Aaagh ungrateful teens!!

[Mrscaindingle]

Am sitting in Leicester Square nursing a glass of wine having had an argument with DS 16. Him having flounced off in Camden market as I had the audacity to bring him to London for his 16th birthday to see Adele. He has scorned every suggestion I have made for things to but come up with no suggestions whatsoever. I bit my tongue for so long but when he said Camden market was crap and there was nothing to buy I could no longer pretend we were having a good time.
Sigh! I think me and him are done with holidays til he can stop behaving like a brat

What would you like to do in London today, OP?

I suggest you plan your day, announce it, say he's welcome to join or not, and then please yourself.

At 16, if he has a travel card and a charged mobile, he should be able to navigate central London himself - unless he's usually feckless and irresponsible I'd leave him to it for a morning at least.

My teens loved the London Dungeons. Hope you get some smiles today!

Get up this morning, hand him £20, and say "have a lovely day with whatever you decide to do, I'm off!" and go and do something nice by yourself!

I have debated selling the tickets for a massively inflated price but at this late stage think it would be too hard and I think Adele has made it deliberately hard to stop touts doing just that.

Would like to try and salvage the day if I can but like Fenellas idea of handing him £20 and telling him to have a lovely time

I do get that he'd rather go to gigs with friends but it wasn't possible given he's only 16 and wouldn't be able to come down to stay in London
by himself. Sigh! Well lesson learned for DS2.

And user the taking your DD to Disney to make you look good made me lol. It's so reminiscent of Parenting a toddler again with the extreme unreasonableness.

I do get that he'd rather go to gigs with friends but it wasn't possible given he's only 16 and wouldn't be able to come down to stay in London by himself. Sigh! Well lesson learned for DS2.

Actually, he could have done. YHA will take 16-year-olds as long as there are at least two of them (him and mate/GF) and - for more money though - Premier Inn.