Teenagers: Just Ranting Today

As if the constant drama, snarky attitude, and endless complaining isn't enough, now it's encrougement of "couples night"

My spouse and I work different schedules, and Thursdays is the only night we have time together..if you know what I mean Sooooo, when our teenager annouced three weeks ago that she was going to be working on Thursday nights we both smiled and silently said "Horraaayyy!". After one fantastic Thursday evening together we were so giddy about the prospect of one night a week without interruptions that we could barely contain ourselves.

Well, that joy was sadly short lived. Last week our teen said she had switched with someone (just this once :roll because that person needed that particular Friday off. But this morning she woke up, gave us her daily dose of "God, my life sucks so bad!" and then proceeded to explain that Thursday nights were terrible at the restaruant and that her boss said she could work Fridays instead!!!

Jeez Louise, do parents of teenagers ever catch a damn break??!!

 

Hate to tell you, but NOPE, we don't ever get a break. When they are in school, they can't wait till summer because school sucks, when they are on break they complain that they are bored and wishes school would start up so they can have something to do, when they don't have a job, they complain they want/need a job so they can earn money and when they have a job they complain about the job, the hours they have to work, how much they are paid, that they don't have any time for their friends, blah, blah blah and of course, things never work out with your schedule. And of course, you just don't understand how they feel and what they are going thru and how hard it is on them. LOL When they become teenagers, it is all about them. Wish I had better new for you, but I don't.

Hey, you could sneak and talk to her manager and tell them that you REALLY REALLY need for your daughter to work Thurs nights. LOL :twisted:

 

Just grease the door knobs,,:mrgreen:

 

LOL Forever, so you know my daughter? I'll add to your very astute and point-on comments that my teen also seems to thinks she has a say in everything and that we should get her way because she has an opinion! I call it lack of respect but she calls it the right to be involved with decisions that affect her! Now doesn't that make you laugh?

 

This is a FANTASTIC idea for parents of toddlers too! :lol:

we have lever handles, what ya got for them?

 

Hmmm sounds about like my kids, except the son now has to answer to a Sgt other than me, but DD is still here and she sometimes thinks that we can't tell her what to do because she can "take care of herself"!

 

Look on the bright side - at least she HAS a job!! and whats wrong with Fri night being date night? :mrgreen: oh, sorry - I see where you said you have diff schedule....oh well.

 

Oh you are SO 110% correct here!!! It is totally about them and how everything sucks. Mine aren't as bad as some of the whiners I've heard come to this house but still, drives me nuts. I have 3 teens in the house. Combine it w/ hormones & it's like living in an ongoing horror show--LOL. One just didn't eat lunch b/c in our house the rule is you eat what is given. He didn't eat breakfast so made him eat breakfast first before lunch. Umm, he's protesting and not eating anything. Thank God b/c that kid eats nonstop from sun up to sun down. I'm liking this protest so far--LOL. He thinks he's hurting me. Nope, you'll just be hungry. Nothing is good enough for teenagers, they appreciate nothing (even coming from an orphanage!!!...urghh), & think they are center of the universe. Don't know about you, but glad I was never a teen--LOL. I'm told after 16yo, it settles down a bit. Can anyone confirm?? I have a 16yo, 14yo and 13yo. I'm waiting for this stage to be over. It's going to be a l-o-n-g summer everyone.

Stephanie--mom to 7

 

Panther,
If you want to motivate her to be gone Thursday nights, just let her know that it was ...ahem..."couples time" and that you and your mate were going to enjoy it to the fullest...without going into details, but raise your eyebrows, when you say "fullest"...and prepare to get her a bucket in which to hurl.

When our older ones got that message, that ol'd Mom and Dad still did it, they made themselves rather scarce.....even to the point of going to the library..how desperate of them was that?

 

Abdulina, I can't say it settles down but it morphs into something else. My 21 yr old STILL thinks she is the center of the universe and that when things go wrong it can't be her fault! She also thinks anyone older is out to get her and they just don't understand....sob sob sob....and of course there's always...."Mom, that's the way things were way back when you were my age but it's different now". ROFL- back when I was her age I still had to respect adults, earn my keep and learn to adapt to the "real world"!

 

and it's not just teenage girls....my 12 year old boys call me at least 4 times a day to tell me how bored they are....it's unbelievable. I am glad to know I am not alone. :banghead:

 

Funny you should say that. She's only 16 so I don't want to get into that with her, but when my oldest lived at home and she was 18 and the youngest was 14, I said to her one night "Hey why don't you and your sister go to the movie tonight" She said "Naw, there nothing good on". Then I suggested that the two go over to one of her friends house, and her reply was that there wasn't anything to do there. Then she says "Hey, maybe we can invite a couple friends over here and hang out. I lowered my head, looked her straight in the eyes and told her that she needed to take her sister and get out of the house for a couple of hours or I was going to be in a very foul mood...and oh btw, call before you you leave to come home. She got this horrified look on her face and said "Eww God, that is sooooo gross!!". Thirty minutes later they were out the door and my wife and I were making out on the couch! :lol:

 

How bout having a set of 17 year old twins in the house, it doesn't get better, it gets crazier, lol. They both have jobs at different places and when hubby is on night shift and the twins are at work it is pure JOY. One thing for sure it keeps things very interesting in the house and when the oldest one is home on leave it is like having three 17 year olds in the house even though he just turned 25, boy oh boy. On the good days wouldn't trade them for anything in the world, gotta love em.

 

Yeah, but on the bad days you'd trade for a lump of coal and an old potato sack...lol

 

No it does not settle down....wait until they turn 18!!! You know the older the kids get the "dumber" you get and you just don't know anything or understand. I hear the same thing about how things are different than they were in the "old days".

Kyle just turned 20 and in the AF and ini Vegas, and you know, I still don't know anything. LOL It is like he has it all figured out...yet when something happens, who does he call, MOM.

Yep, glad I was never that way. LOL To be honest, I was working as a cashier in a small town grocery store when I was 12 years old and continued working all he way thru HS. I bought my own car with my own money, paid my own insurance & repairs, bought my own school clothes, paid for my own school lunches and very seldom asked mom and dad for money. I also managed to keep my school work done and my grades up.

I swore I would never put the "mommy curse" on my kids, but I have!!! :twisted: There are times they have made me so mad that I told them that I hoped their kids were just like them and then they would know what I go thru! To this day, I have never forgiven my mother for "cursing" me. Of course, I can blame a lot of it on the ex and his mom "cursing" him! I know that is where the worse stuff comes from. LOL

 

Consulation, one day the real world will come along and bite them in the butt and looking forward to them having to deal with this kind of stuff with their own kids and us getting to help make those kids ROTTEN TO THE CORE!! 8)

Kids ~ gotta love 'em

 

That was going to be my suggestion.

My 13 year old has a habit of just popping into our room without knocking, so my DH tells my 13 year old some nights...."Don't come in our room tonight, you might, um, interupt something". She hurls, I think it's hillarious....

 

Electric shock

 

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Amen, sista girl!