Support thread for parents of multiple teenagers.

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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.

He showers

Then she'll have him.

I'll send her over to you Maryz

Daughters have their collective hands in their arses this evening. I am hiding/cooking dinner and trying to ignore the constant squawking coming from the living room.

we made DD help with the redecoration of downstairs room as her new bedroom.....

Have you ever seen the Kevin the teenager washes the car. Thats what it was like for most of the day.

Went out to The Big City yesterday with DS, came back very late indeed after a film.
He's an Aspie, and it is relevant.
Now, I know there's a continuous debate on the feminist threads about how walking with company at night and sticking to well-populated areas won't reduce the chances of you being attacked, but I've always disagreed.
So imagine my surprise when we walked to the station and DS took off like the Pony Express, leaving me to walk along all on my oooowwwnnn. For about a mile.
When I caught up with him, he had the same happy grin on his face as he has as a small child when he'd managed to escape the Maternal Octopus. Because he'd made it to the station and left me behind. He he bloody he.
So, on the train journey home, we talked about the fact that a 6' bloke doesn't leave his companion walking alone down an empty road and run off for a lark, and why. Then I asked him if he'd do that to his many female friends whom he regularly walks home because they don't like to be unaccompanied.
'No, of course not, but you're my mum and I thought you could handle yourself, and I wanted to beat you to the station.'
I talked about what I'd do to him if he tried that stunt again, and about social conventions of being in a group but I won't know if he gets it until next time.
Prat.

Watching what I want on the TV wouldn't impact on DD at all.
She is Borg and plugged into her laptop or iPod or phone or all 3 for all the time that she's not unconscious or in the shower.

Hehe, I made DS watch the rhythmic gymnastics. He tried to spoil it by stating it is not a sport but I ignored him and turned up the volume.

The DDs are off with exH for his summer week with them and I miss them a lot already . There's just me and DS here.

Spent the day yesterday packing and still managed to forget many necessary items. They have called me in dribs and drabs to tell me off. I have had to direct DD4 through the suitcase to find the bra I know I packed among the knickers for her. She still needed reinforcement from DD2 to find it. DD4 also gave out to me for forgetting to pack her hairbrush although I had told her to find it for herself when it wasn't where I expected it to be yesterday -- obv she blew me off and didn't bother. She has only recently started paying any attention to the hairbrushing so clearly I will have to bring my A game to hairbrush location from now on. The older two don't brush theirs as there is no hairbrush invented that would not be swallowed up by the curls and lost forever if they ever tried. DD4 has slightly wavy hair and I can see that the brushing is going to rival the cat's grooming ere long.

DS will be packing to go back to university soon and we are planning a trip to find him another pair of enormous basketball style shoes as last year's are wearing out. What fun lies ahead for me this weekend . I can't wait. We have already had a debate on something he brought up about a welcome back event he will have to go to on rape. He told me that last year the women's groups on campus plastered posters everywhere saying 'we demand a rape free campus' -- DS thought that was well and good as far as it went and agrees everyone has the right not to be raped or to fear rape, and that nobody has the right to rape, but he thinks they should have had posters saying 'we carry mace'. DS generally never starts a conversation unless he has thought out every single nuance of his argument beforehand so in order to continue I will have to give that a bit of thought and ask myself if I want to launch into it when I'm held captive in the car on the shoe hunt.

The thing that stood out from your post was 'car captive' for me.
Oh yes!
Tell him mace is fine, but some nervous females might give a pre-emptive blast and how would he feel to be caught in the blast?

We have had a nice evening We watched the Olympics and then went out into the garden to spot meteors/ISS. There was no arguing or anything for at least 3 hours and no one was in their room plugged into a 'device'

However, DD1 is (apparently) going to cut DS1's hair tomorrow - they'll hear the carry on afterwards in the ISS from bloody space.

Dh has just given ds1 a lift home from the pub ( we live in the middle of nowhere), he hasn't spoken yet do that probably means that he thinks ds has drunk too much. Really need ds to get grades and go to uni, I do not need to be worrying about whether he is going to be ill and to be quite frank he doesn't need to have to be having us watching him! Please let it be OK on Thursday.

Oh apparently he's not too bad ,

oh and if you discreetly try to slip a box of tampons into dd's bag she has a fit.
then u pick up the blood stained clothes from her bedroom floor.

My poor eldest had to sign for a parcel that got delivered whilst I was out yesterday. Apparently it was the most stressful thing that happened to her all day (because all she did the rest of the day was go on tumblr) and ridiculously complicated. Fuck knows how she'll cope with gcse's!

The 4 kids share an iPod touch that used to be dh's - i.e. has never had anything to do with me. I get asked all the time where it is, or where the charger is. Ask your bloody siblings!

dd is "helping" me decorate her room. This is mainly "101 ways to procrastinate and have mum do it". The things she has done are do slap dash that I wish I had done them myself.

We painted today. I shall have to retouch the skirtings and the picture rail, as she has gone over the edges. I shall also have to wash paint off my sink and worktops, as well as a small cupboard in the room, after she finished paintinga nd just left the paintbrushes on the surface (because she was just going to check something, she was coming right back)....

Back to school tomorrow, yeehah!