Today my teenager was upset because.....

[Positivelypatient]

On the back of the amusing threads about the irrationality of toddlers and their meltdowns, I have this for you.

Today my 17 DD is upset because I suggested booking an expensive (for me as a single parent) spa day for her and her sisters and me that we would go to on her 18th birthday. I hasten to add this is NOT in place of presents, cake and special attention for the birthday girl. Apparently I have made her feel worthless for suggesting she share her special day with her family.

My dd tonight was horrified as i did not know what Discord (?) was and then rolled her eyes when is asked her to explain (apparently 'boomers don't know anything',....am I a boomer??!))

My dd tonight was horrified as i did not know what Discord (?) was and then rolled her eyes when is asked her to explain (apparently 'boomers don't know anything',....am I a boomer??!))

My DD calls me a Boomer. She's sort of given it up now that I've starting referring to them as the Zoomers

actually (and I know people will yell) if she would like presents and cake and birthday girl attention on her special birthday then i think that's fair enough...it is her birthday after all whether or not she was BU is how the convo went.

@godmum56 and she is getting them as well as the spa day, if you’d bothered to read the post properly.

My son 16 called me ungrateful this evening because I cooked a roast!
Apparently he wasn't hungry enough 😂

And why did I dump all his clean clothes in his bed 🤷🏼‍♀️

All while I forked out £400 on his college trips

Tonight DD was upset with me because I sat at her place at the table, on the bench seat. We changed the table yesterday and she decided that it didn't work with the bench seat so she flounced off to the other end of the table (it seats 8 but we are only 3 at the moment)

So today I took the bench seat so she could have a chair instead. Apparently I am being so unreasonable because this is HER seat.

the main reason 60s teens wouldn't have said those things is because of the fear of being on the wrong end of ANOTHER violent assault by one parent or the other.

@LaetitiaASD what nonsense.

Some of these are funny, but a lot are spoilt brat behaviour imo. And yes I have raised teens, 3 of them, but none of them behaved like some of the examples on here

Place marking to read later. Two grumpy teens here

@RockinHorseShit you win the cool award. I want you to be my mum please

My DS (16) is upset with me because I asked him to let me see the school photo he has brought home. OMG Why do you want to? was his response when I said, Because I want to order copies of it. Your Grandmas will want one each and we always order one.

Apparently it is now unreasonable of me to purchase the yearly school uniform photo, despite the fact that we have done so every year since he was in Reception. He is now Y12.

FYI Apparently it isn't that he doesn't like the photo. He just can't be 'arsed' to find it in his bag. That would be too much effort.

DD(19) is currently not talking to me I'm gutted obviously because I have suggested that her Christmas gifts go in a gift bag under the tree with the other adults gifts as opposed to being set out on the sofa as if Santa has been. She actually wailed "Santa always leaves my presents on the sofa"

She'll be 20 by the time Christmas comes & hasn't believed in Santa for the past 10 years FFS

Wow you guys have been busy! Its been a real tonic to read about your teens.

I've had a long tiring day at work, DD hasn't surfaced from her room all evening so there is an uneasy peace in the house tonight.

I was "just trying to be cool" when I admired his new hair style and "why do you have to spoil everything by liking it". I apologised and pointed out that I didn't think dying his hair was a big deal and I did genuinely like it. I've also been dying mind for twenty years so I never thought about it as a problem.

@Lifeinthescratcher no need to apologise, when I started the thread last night I was actually really quite upset about my DDs behaviour and still am now, parenting seems a thankless task at the best of times. (I am secretly quite relieved she'll be going to uni next year).

My DD (13) was extremely annoyed with me today for trying to help her fill in her activities log for DoE. Apparently I've "done it all wrong."

I compounded this heinous crime by asking her to use a plate when eating a snack of cheese and crackers. Cue loads of eye rolling and stomping.

Her dad asked what she was listening to on her AirPods to which he got the reply: "Oh my God will you just stop trying to talk to me!"

Me (feeding 7 month old son his dinner) to DD13 ‘could you get a yoghurt from the fridge for your brother please?’ (her other brother is 3 and can’t reach fridge)

DD13 ‘what am I, the whole family’s slave now?’

🤣

Oh and me to DD13 ‘did friend1 and friend 2 have a nice half term’

DD13 ‘eurgh why do you have to be so interested’

🤷🏼‍♀️

[quote Positivelypatient]@Lifeinthescratcher no need to apologise, when I started the thread last night I was actually really quite upset about my DDs behaviour and still am now, parenting seems a thankless task at the best of times. (I am secretly quite relieved she'll be going to uni next year).[/quote]

@JenniferWooley

DD(19) is currently not talking to me I'm gutted obviously because I have suggested that her Christmas gifts go in a gift bag under the tree with the other adults gifts as opposed to being set out on the sofa as if Santa has been. She actually wailed "Santa always leaves my presents on the sofa"

She'll be 20 by the time Christmas comes & hasn't believed in Santa for the past 10 years FFS

Thank god I’m not the only one with a 19 year old like this!!!

Genuine question. Did you all get away with that sort of crap as teenagers?

No I would not have got away with answering back my parents, I would have been hit or grounded or refused food. I wasn't allowed to give my opinions on anything so I was the perfectly behaved child but scared of everyone and everything.

My 14 yo dd got extremely annoyed and told me off for 'doing too much for her and not getting her to help out around the house', apparently I am making her lazy. She delivered this tirade from her bedroom on Sunday, I had not managed to convince her to get dressed all day...

Loving the thread .
I've a nearly 14 year old dd and everything is my fault and she always has to have the last word, God it drives me potty.

@thewalkers Crying with laughter at your one

@Lanique

My list is endless:

We had the temerity to suggest earlier that we all go to Antigua next Summer after their exams, but it might clash with 'other things' such as parties and drinking in fields with their mates

We 'threatened' to take them back to New Zealand for another Christmas next year, which was totally unacceptable as they like Christmas at home and could mean them missing out on Christmas parties. Bless them the poor lambs are still traumatised by the experience of being made to spend Christmas Day on a beach in Abel Tasman National Park a few years ago.

We took them to Dubai three years ago and dd2 still hasn't got over us 'making her' miss Halloween.

Other than that they're perfectly lovely girls that are, believe it or not, not spoiled at all other than in cases such as the above where the possibility of 'missing out' is too much to bear 🙄

Have you considered adoption - I'm up for that it sounds like you give your children amazing 🤩 experiences