to the entrance/near the bus park/down the road. Obviously I get it wrong every day and embarrass him to the point he seethe that I'm "so cringe!"

I've also purposely tripped him up with the vacuum cleaner wire because I knew he'd be walking past with his eyes and ears shut.

Refusing to let them have phones in their bedroom overnight until they had finished school, dd said it made her look like a baby, friends laughed at her, it’s so unfair blah blah. She got over it 😂

Oh I often get told by my 20 years old there’s nothing to eat and ‘I’ll just cook my own dinner then’

Though his definition of ‘cooking dinner’ is ordering a Dominoes delivery or as a real stretch of his culinary skills - sticking sausages and chips in the air fryer

Refusing to let them have phones in their bedroom overnight until they had finished school, dd said it made her look like a baby, friends laughed at her, it’s so unfair blah blah. She got over it 😂

I think many of my 6th form Chemistry friends would have like the teacher to have stopped them using neat acetone to remove Friday afternoon nail varnish, ready for the weekend. Their nails did, eventually, grow back!

When they asked Can I have a ruler? I would reply Queen Victoria.

Hate to tell you but it won't stop then!

Years ago like most teachers in the UK I was subjected to 'Lauren', the Catherine Tate character, 'am I bovvered' etc. At the end of one lesson the worst culprit stayed behind and said she needed some help with her coursework, I replied 'Am I bovvered?' and she looked shocked, this went on for a couple of minutes until I said 'Not nice is it?' and we made plans for her to stay behind to sort the coursework out, she actually went as far as apologising. Next day I got a call from her mother and I thought Oh hell, her mother said Don't you ever talk to my daughter like that again, unless I'm there to enjoy it!

I'm going to steal "I'm punk rock" to use on my daughter.

I once said "I'm shook, is that how I say it?" to my daughter. She said "no. That isn't how you say it. YOU don't say it at all". Then gave me a withering stare and walked off😂

I returned a wave to one of her friends who I've known since nursery. My daughter was mortified because apparently you don't wave back. She gave me permission to do a chin nod in future to acknowledge but of course I still "just don't get it". I said it would be much easier if I just wave to her friends to start with in future. That went down well. 😂 Now I start to move my hand whenever I see one of her friends and she goes mad. So cruel!

Every day when I drop mine off at school . My car is embarrassing as it's dirty (it's not) and how dare I drop off at places where everyone will see how poor we are. The car is only messy in her foot well, where she drops empty bottles and packets.
And how dare I do anything to draw attention to her as she then exits the car and slams the door so hard!.

That is brilliant!! 🤣🤣

The slamming of car doors!!! Wtaf is that about??

My ds does it and it actually hurts my ears!!

My daughter is only 11 and today we are the worlds worst parents because we don’t live in a big house in the middle of nowhere where and have enough space for her to have a couple of horses! 🙄

I'm paying £50 a week for an A level tutor in a subject my DS is struggling with. I am spending well over £2000 a year just to make his life miserable.

Oh, and on another occasion I took my daughter out to a cool part of London to do some shopping and buy hugely expensive street food that she'd seen on tiktok. Upon coming out of the tube and soaking up the street performer and the colour of the market and smell of food I turned to her and said 'this is definitely my vibe'. This was so mortifying that quite rightly I was blanked for the entire trip.

I mean that is quite cringe. 🤣

I took my punishment, learnt my lesson, and have never referred to vibes again

TheGhostsOfMeAndYou · Today 20:15

My daughter is only 11 and today we are the worlds worst parents because we don’t live in a big house in the middle of nowhere where and have enough space for her to have a couple of horses! 🙄

Comfort yourself in the knowledge that you aren't as evil as me, mine would like similar, plus a swimming pool. It doesn't have to be a big one, just 25 metres.

At around age 14-15 my mother ruined my life by offering my friends and I some homemade cake. I mean, did she mean to show us up as the poor folk who couldn't afford shop bought (I eventually realised homemade was a lot nicer!)

I am 51 and have never forgiven my mum for not buying me a pony!

I asked my 16 yr old how college was, apparently I am just weird!