Support thread for parents of multiple teenagers.

[alistron1]

I have 3 teenagers, they are 13 (boy) 14.5 (girl) and 15.5 (girl) I shall mostly be talking about:

Food - how much do they sodding eat?

The fact that they are sullen introverted beasts whenever you want to go somewhere or do something - but as SOON as you sit down to watch something that YOU would like to see on YOUR tv they rock up and witter at you nonstop about various fascinating topics ( "Have you heard about X who's got this amazing youtube channel, it's hilarious..." "You know my friends neighbours aunts cousins daughter, well she....." "I made this awesome axe on minecraft....")

The constant sneering derision about my life/clothes/interests but if my stuff isn't nailed down it gets 'borrowed'.

The many and varied prima donna moments over the most trivial of things " Where are the black tights, I HATE you, you're controlling and you've got me under house arrest..."

Their pits aka bedrooms aka health hazards

The fact that if I need a charger for something or my headphones they have been appropriated

And finally, that unlike toddlers they are in your face until nearly bloody midnight!!

And with 3 of them there is a non stop caravan of hormones, drama, requests for cash, hormones, tantrums, hormones.

I think that's about it for now.

you have likes. We have Like and literally.

OMG I am like literally PMSL here. Im like totally and literally down with the kids and like literally understanding their language.

Why dont you buy proper food is a constant complaint in this house.

What they mean is Why don't you buy pot noodles and have cans of Coke on tap (large bottles arn't good enough)

I have 4 aged 15,18,19 and 20 (and most definitely still teenage!)

I have 4 forks. left. Four fricking forks!!! I caught DS1 (19) sneaking out on thursday with a pot noodle, half a loaf od bread and fork and threatened him with near death if he didn't return it. It didn't return.

However he did come back to borrow £150 as he was off to Global Gathering!! (he gets paid on tuesday so I will have that back !)

Towels.. oh GOD the damp towels. I've tried everything.. giving them named towels, hiding towels... I scraped 10 off the landing banister..all heaped and damp.. they all denied all knowledge...

'mum can I have a lift to.....' ad nauseum..

BUT I do love them:)

I've taken to hiding food from the weekly shop, to bring out after a few days when they have scoffed everything in the cupboards. DH & I had friends around unexpectedly last night. I thought ' no problem, I know I have some crisps, nibbles, olives & breadsticks hiding at the back of the broom cupboard' well the sodding teenagers got there first! I had nothing to go with our drinkies. I was beyond why do they think they have a right to everything in the house.
Why can't they still flush the loo?
Why can't they put anything away? Ever?
Why is there my make up in her room?
Why does he always want cash? My hard earned cash, when he could get a Saturday job?
Why am I more exhausted now than when they were babies?
Why do I drink so much wine
3 teens, one little one....pass me the bottle.

Mine are very good about asking before consuming something that's not the usual fare.

Ah, thank goodness there are others out there . I have three of the fuckers - DD1 who's 18, DD2 (17) and DS (16). Then I stupidly did it again and have DD3 who is 3½.

Why do all my mugs, plates and glasses disappear in seconds when I, yes I, have emptied the dishwasher?
Where is all my expensive make up?
Why are my clothes missing?
Why do I have to do a MASSIVE food shop every other hour?

Even my car is not safe sometimes now that both the girl ones are driving and they are not happy about having to share a car.

Today DD2 and DD3 (yes, the ones who are 14 years apart in age) were fighting. I thought those days of sister fights were over. Appears not.

medusa does your 20 yr old still act like a teenager ? mine is 19 and I really thought it would be all over by now sigh she is just a sullen and neurotic as she was at 14 when does it STOP

I've just had to, literally, go out to the supermarket for the zillionth time since the school hols began!!!! There was no food in the house, nothing, it had all been inhaled and the poor wee bairns were starving ;) Obviously the choice of 2 types of cereal, crumpets, bread and cheese doesn't count as food.., silly me.

Daughter 1 has asked for an advance on her pocket money, I've explained to her that this means NO MORE POCKEY MONEY until the end of August. Not sure if she understands this!!

DD2 is going to make cookies and cakes today they have their uses i spose but they will be inhaled eaten by tomorrow

Well, DD and her mates got thrown out of a party last night due to someone vomiting and someone else having sex in the parents bedroom.(was not DD, thank fuck for a change ).

Cue 5 teenage half-pissed girls deciding to stay AT MY HOUSE at 1am. I woke up with the noise at 1:40pm, saw DS (16) draped around one of the girls and chucked a mental, they went to bed very quickly and quietly after that . DH and I have to get up for work early. I was livid.

Cue extreme e-mail apologies all day from DD. Still, the house was spotless when I got home from work and there was a cup of tea waiting for me.....

How long can I milk this for do you think?

I'm down to one Teen and one 3 year old now DS is off to Majorca with a friend and his family for ten days. DD1 is staying with her boyfriend and DD2, while here, is working noon till midnight every day for the next two weeks in St. James's Park for one of the Olympic corp entertainment dudes.

Result: peaceful house and food in my fridge

ooh katie....can you stay cross till friday? She might do the ironing! :D

I have also thrown tantrums about missing foodstuffs that I was looking forward to So they tend to double check before scoffing anything fancy.

Although one of my better ploys was to go onto my fb page, tagging ds1 and remark about how the house had been burgled and they had stolen my family sized bag of minstrels. Lots of friends spotted it and MIRACULOUSLY when he arrived home he had found them

:D :D

Just boys here so no hissy fits as such. Dh had one this morning however when he tripped over the pile of trainers piled around the bottom of the stairs at 6 when he wasn't quite awake, whoops!

With the second week of the hols underway I have already baked double the cakes I usually do and Asda have run out of Tiger/Giraffe bread, it's all about who has the last cake/biscuit/cornetto/rasher of bacon at the moment. One good thing is that ds1 is taking a morning jog around the block to stay fit and taking ds3 with him but I can't get ds2 out of his crypt to join them for love nor money.

Oldest teen is out at a sleepover/going to 'that London' Her sister who has moaned NON STOP about wanting her own room has got youngest teen and our 8 year old camped out in her room cos she is 'scared' wtf??

Cupboards are empty again. Washing pile critical, nerves frayed, attempt at giving up wine/fags failed.

This thread is hilarious! How wonderful to know that it's not just me... I don't suppose I will be popular with mine when I get back home from work, after having left a post-it note downstairs:

Want internet access today?
a) clean up the front room;
b) empty/refill the dishwasher;
c) walk the dogs.

DD is getting driving lessons for her BDay. Just applied for her provisional licence, fifty feckin quid! Now it's not that we can't afford it, but still, FIFTY QUID and it's not even gold plated!

Just be grateful you don't live in France, Katie, here it costs minimum 1500 euros to learn to drive. Signing up to rip-off driving school is obligatory and 20 lessons min before even thinking about taking the test.

I am still waiting for DD2 to repay me for a bag she absolutely had to have to go with hundred other bags in her wardrobe since April.

1500 euros?

If we lived in France she'd be riding her bike till she's 50. We've budgeted for lessons and insurance (she has a car) and I know how expensive that is, just was unprepared for the cost of the provisional.

And we get to do it all again next year when DS is 17............

It makes me spit - it's such a rip-off. I learnt with my Dad and only had 2 proper lessons, so it cost me next to nothing as I keep reminding DD again and again and again
But she has got a summer job on a local campsite cleaning out shitty toilets, bless her

fifty quid a lesson no way !! dd lessons were 25 a week fifty quid

aw feck it. I am an embarrassment apparently. My crime? I've asked DD to accompany me and her brothers tomorrow to a variety of stores to purchase school uniform and supplies - this is so I can get it all done while we have money in the bank, and before we go on various holidays. It also means that I can sigh a great sigh of relief and have it all done and dusted.

But apparently, it is a social kiss of death to be seen out with your family (SHOCK! HORROR!) and we are just an embarrassment and I should just give her the money to go and get herself the stuff she needs. Yeah, right.

So Ive told her she comes with me, or she goes by herself and spends her own money. Im sick of the drama queen moments from my hideously entitled child.