Obviously I did it just to spite my 15yr old

[Oollliivviiaa]

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 said hello to my daughter's friend, thereby totally humiliating my daughter.

i know. So terrible. Really need to up my game! I do love the tone of surprise (
followed by an argument!) I get when I ask him to shower - like it hasn’t been a daily occurrence for as long as he can remember. 🤣

It's too late now but my dd wanted to be a trust fund baby, how dare I not be a celebrity or marry a finance bro to ensure she didn't have to work as an adult.

She’s food restricting and is worryingly underweight Dh and I are kindly but firmly insisting she eats - like the bastards we are.

We once suggested that as there weren't enough clean knives to lay the table perhaps DS could get some dirty ones out of the dishwasher and wash them. Either that or summon the knife fairy.

One of the clean knives bounced off the table when it was eventually 'laid'.

As a teacher of teenagers obviously I ruin their lives on a daily basis, but I’ll never forget one theatre trip we took y9s on. The cool-but-naughty girl was of course sat next to us teachers so we could keep her in check, and just before the play started I offered the teacher next to me a piece of chocolate. “Ooh, lovely”, she said as she took a few squares, and the look of UTTER contempt and hatred the girl shot us has never left me. The complete rage she clearly felt at overhearing that friendly interaction is mind-boggling. To go through your life like that just be so exhausting.

I hope she starts eating sensibly soon. X

My ex -husband's late father would introduce himself to ex-h's friends, by holding out his hand, telling them his entire name, but they can call him by his nickname spelled xyz. I found it hilarious

🖐️ I told my daughter she was a really cute and smiley baby. Which was obviously code for “but you’re a fat ugly cow now”. My bad.

I once asked, in a meeting about GCSE options, how Additional Maths was offered.

This gave the impression that 1) I was alive and DC has a mum, 2) I expected my DC might qualify to take additional maths, and 3) I spoke in my non-regional accent highlighting that I was different than the other mums.

I painted the walls of a room in my house a colour that I chose….

Thank you for understanding. If you can believe it on top of having to parent my own children I ALSO have to water her plants. 😅😂

Is your daughter my daughter?

I stuck my head round his bedroom door to ask if he had anymore school shirts that needed washing in his room. This was completely unreasonable of me and the door was promptly slammed. Clearly I’m supposed to let him go to school wearing a shirt that smells like something died.

Earlier, we bought a nice lunch for him, cooked it for him and his dad ruined his whole entire meal by asking him to scrape his plate. Utterly terrible.

@Poppymeldrum If it's one of these migraine inducing bright green ones that have suddenly started flooding the roads for then you have my sympathy and hopefully your well earned Pride of Britain award will be with you soon.

But the thought of you sat slumped in the passenger seat with your hood up like a teen did make me laugh!

When 18 year Ds was 10, I turned up to collect him wearing sunglasses, none of the other mums were wearing sunglasses yet.

I put patches on the elbows of my teen DDs school cardigan. apparently holes were the fashion and she’s worked hard to make them.

I took my eldest to buy some new boxers from a well known supermarket when he was around 13. I had the audacity to to take a boxer out of the pack to see how large they were. He was mortified. NEVER came shopping with me again !

I asked DS how his day in school had been. He shot me a look of contempt and said “you wouldn’t understand you just sit at home all day with the telly on”. (I WFH full time). My immediate reaction was to laugh at his ridiculousness and he stomped off upstairs looking very wounded. (He did apologise soon after for his outburst)!

Oh it gets better op …… wait till 17 🤪

I asked her how college was last week and got told I was really nosy and she doesn’t have to tell me anything

I think you have just got to be able to laugh about it

only good thing is the older they get the more they just arrive to tell you tea looks disgusting, shower , sleep and leave again !

im hoping she chills out a bit 🤏

By not taking my son to his football match today as it’s my birthday, and ALL I wanted was a rest.

My seven year old has the same complaint. He wants a holiday at home cause he likes his own bed. He’s like an old man

I recall threatening to buy a pair of leopard skin patterned stiletto shoes to wear for Parents' evening, a school where dark blue coats were the basic parental uniform for such occasions.

Buying oat and sultana cookies instead of chocolate chip ones (though they looked remarkably similar both to me and the teen). "Is it any wonder I have trust issues?"

That's terrible. I made the mistake of chatting to my eldest DDs friend when she called round and DD had popped to the shop.