Raising teens and totally stressed out? You're not alone.
It's one of the most difficult times to be a parent. Their bodies are changing, they're less interested in spending quality time with you, and the hormone-fueled mood swings aren't fun.
Thankfully, you can seek comfort with these 19 tweets from parents who know the struggle of raising teens all too well!
Yep, every day can feel like a battle when you're raising teens.
Whether it's them sneaking out late at night, giving you attitude, or arguing against completing their chores, this is a film we'd rather miss.
"You think your kid's room is bad? I watched our Roomba go in the doorway of my teen's room - looked both ways, and turned right back around and left," this Twitter user wrote.
As you grow older, your humor changes. So what's funny to your teen may result in fake laughter from you. This mom should consider herself lucky that her teen wants quality time, though!
"Having a teenager is like living in a haunted house: every now and then you'll see a figure in the corner of your eye, hear moaning, and then a door,' this Twitter user wrote
It's the oldest trick in the book! Wanna know why? Because parents themselves used it, too.
And faking our period so we wouldn't have to run laps in gym class. Or using a hairdryer to fake a fever. Ah, to be a teen again.
Certain parents expectations were certainly off when they gifted their teen with a phone. While they wanted to send sweet texts and gab throughout the day, their teen had other ideas. To be a food critic!
"My teenager just unloaded the dishwasher without being asked," this Twitter user wrote. "She’s either done something wrong or it’s the goddamned apocalypse." It certainly sounds like hell has frozen over to us!
This parent has every right to be suspicious! It's not every day (or any day, really) that a teen does chores without being asked a million times.
Maybe they know they messed up and they're punishing themselves?
"My daughter went back to college today and I texted her that I missed her so much and she texted back 2.5 hours later, 'Yes.' Then, 'Sorry, that wasn’t for you.' I WAS IN LABOR FOR 14 HOURS," this parent tweeted.
"My teen is starving. The only thing he’s ate today is a bowl of cereal, 5 sandwiches, 12 granola bars, a rotisserie chicken..." this mom tweeted. Ugh, if only we had that fast metabolism again!
We can add quite a few more on there: talk too long to their friends, try to be like the "cool" parent, refuse to let them walk out of the house dressed in barely any clothes.
The list goes on!
Remeber Monica's messy closet in Friends? Well, this is kind of like that. It's a "don't look, don't tell" policy in most households with teenagers. Opening those doors feels a lot like opening the gates of hell.
At least tip if you're going to do this! On the bright side, it's probably better that teens leave their mess for their parents to clean up rather than let it fester and grow mold in their rooms.
