45 Times Teens Got A Taste Of Their Own Medicine As Their Parents Hilariously Roasted Them On Twitter
I remember my 14-year-old self reading Herman Hesse’s “Steppenwolf,” thinking of the dumb world and dreaming that it would have no consequences. My CD player would be blasting Nirvana’s Nevermind again and again, like a stuck record that had no way of escaping. Fast forward to today, I cringe a little and yet, I find it cute. Being a teen is one ride of a lifetime that feels eternal in the moment, but passes so fast as if it never happened.
Every parent who raises a teenage kid also experiences a fair share of that awkward, overwhelming and transformative time of life. Some, well, most of them, argue (because that’s just a law of nature, right?) and others arm themselves with a smashing sense of humor. And it turns out that some savage parents are able to roast their teenagers into barbecue in just a single tweet.
Today, we collected some of the funniest tweets from the unstoppable parents with teen kids, so scroll down below to laugh your eyes out!
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True for all parenting: Don't give kids a choice where it doesn't exist. Kids are literal thinkers, and teenagers are wiley. If there's a loophole, they'll find it.
We all were teens at some point in our lives. As your parents are likely to tell you, you weren't exactly the easiest kid on the block. So what’s up with this bad teen behavior? Why are they so mad, upset, and gnarly all the time? Well, this study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence may have some answers. The researchers discovered that when teens thought their parents’ reactions to their anger were stronger and more negative than their parents had meant it to be, they became even more aggressive. For example, these parents were more likely to respond to their children’s anger by telling them to “get over it,” which caused their kids to feel dismissed and neglected.
Interestingly, the research also showed that many parents tend to mistake their adolescent’s vulnerable emotions for negativity, and that has some implications. By doing that, they may place them at greater risk for developing delinquent behaviors. Meanwhile, as soon as teenagers recognized their parents’ discipline as too harsh, they were more likely to act. Acting out manifested in talking back, sneaking out of the house, impolite and aggressive behavior, constantly breaking family rules and agreements, etc.
Hey, he trusts you enough to be open with you, and his big "crime" is sneaking into the wrong movie. I say you've done something right.
My teens can wear what they want but then don't get to complain about the cold. Also, I tell them in advance that I will not help out with my warm clothing. That worked rather well after a wee bit of hard learning. (If we go up to the mountains in winter they will wear what I say. Too potentially dangerous.)
To find out more about adolescence and the challenges both teenagers and their parents face, we spoke to Susan Petang, a Certified Stress Management Coach from "The Quiet Zone Coaching," who specializes in teaching women how to get through tough days in one piece, no matter what life change they're experiencing.
“As children grow up, they slowly start the process of separation from the protection of their parents. It starts with the 'Terrible Twos.' Toddlers begin to recognize that they are an individual separate from their caregivers, and start experimenting and exploring. As they grow, there are other times when they move further from the protection of the family 'nest.' It's totally normal, and necessary for them to learn how to function independently,” Susan explained.
Grateful to the Lord above said teen is willing to be out with the family at all.
Having said that, the stress management coach added that there's a fine line between letting our kids learn from their own mistakes and keeping them safe, though. “And while a teen is learning to interact socially, their moodiness can be hard to take. That's where a lot of the tension between teens and their parents originates.”
Susan explained that teenagers have a lot of physical and emotional issues all going on at the same time that are confusing and hard to manage. There are a few reasons for this: “There are the emotional challenges of dealing with hormones. They don't have the social skills yet to communicate what they're feeling. Teens don't have the world experience to know and understand their complex emotions. Let's add the fact that their brains aren't yet fully developed (and won't be until their late 20s),” she said and added that it's a recipe for rollercoaster emotions.
Is it really possible that people would wear clothes they consider ugly just because they are in style atm? Oo
Most importantly, we wanted to find out about ways to deal with difficult teens, which may often seem like mission impossible. “The best advice I can give parents is to listen to their teens and have compassion for what they're experiencing. Remember what it was like when you were that age!”
Susan shared some useful tips and said that it’s best to start with Reflective Listening. “‘It sounds like you're upset,’ ‘It feels like you think my decision is unfair,’ or, ‘It looks like you didn't understand what I meant.’” While doing so, Susan urges parents to make sure you stay calm and have a solution-oriented attitude; solve the problem, don't cast blame.
Maybe you just raised a really independent young person? If so, congrats! That's one of the major goals of parenting. Hopefully in a few days, things will mellow out for her and she'll realize, "Oh yeah, I should probably talk to mom."
I have a nephew like this. He eats and eats and never puts weight on. He never gets a hangover after a night out (don’t worry, he’s over 18). And everyone around him could be dying of some illness or virus and he never gets sick. We’re all jealous of him.
Moreover, it's important that teens get some freedom to make mistakes and learn how to navigate the world, the stress management expert said. “Allow them to have control over decisions that aren't critical. Pick your battles - insist on compliance when their safety is at stake. (How they dress, for example, isn't as important as avoiding drugs and alcohol.)”
“When they make a mistake or act out, use the XYZ Statement: When you do X, I feel Y, and I'd like Z. Here's an example: ‘When you stay out past your curfew without calling, I worry about your safety. I'd like you to let me know when you'll be late.’”
Oh god oh god oh god THIS IS SOO SOO TRUE, AND I DON'T EVEN DO ANYTHING FISHY!!!
The last advice for parents Susan has is to make sure to compromise. “For example, when my 14-year-old daughter wanted to go to a concert in NYC with her friends, I would only allow it if I knew how she was getting there, how she was getting home, who would be there with them (an adult!), and that she would check in with me every hour via text,” Susan concluded.
If I even think about walking away from a convo and my parents emit death rays. Can't even imagine slamming a door
Yeah, doing very extended handstands as a 40-something mom always impresses kids and teens, and my daughter explodes with pride 🥳🤣. (But I do it only when they request it and it's literally my job, teacher for contemporary circus especially acrobatics/clowning/minitramp.)
Its like the day of their 13th birthday they wake up as a completely different kid.
I am afraid, I don't think so. There is only so much you can do against hormones on a rollercoaster - remind the teen in question to shower frequently, wear fresh clothes and, for the love of God, try your best to keep them away from evil smelling products like Axe (for boys) or Impulse (for girls) as these are only unlocking the next level of smell hell... Thank you, thank you, thank you for your efforts!
Parents b***h about how their kids never tell them anything but also b***h when their kids are excited to share their hobbies with the parents and then the parents b***h when their kids steadily withdraw from engaging with the family and don’t share their hobbies or interests anymore.
Spoke to a lady who was nursing a coffee in the subway restaurant as I passed, ( we do that here, nothing strange, and she looked slightly down) I asked, " Are you ok?" She replied, "yeah, I've just got three teenagers at home and I am talking myself into going back." I patted her back and reassured her these days pass. Teen years are extremely hard. My lovely daughter once tried a mini exorcism on me when I didn't wash her underwear! No joke! One son was so emo I worried he would never really walk upright after age fourteen. But we lived through it, they do too. We forget, often we were little turds at that age!!!
Mine once got mad at me for leaving without telling her she woke up and I had been gone 4hrs. I said I'm I woke u up tried to get u to come with us u sat up we had a whole conversation ....she was like what?
I'm just curious. What would be the meaning of "Mom, you've fattened up a bit"?
That does not bother me much since they clean up their own meß. It's the boys, husband included, that put empty containers back in the fridge or cupboards. just because there are 2 gallons of milk in the fridge does not mean there is milk inside said gallon of milk containers
Naw. You can spend quality time with your teens without intentionally embarrassing them. It's hard enough to be a teen. You wouldn't like it if your teen intentionally embarrassed you. Don't do it to them. Still definitely spend quality time with them though.
I'm still waiting for this to hit As my son is 17, daughter 16 and neither of them have shut up yet, I'm guessing the "grunt" gene passed them by.
God forbid the Wi-Fi goes out!!!!!! Y'all know EXACTLY what I'm talking about too!!!!
In Colorado, USA, 15yo are required to have X hours of "mountain driving" in order to get their license. I believe that took about 10 years off my life!
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Parents: ugh babies are the worst. Ugh toddlers are so ridiculous. Ugh my 4/5/6/7 year old is so annoying. Ugh my preteen insulted me. Ughh my teenager is so horrible. Ugh my adult child is trying to be independent against my wishes. Let me tell the whole internet how awful my child is at every stage of life. Also parents: What do you mean you don’t want kids??
Right? Why even bother having children if you're just going to complain about them all the time and guilt trip them if they misbehave.. Sometimes I feel like the decision to have children is less thought through for some people than the decision to not have children is for others.
You are talking about twitter one liners. It's not that deep. Chill.
Wow, calm down. People are just chatting about some tweets.
Misery loves company
This sounds like you don't have kids
Well duh, it takes one slip up to have an unplanned child. Not having a child requires planning (and/or abstinence), and actively taking counter measures.
Yeah I don't understand alot of these. My teens are great. They don't fight me or eachother. I don't get it as a mother. I was however a teen a remember though. If your kids are assholes, they have become that due to parenting.
Don't you have homework to do? With all the post of yours I see here I'm pretty sure you need to double check it. People are allowed to vent, you need to realize that about life. But spending all your time online posting comment after comment is a waste of your life. Go find something you enjoy and find happiness. Being angry all the time is bad for your physical and metal health. Ask yourself, will this even matter 10 years from now?
Maybe they're venting. Everybody needs to vent.
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Both of you, if you read through the comments you will see Yorts name many many times. Making a few post, ok cool your venting. Making a post on nearly half the stuff on here, get help.
They want non parents to suffer too!!! Nope! Children seem to be costly and a pain in the a** when they are little. Then they grow up to hate you for everything you did or didn’t do to them or for them when they were small! No thank you!
My kids might be annoying at times but they are a lot of fun, especially when they are being dramatic. It is truly an awesome thing to watch these stages they go through. We’ll, maybe not the teen years.
It’s possible to love challenging things in life , it’s possible to speak highly of those things and also to vent about them .. kids are challenging and loveable .. relax
Oh dry up. They are called jokes. Do you have any sense of humour at all? Do you go to comedy gigs and call out comedians observations when they are complaining about something? It's twitter and bored panda, not a council meeting.
Naw, 4-8 are the best years ever.
Who the hell is saying "babies are the worst" .. ?? I've never once thought my children are annoying either..maybe those types of people should just rethink about using contraception for like ..forever.
Literally every parent and you’re just being intellectually dishonest. The whole thing when you have a baby is “get ready, this is the last night you’ll sleep for YEARS!”
@Mewton's Third Paw: Um, NO. I have a sister-in-law and at least one friend, who would never say "babies are the worst". They loved the babyhood of all their kids and are the first ones to volunteer to watch /hold someone else's infant. On the other hand, I have an aunt who did not enjoy the baby phase, but she did love them as teens. Some parents, like my brothers, find joy in all the phases. Everybody's different.
It's called humour
A lot of these seem more like spoiled and rude teens. Not every teen is like that
And parents who don't realize the importance of respecting your teenager. It's kinda crazy to expect respect from your teen when you don't give them respect.
How right you are. My mother thought me to be polite to children, because how else would they learn polite behavior? That goes of course for teenagers too.
We are active with our kids. 2 of our 4 are teens and we go shark tooth hunting, kayaking, and spend QUALITY time with them. In turn, we have raised respectful, grateful kids who don't mind when we hug them after their soccer games in front of their friends or even being seen at the mall with us.
Facts, my kids are too happy to see me and want to know about everything in my life. I'm happy but sometimes I just want to be left alone lol
Yep. I don't think I do any of these.
I think so too. My kid is 19 and I can't relate to any of those teen things that are posted here.
I wonder about all the accusations about diaper changes and labor pains. The children certainly did not choose that. That's just part of becoming/being a parent. Just as you have to deal with teenagers.
For real the attitude of “um I was in labor with you for X hours, how dare you not let me embarrass you in public” is gross. Your child didn’t ask you to do that. Your child does not owe you simply because you had a long labor.
As a teen myself, while I know that I have a really good life and a lot of my problems are first world, it’s still a hard part of life, and if my parents did this kind of thing to me, I be crushed and hurt
Yes Yort! But some of these here are just spoiled brats. Taking to your child to the grocery store or forcing them to go on outing with the rest of the family like a normal human is not embarrassing them in public. Manner less teens just paint it that way
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Who spoiled those 'brats' in the first place, Pearl?
@Becky, the Tiktok and YouTube influences who make it seem like they could have absolutely perfect lives if they just had parents that let them live like they do. So when their parents tell them not to do stupid s**t like swallow a mouthful of cinnamon or dance outside a moving car they cry about it on live feed to the world.
Parents: ugh babies are the worst. Ugh toddlers are so ridiculous. Ugh my 4/5/6/7 year old is so annoying. Ugh my preteen insulted me. Ughh my teenager is so horrible. Ugh my adult child is trying to be independent against my wishes. Let me tell the whole internet how awful my child is at every stage of life. Also parents: What do you mean you don’t want kids??
Right? Why even bother having children if you're just going to complain about them all the time and guilt trip them if they misbehave.. Sometimes I feel like the decision to have children is less thought through for some people than the decision to not have children is for others.
You are talking about twitter one liners. It's not that deep. Chill.
Wow, calm down. People are just chatting about some tweets.
Misery loves company
This sounds like you don't have kids
Well duh, it takes one slip up to have an unplanned child. Not having a child requires planning (and/or abstinence), and actively taking counter measures.
Yeah I don't understand alot of these. My teens are great. They don't fight me or eachother. I don't get it as a mother. I was however a teen a remember though. If your kids are assholes, they have become that due to parenting.
Don't you have homework to do? With all the post of yours I see here I'm pretty sure you need to double check it. People are allowed to vent, you need to realize that about life. But spending all your time online posting comment after comment is a waste of your life. Go find something you enjoy and find happiness. Being angry all the time is bad for your physical and metal health. Ask yourself, will this even matter 10 years from now?
Maybe they're venting. Everybody needs to vent.
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Both of you, if you read through the comments you will see Yorts name many many times. Making a few post, ok cool your venting. Making a post on nearly half the stuff on here, get help.
They want non parents to suffer too!!! Nope! Children seem to be costly and a pain in the a** when they are little. Then they grow up to hate you for everything you did or didn’t do to them or for them when they were small! No thank you!
My kids might be annoying at times but they are a lot of fun, especially when they are being dramatic. It is truly an awesome thing to watch these stages they go through. We’ll, maybe not the teen years.
It’s possible to love challenging things in life , it’s possible to speak highly of those things and also to vent about them .. kids are challenging and loveable .. relax
Oh dry up. They are called jokes. Do you have any sense of humour at all? Do you go to comedy gigs and call out comedians observations when they are complaining about something? It's twitter and bored panda, not a council meeting.
Naw, 4-8 are the best years ever.
Who the hell is saying "babies are the worst" .. ?? I've never once thought my children are annoying either..maybe those types of people should just rethink about using contraception for like ..forever.
Literally every parent and you’re just being intellectually dishonest. The whole thing when you have a baby is “get ready, this is the last night you’ll sleep for YEARS!”
@Mewton's Third Paw: Um, NO. I have a sister-in-law and at least one friend, who would never say "babies are the worst". They loved the babyhood of all their kids and are the first ones to volunteer to watch /hold someone else's infant. On the other hand, I have an aunt who did not enjoy the baby phase, but she did love them as teens. Some parents, like my brothers, find joy in all the phases. Everybody's different.
It's called humour
A lot of these seem more like spoiled and rude teens. Not every teen is like that
And parents who don't realize the importance of respecting your teenager. It's kinda crazy to expect respect from your teen when you don't give them respect.
How right you are. My mother thought me to be polite to children, because how else would they learn polite behavior? That goes of course for teenagers too.
We are active with our kids. 2 of our 4 are teens and we go shark tooth hunting, kayaking, and spend QUALITY time with them. In turn, we have raised respectful, grateful kids who don't mind when we hug them after their soccer games in front of their friends or even being seen at the mall with us.
Facts, my kids are too happy to see me and want to know about everything in my life. I'm happy but sometimes I just want to be left alone lol
Yep. I don't think I do any of these.
I think so too. My kid is 19 and I can't relate to any of those teen things that are posted here.
I wonder about all the accusations about diaper changes and labor pains. The children certainly did not choose that. That's just part of becoming/being a parent. Just as you have to deal with teenagers.
For real the attitude of “um I was in labor with you for X hours, how dare you not let me embarrass you in public” is gross. Your child didn’t ask you to do that. Your child does not owe you simply because you had a long labor.
As a teen myself, while I know that I have a really good life and a lot of my problems are first world, it’s still a hard part of life, and if my parents did this kind of thing to me, I be crushed and hurt
Yes Yort! But some of these here are just spoiled brats. Taking to your child to the grocery store or forcing them to go on outing with the rest of the family like a normal human is not embarrassing them in public. Manner less teens just paint it that way
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Who spoiled those 'brats' in the first place, Pearl?
@Becky, the Tiktok and YouTube influences who make it seem like they could have absolutely perfect lives if they just had parents that let them live like they do. So when their parents tell them not to do stupid s**t like swallow a mouthful of cinnamon or dance outside a moving car they cry about it on live feed to the world.