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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

btw daughter no1 left age 21,daughter no2 age 19 n son age 19 when they all met oh n got places of there own.

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

Haven't had that one, ILWY - yet!!

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

That was what I used to say when I was a teenager. Good as my word I moved out at 16... then back again, then moved out again, then home again.... did it about 8 times.

Then one day I came back to visit and 'my room' had been redecorated and made into a guest room.

I kinda took the hint then.

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

had that yesterday ILWY, because I had the audacity to say no to my 14 year old son, who thought he was being so clever, by making up a cock and bull story about his friend having a birthday party, and he needed £10 to buy him a pressy, silly billy left his phone at home, and the messages said 'don't think a tenner is gonna be enough if we are gonna get a crate'

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Originally posted by pussycatj:

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

had that yesterday ILWY, because I had the audacity to say no to my 14 year old son, who thought he was being so clever, by making up a cock and bull story about his friend having a birthday party, and he needed £10 to buy him a pressy, silly billy left his phone at home, and the messages said 'don't think a tenner is gonna be enough if we are gonna get a crate'

sorry shouldnt laugh

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:

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Originally posted by pussycatj:

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

had that yesterday ILWY, because I had the audacity to say no to my 14 year old son, who thought he was being so clever, by making up a cock and bull story about his friend having a birthday party, and he needed £10 to buy him a pressy, silly billy left his phone at home, and the messages said 'don't think a tenner is gonna be enough if we are gonna get a crate'

sorry shouldnt laugh

No we shouldn't, but I did.

Bumping this as we can't let those teenagers get the better of us on their thread!!

my teenager said that the reason that she sneaked into town to meet a boy and didnt tell me was because i didnt ask her if that is what she was doing? !!!!!!........ ooh the list of questions she gets asked now is endless

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Originally posted by droopydrawers:
my teenager said that the reason that she sneaked into town to meet a boy and didnt tell me was because i didnt ask her if that is what she was doing? !!!!!!........ ooh the list of questions she gets asked now is endless

Oh well it's my falt my 16 year old is pregnant because i won't let her on facebook!!! (long story why she's not aloud)

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Originally posted by FrankiesChick:

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Originally posted by droopydrawers:
my teenager said that the reason that she sneaked into town to meet a boy and didnt tell me was because i didnt ask her if that is what she was doing? !!!!!!........ ooh the list of questions she gets asked now is endless

Oh well it's my falt my 16 year old is pregnant because i won't let her on facebook!!! (long story why she's not aloud)

Oooh that would make me highly sarcastic... in the face of that accusation.... it would make my tirade of seething sarkiness, crude and probably inappropriate... and would end with... "and so that meant you just fell on his..."

Outrageous accusations from either of my two make my blood boil...

You seem to be handling it really well though chick x

mine spent last night planning their birthdays......eldest is the end of july.......but youngest spongette isn't til october!!!!!....though she insists it's 'good to be organised mum....you always say don't leave it til the last minute...so i'm not'.....

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Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
mine spent last night planning their birthdays......eldest is the end of july.......but youngest spongette isn't til october!!!!!....though she insists it's 'good to be organised mum....you always say don't leave it til the last minute...so i'm not'.....

That's funny - my youngest is 16 in less than 2 weeks.
I keep saying to him "you'll have to decide what you want to do for your bithday" and I get met with a grunt.
This has been going on for about a month now - I know he'll decide about 2 days before - as usual - and I have to sort it all out

Thanks Mazzy

I love my daughter, (14 y.o,) but teens can be very challenging, and SHE is just reaching that challenging stage. She can't make up her mind what she wants to do with her life, and we have spent a fortune on her various fads and lots of time running her around... It's getting annoying now.

And also, she is at that Kevin and Perry stage right now, where she treats me and her dad like third rate citizens; using us as escorts and a free taxi for her and her mates, and tells us nothing and glares at us when we have the temerity to ask anything.

Yet she treats her mates' mums like her best mates and snaps my head off if I critisize them. Like one of her mate's mums is ALWAYS late dropping her daughter off; I waited with my daughter for 40 minutes last weekend because her mate didn't get to the shopping centre til 12.40am instead of midday - (I didn't want to leave my daughter alone you see,) and when I said 'I am sick of Shellie's mom always being late! Not five or ten minutes, but sometimes up to an HOUR late!' she said 'well she HAS got things to do you know!' HELLO, so have I!!!)

Teenagers! GRRR!

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

Yes, I had that one when my daughter was 15. I offered to buy her a new suitcase for her 16th birthday, but she wasn't amused

Of course, it is now MY fault that she hasn't done enough revision for her GCSEs because I have dared to have Jeremy Kyle on for the last two afternoons whilst I've been working

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Originally posted by Growlybear:

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Originally posted by ilovewillyoung:
When im 16 im going to get a flat n u wont see me again

Yes, I had that one when my daughter was 15. I offered to

Of course, it is now MY fault that she hasn't done enough revision for her GCSEs because I have dared to have Jeremy Kyle on for the last two afternoons whilst I've been working

LOL, my daughter is coming to the end of year 9, and her school have chosen to do SATS, even though it's not mandatory or 'the law,' and the school said if they get below 40% in maths they will go down a group for year 10.

She is in the top group, and was horrified at the thought of being 'demoted' and leaving her mates as she struggles a bit with maths. She couldn't understand half of her revision the other week, and was crying and begging us to help. Thing is, she rarely listens in class, and hardly ever does her homework or revises, and it was coming back to bite her on the bum!

When it comes to maths, I am a total dunce anyway, so was no help, and neither was her dad (my hubby,) so we had to enlist my neighbour to help her, who left school only 4 or 5 years ago. She got 41%! And will stay in Group one. By the skin of her lazy teenage brat teeth!

I'm so glad my mum is computer illiterate

But can I give a plea to you all...in however many years time when your children drive home especially to do you a massive favour, and they are in the middle of really important exams which are stressing them out so much that staying in the library all night is more appealing than sleeping...DON'T as soon as they walk through the door start picking faults with them, how bad/tired/ill they look, how that top doesn't go with those shoes, how their hair could do with a cut, and why didnt they bother with makeup...it may make them cry they have come home to help you out, thats time taken out of the hectic revision schedule, and they want cuddles and to be told everything will be ok.

Oh and after they have burst into tears, telling them that you were joking and that they look beautiful as always and they will definately pass because they are the cleverest person you know will not work the damage has been done

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Originally posted by Trix-ster:
I'm so glad my mum is computer illiterate

But can I give a plea to you all...in however many years time when your children drive home especially to do you a massive favour, and they are in the middle of really important exams which are stressing them out so much that staying in the library all night is more appealing than sleeping...DON'T as soon as they walk through the door start picking faults with them, how bad/tired/ill they look, how that top doesn't go with those shoes, how their hair could do with a cut, and why didnt they bother with makeup...it may make them cry they have come home to help you out, thats time taken out of the hectic revision schedule, and they want cuddles and to be told everything will be ok.

Oh and after they have burst into tears, telling them that you were joking and that they look beautiful as always and they will definately pass because they are the cleverest person you know will not work the damage has been done

Not being funny Trix-ster but we 'parents of teenagers,' were teenagers once you know, so we know exactly what it's like to be one. We do everything possible to appease our daughter, and she is quite ungrateful at times and takes us for granted. But we are still always there for her because we love her and always support her, and spend a fortune on her, on her hobbies and fads and so on...

We KNOW what the stresses of exam times are like and so on. Wait til you have teenagers; you will know how hard it is, and how you can't do right for doing wrong with them. Have some thought for the parents who often work as well, and who often have other siblings and elderly relatives to look after.

Teenagers aren't the only ones with stresses in life.

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Originally posted by Trix-ster:
I'm so glad my mum is computer illiterate

But can I give a plea to you all...in however many years time when your children drive home especially to do you a massive favour, and they are in the middle of really important exams which are stressing them out so much that staying in the library all night is more appealing than sleeping...DON'T as soon as they walk through the door start picking faults with them, how bad/tired/ill they look, how that top doesn't go with those shoes, how their hair could do with a cut, and why didnt they bother with makeup...it may make them cry they have come home to help you out, thats time taken out of the hectic revision schedule, and they want cuddles and to be told everything will be ok.

Oh and after they have burst into tears, telling them that you were joking and that they look beautiful as always and they will definately pass because they are the cleverest person you know will not work the damage has been done

Trix hon... this should go in a different thread "Parents... love em, but sometimes they don't half...."

I have fab parents... but tact and saying the right thing at the right time is not one of my mothers strengths....

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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:

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Originally posted by Trix-ster:
I'm so glad my mum is computer illiterate

But can I give a plea to you all...in however many years time when your children drive home especially to do you a massive favour, and they are in the middle of really important exams which are stressing them out so much that staying in the library all night is more appealing than sleeping...DON'T as soon as they walk through the door start picking faults with them, how bad/tired/ill they look, how that top doesn't go with those shoes, how their hair could do with a cut, and why didnt they bother with makeup...it may make them cry they have come home to help you out, thats time taken out of the hectic revision schedule, and they want cuddles and to be told everything will be ok.

Oh and after they have burst into tears, telling them that you were joking and that they look beautiful as always and they will definately pass because they are the cleverest person you know will not work the damage has been done

Not being funny Trix-ster but we 'parents of teenagers,' were teenagers once you know, so we know exactly what it's like to be one. We do everything possible to appease our daughter, and she is quite ungrateful at times and takes us for granted. But we are still always there for her because we love her and always support her, and spend a fortune on her, on her hobbies and fads and so on...

We KNOW what the stresses of exam times are like and so on. Wait til you have teenagers; you will know how hard it is, and how you can't do right for doing wrong with them. Have some thought for the parents who often work as well, and who often have other siblings and elderly relatives to look after.

Teenagers aren't the only ones with stresses in life.

Not being funny to you either but I have never been ungrateful to my parents for anything they have given me. They paid my rent for me in first year, I worked hard all summer and paid them back.
Yes my mum works but do does my dad ( a lot longer hours too) and its only ever her that snaps my head off whenever I go home. I got a job this year so that I have never had to ask anything of them. And at the drop of a hat I drive home to help them out. I have an older brother who still lives at home and does none of this for them but it is me that gets yelled at/ moaned at/ bitched at while he gets treated like the sun shines out of his arse. And I was the one who helped her look after my grandad until he passed away. I know what you are saying and I wouldn't mind if it was one or two comments but to spend the entire day making them is not really helpful. I ask for a bit of tact thats all.

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Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:

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Originally posted by Trix-ster:
I'm so glad my mum is computer illiterate

But can I give a plea to you all...in however many years time when your children drive home especially to do you a massive favour, and they are in the middle of really important exams which are stressing them out so much that staying in the library all night is more appealing than sleeping...DON'T as soon as they walk through the door start picking faults with them, how bad/tired/ill they look, how that top doesn't go with those shoes, how their hair could do with a cut, and why didnt they bother with makeup...it may make them cry they have come home to help you out, thats time taken out of the hectic revision schedule, and they want cuddles and to be told everything will be ok.

Oh and after they have burst into tears, telling them that you were joking and that they look beautiful as always and they will definately pass because they are the cleverest person you know will not work the damage has been done

Trix hon... this should go in a different thread "Parents... love em, but sometimes they don't half...."

I have fab parents... but tact and saying the right thing at the right time is not one of my mothers strengths....

Thats exactly what I mean ditty

Trix .... here's the hug and the 'everything will be alright'

Let them sort out home ... you get selfish and sort out your revision. This is the rest of your life you are working for now, concentrate on that.

You'll be free of exams soon - and can help them then.

I have spoken

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Originally posted by Rexi:
Trix .... here's the hug and the 'everything will be alright'

Let them sort out home ... you get selfish and sort out your revision. This is the rest of your life you are working for now, concentrate on that.

You'll be free of exams soon - and can help them then.

I have spoken

This is why Rexi is my second mum
Does this mean I can put my phone on silent and ignore them for the next 3 weeks? Although I did have a very interesting conversation with my dad last night..."hey dad is mum there?" "Yep" "Well can i speak to her then?" "Yep" "Thanks..." "Ill get her for you" "Thanks daddy" "Bear with me" "Ok" "Shes here now" "Thanks dad...give her the phone" I think he was drunk...or thought that me laughing at flatmate singing in my other ear was me crying

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Originally posted by Trix-ster:

This is why Rexi is my second mum
Does this mean I can put my phone on silent and ignore them for the next 3 weeks? Although I did have a very interesting conversation with my dad last night..."hey dad is mum there?" "Yep" "Well can i speak to her then?" "Yep" "Thanks..." "Ill get her for you" "Thanks daddy" "Bear with me" "Ok" "Shes here now" "Thanks dad...give her the phone" I think he was drunk...or thought that me laughing at flatmate singing in my other ear was me crying

Gawd knows But don't give it a second thought now

Good idea about the phone - tell them that you and your chums have pledged to concentrate on revision for the next three weeks. That means no telly, loud music, phones etc so that none of you are distracted. You are having Sunday evenings off, so you'll phone them then, but otherwise your phone will be off.

Or ... tell them you dropped it in the bath and it's in the airing cupboard drying out for a week

You'll think of something ...

Trix - I feel for you I really do.

Though we all moan on this thread about our various pimpled offspring, I think I speak for all of us in saying it is a rather light-hearted commiseration thread.
I love my children to death - they are the most important thing in the world to me and although they sometimes accuse me of not caring etc in their teenage way, I'm sure they are very aware of how much they mean to me.
I'm sure your parents feel exactly the same about you, but parenthood is the most difficult job, and one which we are all still learning about each day. Just because they are maybe not showing it right now doesn't mean they think any less of you.

Mom, we watched a thing about binge drinking the other day. But you do that, don't you?

Me: No

But I've seen you drink a whole bottle of wine!

Me: Sometimes your dad has some, and it's not really that much for people of our age, shug (whilst thanking Darth that her observational and/or counting skills ain't all they should be)

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Originally posted by The Secretary:
Mom, we watched a thing about binge drinking the other day. But you do that, don't you?

Me: No

But I've seen you drink a whole bottle of wine!

Me: Sometimes your dad has some, and it's not really that much for people of our age, shug (whilst thanking Darth that her observational and/or counting skills ain't all they should be)

Haha!!Yes,I've had that.
I've also had
'Please dont get drunk..AGAIN!'with that disappointed look, and
'please dont flirt with my teachers!'

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Originally posted by Mazzystar:
Haha!!Yes,I've had that.
I've also had
'Please dont get drunk..AGAIN!'with that disappointed look, and
'please dont flirt with my teachers!'

I get, "Please could you ASK before borrowing my clothes" with lots of --->

The defendant would like to point out that she only borrows her daughter's clothes when her own go missing only to turn up months later when retreived from under said daughter's bed.

Sounds familiar.

Either that or the last pair of tights you KNOW you had is discovered when changing daughters bed(tho I dont do that now...they can wallow in their own filth!)

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Originally posted by Mazzystar:
Sounds familiar.

Either that or the last pair of tights you KNOW you had is discovered when changing daughters bed(tho I dont do that now...they can wallow in their own filth!)

I'd have to have Kim & Aggy in after a week if I tried that

My son borrowed the car yesterday to meet up with mates and go to a gig. I told him he could borrow it but it needed petrol. He said he'd get it on the way home, as he didn't want to go out stinking of petrol.

OH and I get into the car this morning, pull out of the drive, and yes - you've guessed it, the fuel light comes on.