What started your tween/teens tantrum today?

[Lisa]

After reading the "What started your toddlers tantrum today?" thread and realising my toddler has been wonderfully behaved today unlike my 12yr old DD, I thought I would start this thread.

My DD has a school disco coming up. And so the drama starts.
Of course she has NOTHING to wear... so we go shopping. Nothing is good enough. I find this cute top and match it with some jeans. She can't wear that top because xxx wore it to the last disco they had and jeans are a little under dressed I am told. I bite my tongue & roll my eyes. We decide to go to another shop when DD sees this dress she loves from a little boutique store and it was on sale for $20. I can't complain as it is cheap, cute and it suits her. There was a magenta colour, red, blue & black. Now, she originally liked it in the magenta and I agreed to that... but she decides she likes the black one. Yeah it was cute in black but way too grown up looking. I told her to get the magenta. She huffed and bought it.
We get home and she storms off to her room to try the dress on. She comes down and says the straps are too big... they're adjustable so I fix that. She looks lovely in it. Now she is telling me she will be over dressed and just wants to wear jeans! Seriously... someone slap me next time I think to take her shopping for clothes!

Anyone else have a tanty throwing tween/teen?

[Muppity]

OK - so he is 42 not 12 but....

the tantrum in this house started today because "someone" wanted to buy a cheap laptop to just surf the net from the sofa...I identify one that will do everything we need and isn't too exxie..but now "someone" is having a tantrum because he wants it in white. It does come in white but just the top half, no - he wants the whole thing in white, and, why should he have to pay an additional $30 to get it in the colour he chooses! There have been doors slamming, and swearing and a great deal of huffing and puffing and it has been going on for hours

[Fleur]

That could have been us here any day ...
No tantrums today thank goodness - she did get just a bit huffy when I chipped her for being noisy & waking us. But that ('only' huffy) counts as good behaviour here

[rhyb]

Well atm I have my 12 year old sister, 9 year old disabled brother and 5 year old sister living with me so Ill share
This morning Kacey (9year old) dared look at Tealah (12year old) which started the all day whinging sooking yelling fighting that I am so over. Apparently eye contact is enough to kill over.

[Inertia]

Lisa, I so hear you on the disco thing. Its gotten to the point that i dread a school newsletter coming home with the word Disco on it. Miss A had one this year.. it was "Only $5, mum". Fine fine. We pay for the ticket. She comes home that day "Its a fluro disco mum. I dont have anything to wear" - she usually pulls this to raid my wardrobe. Well the only thing with any fluro in it is a black dress is pink trim I got to wear to the races, and she wore that for her formal so she couldnt possibly wear that again!!!!!

So D"sucker"H takes her shopping. Its now an $85 Disco!!! New clothes, make up, accessories, blah blah - see what I mean by sucker! So the night of the disco she is pulling her school bag apart in an absolute panic. Left her wallet at school it seems. In the science room she says. All locked up she says. Can't get in without her ticket - panic panic, drama drama. In steps the sucker again, drives hr to the school, sorts it out and off she goes to the disco. Picks her up later when its over, she gets home - "How was it?" I ask.

"Boring"

Today - we set her off by beating her score on the Wiifit. Oh aren't we just so horribly evil.

[Tinks]

Right now DD who is 10 is having a hissy because it's too hot in her bedroom and has demanded we get an airconditioner installed down that end of the house to make her more comfortable.

The other day she asked me if I'd bought Taylor Swift tickets, I said no becuase they'd sold out. This caused her to literally drop to the floor like a 2 year old and have a HUGE kicking and screaming hissy fit because I'd PROMISED she could go!!! Little does she know that I have bought her tickets to see Taylor Swift which she will get on Christmas Day........I hope the tanty was worth it!

[Lolli]

Dh's 14 year old niece had a big tanty today- refused to talk to any of us, except ds, all afternoon, because her mum said she couldn't keep wearing the magnifying glasses she'd pinched of her Pop. She had been wearing them all day because they looked cool and, big surprise, had a headache- but still cracked it when told to take them off

[mrsmac]

DD1 had a tanty last week cause I told her she couldn't go to the races on her 18th birthday becasue she had her last 2 HSC exams the next day. Apparently I was RUINING her 18th birthday! (sorry that I care about your future hun!) Then I dared ask her to take the bin out the day after her birthday!
Apart from that she has been great, turing 18 has been good for her LOL

[*TripleJ*]

lol tinks hope she kisses ur butt big time when she does get them my mum never did anything like that to me coz i would have been 100 times worse than that

i remember my sister this was weeks ago and shes 18 my mum asked her to feed the cat and she chucked a tanty it was so funny lol i do admit that i had a tanty the other day

[Lisa]

I am thankful I am not alone... thanks for sharing your stories! I have to admit, I had a bit of a laugh because my DD has done soooooooooo many of the things your DD's have done.

My 15 yr old DS is so cruisy compared to his sister.

[Tinks]

..... Apparently eye contact is enough to kill over.

It is here too

[Fleur]

It is here too

Lol, and here also.

Lisa I am glad to hear your DS is easier, I have been hoping my DS's will be easier than their big sister