Reasons my 15yr old hates me. Episode 437

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Today's installment...

1. We have a downstairs bathroom. "Only poor people have them" apparently. Don't worry she was VERY quickly put in her place about that one.

1. Our crockery doesn't match which is "like, really embarrassing". It definitely seemed embarrassing to her when she randomly turned up with friends all wanting food twice over Easter.

1. I won't let her do her own washing. We don't have a tumble dryer so it's a balance keeping on top of the washing and avoiding having wet clothing everywhere. She won't follow this system so it'll cause me extra hassle.

1. I frowned in her general direction.

1. The cat sneezed on her friend last week. Apparently I should know when the cat is about to sneeze or be able to stop her. She was so upset about it that she only remembered to tell me about it today.

Stay tuned for the next exciting episode in 10hrs.

Well I for one think your behaviour is outrageous, OP. Especially the last one.

I have two teens...you have my sympathy

Isn't it crazy how when people decide they are going to have children, they spend so much time trying to decide if they'll be able to cope with a baby and how they'll manage but absolutely no time wondering if they will cope with the teenage years....or was that just me?!

If you can’t stop your cat sneezing on your teenager then I don’t know how you can call yourself a mother or hold up your head in polite society.

Sounds like she needs to get out with her friends.

Absolutely! Do better!
I'm let off lightly with my 10 year old and not being allowed to sing along to shows or the radio.
I told her that it's the purpose of parents to annoy their children. All around me at the show agreed heartily.

At least she speaks to you - I'm so needy trying get attention from mine 😁

Have you had a listen to Sara Cox's Teen commandments podcast? It's quite entertaining.

Mine complained that I bought too many toppings for a pancake day gathering at ours with her friends. It was embarrassing apparently 😳
You win some you lose some pffft 🙄🤣

I remember my daughter (who grew up to be absolutely wonderful) yelling at me because her friends couldn’t possibly visit her.

Why?

Our fridge was embarrassingly small and she couldn’t let anyone see it, ergo, she would have no friends.

🤣🤣🤣 you are SO unfair! (In my best Harry Enfield voice)

I feel incredibly lucky every day to have escaped the sulky teen phase with all 3. Youngest 17 now. My mother meanwhile is fuming I never got pay back!! Teens can be hideous creatures.

Im crying OP.
my SD told me that she has told her friends my name is aurora and to go along with it because my name doesn’t give cool mum vibes. If I don’t she said she won’t have any friends over here ever again and her life will be over. She’s 8

looking forward to your next instalment

Well, if it’s your cat then it’s obviously your fault. You should apologise for existing, and buy her some food

At that age , mine told me to turn the car radio off when i picked her up from school in case her friends heard it when she opened the car door.
Classic fm was embarrassing her 🤣

Your poor daughter, does she need me to send the link for NSPCC? I can only imagine the hours in therapy she'll need to get over the trauma of mismatched crockery and cat sneezing on her friend

I only have a 13yo so hes not quite at the stage of hating me yet, but this made me smile/cringe as the plates thing is exactly the kind of stuff I would have moaned to my mum about way back when. Once had a hissy fit in IKEA as she wouldn't let me buy some wooden hangers to replace the perfectly decent plastic and metal ones we had. Thankfully I grew up, she forgave me, we look back and laugh. Here's hoping you (and I) get out the other side of the teen years in one piece and can look back and laugh too

I just got given a bollocking because I agreed with DS that he should publish his novel, and then also agreed that he shouldn't. He slammed the door on the way out. I am wrong about intellectual property law.

Teenagers are arseholes!
I am to blame for everything that goes on in
the world!!
When things aren’t going right for him he bombards me with messages at work!
Not sure what I can do from
here mate, why not speak to your other parent, you know the one that gets home from work at 2:15 every day. Give him some grief for a change! 🙄😂

actually this made me think of the time I was dog sitting and the dog (a big drooling boxer) sneezed in my sister’s yoghurt. I nearly died laughing at the look on her face

I remember so clearly doing aqua aerobics at about 8 months pregnant. A primary school group turned up and were being really rowdy. I was getting irritated by them. I then suddenly thought ‘oh shit I’m having one of them!!’

Because her sister is home from Uni

because I dropped her at the nail place on my way somewhere but they were busy so she came car shopping with me and we went to M/S on the way home

she was at the zoo all day with her mate

im a shit mum who loves her sister more

Mine spent all Friday hating me and his dad because we took him to the cinema to see the film he wanted to see with us but being out in public with parents is painfully embarrassing in case his friends see him, as none of them have parents you see

Mine just seem to have issues with each other. Then turn on me because 'i don't do anything about them (sibling)'

My kids are not teens yet but I’m a secondary teacher so I totally sympathise and today I:
Didn’t sufficiently admire one of my form group’s revision
Hadn’t yet watched a TV episode that one of them wanted to discuss

Mine didn’t want carrots today. Worst mother ever.

I hope you paid to makeup for still being alive.