AIBU to suggest that having a face like a slapped arse while on a holiday yo I didn't pay for be made a GCSE subject?

[DrSeuss]

Extra points would obviously be awarded if virtually all planned activities were arranged with you in mind and in consolation with you but still don't seem to suit. Specialist topics would include watching YouTube in a darkened room, texting your friends and Netflix.
I am enjoying the trip but DR (15) constantly has a face on. There are three pools which she visits for an hour or so each day. The trips she agreed to and which were chosen with her in mind are met with the slapped arse look throughout.

Is this just what holidays with teens are like?..There is no one I can leave her at home with so it's bring her or don't go.

Please offer me hope that she'll grow out of it!

She’s 15.

Leave her and go out.

She will definitely grow out of it. But it’s bloody infuriating while it lasts…

My DD, also 15, could do a PhD in finding fault with the smallest thing, turning it into a crisis and it ruining the whole day (if I’d let her get away with it) on holiday. At home she’s a delight - out of her own environment and it’s a struggle. She still declares every holiday the best ever 🤷‍♀️

Dd17 still doing this - she has a younger and older sibling who are very much better behaved and really kind (whilst she’s a cow to them a lot of the time). I don’t know the answer but God, I pray she’ll grow out of it. Here’s hoping yours does too!!

I can and do leave her behind. However, the trips she discussed and agreed to in advance are non refundable.

My 15 year old twins are prodigious in this subject and couple rattle off a decent PhD in pointless moaning, picky eating and mood hoovering.

im not gojng with them again until they PROMISE not to be arses. One of them said he had “PTSD” because the Canaries were so boring when I “dragged” them there last winter. What a bitch mother eh?

My husband is currently doing this. He didn’t choose the holiday this year and appears to be sulking because it’s not quite his thing. I tried to consult him because we were going to miss out on booking otherwise but he just grunted. For context he has been away already on his own this year doing his hobby, and chose the last 3 family holidays we’ve been on. But he is still sulking. The teens are doing the phone thing but then are engaging in activities and being pleasant for enough of the time. I’d take the teenage sulks because the grown man ones are utterly ridiculous and I’m posting here to avoid losing my shit…..

He’s a control freak.

I like to book / choose everything too. However, I wouldn’t sulk on holiday, ever, but I know I wouldn’t enjoy it as much if I hadn’t chosen it. I just think I’m better at planning. No one in my household wants the planning job anyway, bar me, so I’ve not yet been truly tested!

You have my sympathy , my just 18 year old still wants to come with us and i end up being the referee between her and her dad when all i want to do is absolutely nothing but sit around and read my book because i work so hard and i really need a rest !
I can certainly tell when she's bored 🙄.
We are going away again in September and i really hope she doesn't come .
She always thanks us and could be worse i'm sure but omg she can be bloody hard work on holiday, she would get a B at times i'm sure !

After the age of 16 I never again went on holiday with my parents again. They insised on going to a a caravan in Wales. It can get a bit boring after so many years. I just told them I couldn't get the leave so I stayed at home. At 17 I began going away with friends.. My mother never owned a passport or went abroad in her life.