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If there’s one thing nobody prepares you for, it’s parenting teens.
After years of your child needing you and adoring you, all of a sudden the roles reverse and you’re the one that needs and adores them, while they decide you’re now painfully embarrassing.
If you’re in the throes of raising a teen – or more than one (in which case you probably deserve a medal) – here are some heavily relatable tweets about what it’s like to be a parent through this phase.
1. Expect your fair share of monosyllabic responses.
2. They may dress like 40-year-old hillwalkers. But that’s cool now.
3. Sorry but you’re not as important as their AirPods.
4. They will communicate with you when they need to.
5. Be prepared for some riveting text exchanges.
6. Sometimes it’s kinda like parenting a toddler... But also not.
7. Your self-esteem will take a hit.
8. Sometimes you can’t really win.
9. You’ll do nice things for them and they’ll probably be trés unimpressed.