So easily offended

[Lancslady82]

Any top tips for dealing with times when your older teen is offended by things you say?
We can be having a lovely time and think she’s in a great mood and someone can say something to her and it’s like a switch and she gets offended and goes off into a giant huff.
her dad was saying something really positive to her today connected to future careers but she didn’t like it and stormed off. We tend to leave her to it and then try to talk later but it doesn’t seem to stop it happening.

How horrible to have to be tiptoeing around in case of a teenage tantrum.
If it's random I'm not sure that you can do much about it, sadly, other than to ignore as much as possible. They are probably doing it to get a reaction from you so if they don't get one it might change things.

My daughter will text me saying "mum" and I respond with "what" and she texts back saying "why are you answering like that I only want to ask you something there's no need to be in a mood" I'm like WTF lol and respond with a laughing face and she then realises that I was just simply asking her what lol I remember being a teenager and storming off for absolutely no reason and thinking people were having a go at me lol I think it's just what teenagers do tbh

I feel your pain. My DS1 used to pick arguments with me on a recreational basis I think, usually in the course of a holiday we'd paid for and had been looking forward to. Eventually I just told him that he was free to waste his own time but I wasn't going to react to him any more.

Thanks everyone.
good to hear it’s not just a problem for us.
She is a delightful teen most of the time and doesn’t give us much worry. This is probably the worst issue so I know I need to get a grip and realise it’s a small issue. Doesn’t stop it irritating the hell out of me and make me feel that I need to be careful about what I say which is also really irritating!