what's the most teenager-y thing your teen has said recently?

[Anonymous]

Why do you love ruining my life?!

Yelled with tears, because the wifi automatically cut out at a certain time at night.

[Anonymous]

Our youngest is 15 and SUPER hormonal, but grew being the A+ kid in the house, and now has been struggling with online school.

Our eldest has always put school on the back burner, but is smart. He's doing really well in college (from home because of covid).

Him talking to me and his dad: "I think I'll do really well this semester, I've already completed the first ten assignments in my math class."

15 year old daughter: "What the hell John? Are you getting good grades just to make me look bad? You have never cared before, but now that you see me struggling you decide to do homework?!!!"

Followed by a dramatic stomp up to her room. It was so funny and dramatic that we weren't even sure that she was serious. Then she hollered down for us to stop laughing.

She isn't wrong. He hasn't cared much before, but it certainly isn't to spite her. Her grades aren't even bad, but now she has to try a bit more than she did in elementary and middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our youngest is 15 and SUPER hormonal, but grew being the A+ kid in the house, and now has been struggling with online school.

Our eldest has always put school on the back burner, but is smart. He's doing really well in college (from home because of covid).

Him talking to me and his dad: "I think I'll do really well this semester, I've already completed the first ten assignments in my math class."

15 year old daughter: "What the hell John? Are you getting good grades just to make me look bad? You have never cared before, but now that you see me struggling you decide to do homework?!!!"

Followed by a dramatic stomp up to her room. It was so funny and dramatic that we weren't even sure that she was serious. Then she hollered down for us to stop laughing.

She isn't wrong. He hasn't cared much before, but it certainly isn't to spite her. Her grades aren't even bad, but now she has to try a bit more than she did in elementary and middle school.

I LOLed at this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But my clothes are much easier to get to when they’re on the floor.

—15 year old.

Teen: Why do I need to fold my laundry, I just stick them in the drawers.
Me: So you don't look like a wrinkled slop.
Teen: I'm ok with that.

[Anonymous]

Just the classic overly dramatic

Ohhhh my goddddddd I know it’s time for English class. GEEEZZZZZZZ. I’m logging ON NOW. Why do you always remind ME I only forgot like THREE TIMES last week. Ughhhhhhh. It’s soooo boring we don’t DO ANYTHING anyways.



PP- don’t cave and throw that milk away!!!!

[Anonymous]

14 year old DS -“no body likes you” . After being told his gaming time was up.

[Anonymous]

Tonight after being told not to talk back: "What, we can't ever disagree with you? We can't ever stand up for ourselves?!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 15 y/old son who as grown 6 inches and gained 20 lbs in the last year flexed his 💪. I said “puberty does amazing things.” He replied “ My ass, this iis from lifting.” Apparently, he wanted his hard work acknowledged.

That is awesome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tonight after being told not to talk back: "What, we can't ever disagree with you? We can't ever stand up for ourselves?!"

S/he’s right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are moving into a brand new house. Has a nice finished basement, just for her! Ordered new furniture, just as she wanted. I drove by the house, cause I like doing that, with her in the car.
"I could never live in such a boring house, nor would I ever want such a house. I will live in a school bus that is all hippy style and travel around the world in it. I could never aspire to something so boring as the house you choose."

That's when you stop the car and tell her to get out of your boring car and walk her entitled ass home after you take her boring phone

What? You mean the kid isn’t entitled to her own opinion?

Sure, but if she really did express it this way, then "walking her entitled ass home" is not really that over the top. If OP's characterization is an exaggeration for effect, that's one thing, but PP is right that it comes off as totally entitled and rude.

Personally, I'd have told her she could buy her hippie bus tomorrow if she didn't want to live in my boring basement, but that she needed to be kind and respectful as long as she was living under my roof.

You need therapy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are moving into a brand new house. Has a nice finished basement, just for her! Ordered new furniture, just as she wanted. I drove by the house, cause I like doing that, with her in the car.
"I could never live in such a boring house, nor would I ever want such a house. I will live in a school bus that is all hippy style and travel around the world in it. I could never aspire to something so boring as the house you choose."

That's when you stop the car and tell her to get out of your boring car and walk her entitled ass home after you take her boring phone

What? You mean the kid isn’t entitled to her own opinion?

Sure, but if she really did express it this way, then "walking her entitled ass home" is not really that over the top. If OP's characterization is an exaggeration for effect, that's one thing, but PP is right that it comes off as totally entitled and rude.

Personally, I'd have told her she could buy her hippie bus tomorrow if she didn't want to live in my boring basement, but that she needed to be kind and respectful as long as she was living under my roof.

You need therapy.

+1

[Anonymous]

"I know."

Said in response to 99% of whatever a parent says to her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 14 year old just explained to me how it's actually a GOOD thing that she kicks ice cubes under the fridge when they miss her cup from the dispenser because "then the floor gets clean and we never sweep or clean down there anyway, right?"

My 6yo told me the same thing... maybe he's already prepping for teenager ness...

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Anonymous wrote:DD: did you always want to spend your life with Dad and have no friends?

Me: I love your father and he’s my best friend

DD: it just seems so boring. I’m never getting married.

Lol!

I love all these comments. They remind me of ladybird.

Ladybird Johnson? Because after watching that CNN special about her life, I just can't get over how much I really like her.

She was awesome! My grandmother was a close friend of hers, they used to take Spanish lessons together!

[Anonymous]

She offered to help me clean off the snow covered car...by boiling water.