Teenagers

Two kids one of each sex both had their moments as teenagers but I miss them both now they've left home.
 
My daughter is 17 and if anything is getting worse! She's just stormed off to her room in a huff actually, lol. Everyday this week she's gone straight to her boyfriends house after work/college but today she comes home and is a bit put out that we've not cooked her tea, despite not having told us she would be home. For someone who permanently has a mobile phone in her hand she finds communication remarkably difficult!
 
worsleyweb said:
Finding it bloody hard coping with my 14 year old. Gone from being my best mate to a complete pain in the arse in about six weeks. She just wants to be out with her mates and grumpy most of the time and just seems to want a new pair of trainers every month and I am the worst dad in the world when I say no.

What age do they get half pleasant again for those that have been through this?
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Remember that they are precious gifts, remember that you are the adult, oh and for credibility's sake don't let them see some of the shit you post on here! That's my advice.
 
A good quality multivitamin and mineral supplement works wonders with teenagers. My three girls all had their moments in their teenage years but luckily, someone told me about vitamin supplements when the eldest was going through the awkward years and the difference was amazing.
 
My mum has one of each and says boys are easier. My sister was the trendy and popular one but showed behaviour akin to descriptions on this thread. She was kicked out at 18 and went on to several poor relationships. She's now a single mum.

I try and keep them away from their friends when I'm in a relationship. It's them and their stirring that will ruin it. Often, by their own admission, they hate each other anyway. Male friendships are more logical.
 
I feel truly blessed that my very soon to be seventeen year old son has displayed virtually none of the 'Kevin and Perry' traits that I dreaded would surface at some point, more as a result of his personal make-up, rather than superb parenting on my part, I reckon. His mother deserves a big pat on the back, however.

He's polite, considerate and gaining an increasingly sharp sense of humour. Despite being half a foot taller than me, we do look very similar, but our personalities are hugely different. He's much less loud, gregarious and full of himself than me - he's also prodigiously gifted at art, which he most certainly doesn't get from me. His three A- Levels of Art, Maths and Chemistry demonstrate where his talents lie. Logic and creativity are not areas in which I excel. Communication is where my talents lie, I guess.

So he's very different from me in terms of talent and disposition, but I'm so very proud of him. Not just because of his achievements - he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last summer and has taken it completely in his stride - but because of his character. He's quite simply a remarkable young man, and I'm very proud he's my son.
 
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