What have you done to ruin your teenager's summer so far?

[NotDarkGothicMama]

I have:

• Woken DS up "too fast" to unload the dishwasher when I got home from work at 7pm.
• Locked down DD's phone after 3 hours of asking her to put away the vast array of dirty crockery, nail art supplies and dirty socks decorating the sofa.
• Booked a holiday in accommodation without a swimming pool.
• Arranged to take DS and DD on a work trip abroad with me.
• Refused to exclude DD from said work trip at DS's request.

How have you ruined your teenager's summer?

My 14 year old has already confessed to things he did when he was 11. I think because he knows it's safe to tell me.

Just remind them that somewhere in the animal world, parents eat their young 😉

Gulp. Least they don't put their oldies in a home !

Sorry, I’ve been busy. I’ve tried that but that would involve her doing something. It would work for the younger sibling but not the older one.

Forced YDS 14 to watch a vlog of our luxury accommodation in Florida in October. Such a hard life they lead

I also had to threaten to with old their pocket money unless they went and got their hair cut. It took them an hour to get up then they called to say there was a spiser in the shower so they couldnt turn it off. I actually had to leave work to come and turn it off 🙄🙄🙄

I was also expected to do housework and I even cooked family meals. My boys will do things but it takes souch effort to micromanage them into doing it it's almost not worth the hassle!!

DS has discovered there's a Slim Chickens at the airport. Our holiday is saved 🙄

Most recently I have taken them on holiday. This is a huge imposition because it involves packing and being away from their friends.

DD12 has told me repeatedly how much she hates me and everything I do is annoying.

The worst bit about being on holiday is that I thought they might actually want to take advantage of all the cool activities at Eurocamp.
Nope. She’d rather be on screens all day and group activities are tantamount to child abuse apparently.

@Spritesobright i do remember when I was 13-15 that being away from friends was so difficult and stressful. Even more so in the 90s with no devices or ways of keeping in touch. I could cry at the number of holidays I spent moping about, missing my pals and tv programmes - these days I’d love a fully-paid-for week in Greece or Portugal with no responsibilities. Teens don’t know they’re born, and never have.

Haha, my 11 year old asked me if we were ‘bankrupt’ because I said no to a £125 school bag…

Refused to let my darling twin girls 17 go on holiday with their friend as they’d spent £1k of grandfather’s driving lessons money on sweets, Ubers and party booze. It’s my fault that the money “was just sat there’s waiting to be spent”.

DD 17 is “absolutely sick to death” of me walking into the lounge whilst she is watching TV.

I went to work at 8am and received this text:-

Are you trying to kill me?
left the house with no doors open.
it was ridiculously hot downstairs

This was 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Should I leave the back doors wide open all day for anyone to walk in while she’s asleep upstairs? 🤣

My DD’s male friend is “traumatised” by my appearing at the top of my stairs and asking him to be quiet at 1 am when he was singing. I had the nerve to go to the toilet and he may have seen my naked feet and calves as I opened the toilet door. He had to be reassured by my DD that I wasn’t “streaking” on purpose to upset him as not all parents have en-suites.
I was genuinely concerned that I had flashed him as was naked so had to get my DP to stand at the bottom of the stairs and check from every angle and yes, he had to see the lower legs of a 56 year old woman that probably weren’t recently waxed or shaved!

Not told 17yo that we will be using public transport to get to the airport next week. The car ride to the airport is apparently the best bit of a holiday for him (who knew?) and I should therefore be happy to pay £200ish to park there even though we can be there in around 90 mins by uber, tram and bus to catch an afternoon flight. Never happened before as can never normally get flights I want from our local airport. Ds would have been fine with this had I given him plenty of notice but to spring something of this magnitude on him a mere week before it happens is totally unacceptable.

@pinotnow I made that mistake when I took DS on a post-GCSE AI holiday from the local airport. If he'd realised I was going to make him take the bus (£3 each), he would have declined the trip. Or at least saved his pocket money for an Uber. Poor lamb "doesn't do busses".

Reminded her that she needs to hol her driving theory.
suggested that she applies for a job.
tried to communicate regarding a meal out. By WhatsApp. On the phone she is glued to.

WTAF

Broke my ankle on holiday and then used one of the wheelchairs provided by a museum to get around said museum. Because I couldn't walk and the alternative was sitting in the car for four hours in 34 degrees while everyone else went round the museum. According to the 15 year old my use of a wheelchair was "obnoxious".

True. I do get it. I’m boring and embarrassing.

If only she could afford to go off with her friends for a week and I could do my own holiday that didn’t involve waiting on teens all week.

Problem solved!

I made DS go on holiday with us. Apparently he'd prefer to go and stay with my parents for all future family holidays (after next year's holiday to Thailand, of course). We're currently mid-holiday. DD is loving swimming in the "nasty, dirty" lake but sharing a bedroom with DS is stretching her patience.

Tesco sent us multigrain crackers instead of cream crackers which obviously was my fault.

Got him an interview with a local business

These are really making me laugh

Our perpetual battle is that I say no playstation if you are not dressed snd have not yet left the house. 14 year old says it is genuinely insane to expect him to have fresh air daily.

Making me feel so much better. Two teens. Surface at lunch. They manage like one domestic job a day then have to recover. Or one email to college and they need a lie down.