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.

Apparently I want to ruin my daughter's life and make her unsuccessful......because I wouldn't let her use my very expensive perfume and suggested she used my impulse body spray instead!! 😂😂
This thread is just as hilarious as it is ridiculous!!

DD14 came into my room this morning with a mini dress on with a slit up the thigh. I told her she couldn’t wear that to school as it’s not appropriate and they would sent her home. She stormed off and put jeans on. She also raged at me for eating the chocolate in the fridge which she was saving to make brownies…tonight…apparently?!

@MarieT

The stealth boasting on this thread is hilarious

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@DoYouLikeOwls

I don't get the stealth comment?

People just happening to mention their holidays in Venice, Florida, New Zealand, etc...

Because she asked to be collected from her friends house where she had stayed overnight. I said I would get her at 11am. I arrived at 10.58 and she said I was ‘ too early’ followed by a big sigh. How I love half term.

[quote Ericaequites]@honeygriff- At my house, the hair tongs would have gone missing, as in a plastic bag and hidden in cat food bin/sewing stash/father’s fishing waders. Burning bed and head means she is too reckless to use these.[/quote]
I have declared them a danger to shipping! I've taken over all hair curling duties. I cannot believe how hot they get, they burnt through the heat mat. They seem much worse than straighteners. Nurse Granny is insisting we dress the burn, it's fairly nasty I have to say.

I love this thread, it makes me feel so normal, I have 2 dds, one is 19 and generally isn’t to bad but so many of these comments sounds like what we have experienced with the 17 year old. When do they grow out of it?

@creampuff99

I spent hours tidying up son's room when he was at College, making piles outside his room of all clothes too small for him etc. He came home, put all his clothes back, threw the hoover down the stairs and came to mess my room up so that I could see what it felt Like. Internet is down for up to 72 hours so both teenagers in a complete huff with me as it is clearly my fault that someone crashed into the BT box up the road 🤦‍♀️

That's just awful behaviour

@thewalkers

My 15year old is huffy with me because I have a song on my Spotify that he has(a song that came out when I was a kid, just revamped). 🤣 I've never seen someone performance delete a song before.

My very hip and edgy 17yo asked me if I'd heard of Motley Crue. ... We bought him a car for Xmas, he was unhappy because it wasn't a big diesel guzzling thing, we told him he could sign it back over to us and buy his own.... He didn't.

@WhoWants2Know

My eldest was angry this morning at the entire subject of geography because she can't be arsed about rocks.

This made me laugh so much 🤣

@bendmeoverbackwards
Anyone have a teen who prefers one parent to another? Dd3 (14.5) just can’t stand her dad at the moment. It’s very hard for him. He’s a kind loving father and she’s so nasty to him. I’m hoping it’s just a phase.

Yes, my just turned 19yo DD has been doing this for the last couple of years or so. Only it's me she targets, not her dad. I'm hoping it's a phase too🥴

Years ago one Christmas I bought my then DP (now DH!) a mini break for the two of us. The two DCs (then aged 12 and 13) called me “selfish and horrible” for not including them in the arrangements. Their actions reduced me to tears and for me the day was ruined. DP told them he was going to come up with a suitable punishment and they’d have to wait until NEXT Christmas to find out what it was.
The following Christmas morning he sat me at a dining table opposite the back doors, handed the kids hi-vis waterproofs and told them they were going to wash and valet my car to my exact satisfaction while I ate smoked salmon and drank prosecco.
The neighbours came out to watch…the sight of these two grumpy teens washing a car on Xmas morning was quite a sight. Of course they had to do several bits of it again before the car met my exacting standards of inspection.
They are now lovely human beings and have never forgotten that punishment!!!

Sounds like the reason lots of these teens are so horrible is because they have so much given to them/done for them. We never had ANY of the treats these privileged kids get and we were always so grateful for small things. Perhaps having a little less might help breed a bit more gratitude when they are given something?

My 14 year old is mortified that I bought his school photo this year (his Nana asked me to buy it for her I think they are overpriced) because apparently having to go and collect it from student services was the most embarrassing thing ever and his friends will think his parents give a shit about him and that is really not cool.

@MrsBa

My son once asked if he could see my Cellulite (for Biology) Explained I hadn't got any. He went storming off, slamming the door shouting if he failed his exams it would be my fault!

This is the best one!!

Because I bought myself an iPhone 13 mini. 😆

I had the audacity to say hello to one of his friends that I hadn't met before. The shame.

My actual existence, when we were shopping in town, was pretty fucking awful apparently.

@AlbertBridge

Because I bought myself an iPhone 13 mini. 😆

My 17yo was over the moon that I had bought myself the new iPhone!

(Only because it meant she could have my iPhone X rather than the 6 she was currently using that is beyond workable due to numerous dropping incidents)

Mine is cross with her dad because he didnt notice she had dyed her hair pink and purple.

However she is also cross because I didnt react the way she was expecting to the hair. Apparently saying it looks good but please remember blue based dyes can be a bugger to wash out isnt the right reaction. She complained to my mum who is sorting out a load of photos of me at about the same age with many different dye jobs. Also my hair is currently Fire Hydrant red so I cant moan about hers. hers is a very sublte colour where as mine screams RED!!!!

Does anyone else's teems do this? Please tell me it's not just mine ( when they were teens that is they are finally past that now. Just!!!) But they wait I'm sure intentionally til u are in bathroom or in bed or on phone and start yelling mum mum mum til I finally hear and rush out to find out what the commotion is ask what's going on only to be met with nothing it doesn't matter now u took too long or its OK now I've found or such like??? Jeez kid I thought the place was on fire 🔥 🙈🙈

@Cameleongirl

For homework, DS (13) needed to read a book and explain the themes. He decided the best approach was to get Mum to read the book and tell him the themes, which he'd then write down .

Apparently I wasn't being supportive enough when I suggested he should also read the book and actually do the work.

This is a child who's doing well in English and doesn't really need help, he just wanted to play online instead.

My DD suggests you should not read the book, make up the themes and leave him to look silly in class. 😄 That'd show him what 'unsupportive' is!

My 16 year old and eleventeen year old spent most of tonight’s lovingly home cooked dinner moaning that I make them eat too many vegetables. Well yes.

1. They’re good for you
2. We’re vegetarian

DS1 tried to tell me that too many vegetables are bad for you. Yes I’m sure they are but certainly not in the quantities he eats them and actually the crap he shovels in when he’s with his mates is probably a bit more of a concern…..

My 9 year old just eats everything and tells me I’m pretty. I think I’ll cry when he starts with the aggro

Dd was annoyed on Sunday because I was ill and spent all day in bed her dad is disabled and was having a bad day so was also in bed, I asked if she could make her and her brother some tea, she's doing gcse cookery and loves cooking I dragged myself out of bed at 7pm when I could hear her shouting she had been slaving over tea all day (she bunged a pizza in the oven and decided to make a cake) and hadn't sat down all day and it was all my fault.

@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 🙄

So your children keep telling you that they would rather stay at home and see friends than go on expensive planet-killing holidays; you don't listen to them, and you think they are being unreasonable?!

DD was too tired to press share on the google drive her summer homework was in and type in one tutors email address. Created Merry hell which took up far more energy if you ask me