Me when i was 13 and wasn’t allowed to get my eyebrow pierced
/r/allFor mom: perpetual amusement.
For OP: perpetual reality check.
The moment I started making money I bought every expansion pack 😂
Bruh that’s like $82,000 or something!
Ok not every one but a lot of them
They just typed in motherlode and money is no longer a problem.
;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;
Rosebud
Well the first one had only like 6 expansion packs (and free downloads on the Maxis website).
I did the same thing, sadly the Sims 4 sucks so much compared to the Sims 3!
I was sent to my room around 10 years old (I think?) My room window was right about the living room window. I wrote "Fuck You" on a piece of paper and lowered it down to the living room window with a piece of string. Still hear about that one 25 years later 😂
I would have laughed so hard.
Iconic, honestly
AbsoLUTELY iconic behavior
10 year old you was a fucking legend 😂
That’s great. Please tell me there was hysterical laughter when it arrived on the ground
I love this!
This reminds me of another memory. The first Sims came out when I was in 3rd grade and I wasn't old enough at 9 years to play a game rated 12 and up. I begged my mom to get it, but it was $40-someodd and she followed the Canadian rating system religiously for all the media we consumed as kids. My parents hinted that if I was patient I may get it for xmas, so I held out and waited.
Xmas that year came and went and there was no Sims. I was in anguish and I felt betrayed! A bunch of my friends at school had it already and I was the odd one out. There were many tears.
2 years later it had gone down in price and I was 11 years old. Close enough to 12 I guess, although I never shut up about not getting it at xmas 2 years prior and my parents were both tired of my bratty whining. I think they were planning on giving me it at my 12th birthday, but let me have it as an xmas gift a month early just so I would stop bothering them.
i once told my mom that i would never embarrass my kids EVER, and she made me write it on a piece of paper and then date & sign it 😂 it’s still in her wallet!
Never tell your kids! Although, your mom probably will
If it was sims2, that was totally valid.
The disrespect to OG Sims
This comment is disrespect to Sims 1
But the graphics 😭
THE DISRESPECT!
My 8 year old is sending us letters like this now
It's
Priceless
My mom won’t let me forget that I demanded the spice girls would absolutely remain as great and timeless as the Beatles
They did. Fight me on this.
Scratch that, I’m ready to go into battle with you!
Love it.
To bad the holidays just passed. Bring it up at Easter dinner.
I got into an argument with my dad about Lady Gaga like this, he accused her of just being a Madonna copycat. I think I won that battle.
I told my father he ruined my life around 20 years ago. He had a trophy made.
Hahahaha I can’t.
My 4yo had a MAJOR meltdown recently and I told my mom on the phone if 4yo could write she would have been up in her room writing in her diary about how much she hates me lol
A1 blunder. But real question - did you ever get the piercing?
I did! I wasn’t great at school, it was a reward for passing 9th grade
Woohoo!
I wanna know too! And if so do you still have that tell tale scar?
I had to take it out the first time, you can still see the scar next to my current jewelry if you squint
So SO glad you had adults in your life who wouldn’t let you get your eyebrow pierced at 13.
Parental unit energy.
For real, I know 13 year olds with more piercings than me and I have 5.
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My 15 year old sister has like 6 facial piercings that she started getting at 12🙃
I hate everything about you
why didn't you let me?
I hate everything about you
why didn't you let me?
Lmaoooooo not me singing this in my head too
What song?
i hate everything about you - three days grace
Thanks. I do know that song lol
Oh dude. I haven’t heard that song in forever
Parenting a teen right now and I feel this so hard.
What sucks the most is you can’t say “you’ll thank me when you’re older” because that just makes them madder.
My kid asked me last week what kept me from sending them to some sort of boarding school when they were 13 and I didn’t have a good answer.
I say, say it anyways. My dad used to tell me, “I’m not letting you do X because I love you, if I didn’t love you, I’d let you do what you want”. I didn’t appreciate it then, but I do know.
All my nieces and nephews are close to grown. Now I’m a nanny for a 2 year old a what the fuck am I gonna look forward to?!
My heart goes out to you, hang in there <3
It is the best and the worst.
He's so interesting and hilarious, but also the hormones and rage come out where they're most safe to come out and I am so grateful to be that place but I'm such a sensitive human and it has taken me some time to learn to hear what he has to say without letting it deeply sink in. I just know that tonight is the night for all of the feelings behind the anger of the last few days to overflow after a rage fest that I have nothing to do with being fully directed at how awful I am, but I'll get to see the tiny, tender boy that I know is still in there by the end of the night. I have been readying myself for it since I saw it in his eyes last night lol.
That said, I really do love the teen years most days!
Edit to add: thank you. It certainly isn't for the weak
One reason I'm nervous to have kids is I know I'm so deeply sensitive I'll really struggle to handle what they might throw at me. I don't want to seem weak or unable to walk with them through tough times, but I feel like one mild insult might break me.
I had a big response typed up but got sidetracked with dinner and it got lost.
You know when you watch a publicfreakout video and it is so obvious that the person screaming at their barista is not actually screaming about coffee but about something happening in their world? That's what most teen freakouts are (in my parenting experience). Like, sure, it is possible that I ruined your coffee and that is the straw that broke the camel's back, but at the root of this breakdown is a hurt that is not coffee related.
Kids are vicious and it can be so brutal. I had him when I was 18 and it has been really challenging trying to become an adult while raising someone else. Probably all parents think that their kid is special, but this kid was just born light years ahead of his age. He's been unreasonably kind since the day he joined us. He's forgiven my fuck ups a million times and taught me so much about giving people grace.
I think that this age is hard because you know who they are at their core, but they are also becoming someone else and they are trying to make those two people make sense. It is scary to lose them while they go through the messy process of growth after cherishing so many little things about them.
When the tiny whimsical boy with the missing teeth, wild hair, beautiful eyes, melodic laugh, and a million stuffed animals that went EVERYWHERE he went is suddenly replaced with a 6 foot tall 15 year old in punk rock clothes and more sass than I can describe looks at me and says, "I hate you and I can't wait until I can go live with aunt and only see you at Christmas. You make me miserable" I die inside, spiral out of control, maybe cry depending on the day, and then remind myself that we're both just people doing our best. There's a lot of apologizing and forgiveness in both directions.
Tonight has been smooth. The only insult I got is that I have no taste, I only like stupid movies, and he wishes I could just be cooler - I hate anime. That actually means that he loves me but that I have no taste and he wishes I were cooler.
Tldr: kids are harsh and say hurtful stuff, but they're just trying to learn how to do life. My hope is that if you give them space to be assholes and meet that with love and patience, but a fair dose of accountability, hopefully they outgrow being an asshole? I'll update in...5 years? Parenthood is my favorite hard thing.
❤️
This is so well said!
I have a teenage boy in my life who will be there for a very long time, not by my choice but by my other choices. Very little of his shitty behaviour is his fault and it makes me want to smack his mom about the head often, too but the hormones and the rage is driving me nuts. I don't have kids for a reason, my siblings' children were never 'this' bad but I have so much respect for parents who do this part with grace. I just mostly want to throttle him but I work hard to keep it to myself.
I would be lying if I said I don't regularly want to throttle him. I flip him off through walls and ask my husband how it is possible for us to be so nice to him and give him so much only for him to still be such a mean human. I have been awake for 20 minutes and already caught attitude because how dare I wake you for school.
I also don't remember my siblings being this hard, but part of me thinks that maybe it is because I was in my own teen rage. Fwiw, it is easier when it is your own kid because you get to have the memories of when they were little and sweet to keep you from attacking.
Best of luck. We're in the trenches together.
You sound like a really great parent. I hope you hear it from him as well, at least one day.
That’s cute. You sound like a really good parent. He’s lucky to have you and will make up for all the teen stuff years later when he realizes just how lucky.
Thank you! He still gives me nighttime snugs every night and hand squeezes for a secret and silent 'I love you' pretty often. I'm excited to watch him in this life.
Feel so bad for teenage boys right now.
Not saying their struggles are any worse than others but I just feel bad remembering that time in life and having those out of control feelings and having no guidance.
Anyways good on you OP
I have a lot of feelings about all of that, but it all boils down to me agreeing with you. It is heartbreaking and scary.
They somehow know everything and yet are so stupid
And somehow make you feel like you are the stupid one
I wish someone stopped me from piecing my eyebrow at 19, i still have a scar and my eyebrow grows weird
I've always thought that the eyebrow ring scar looks damn cool, personally. Although I suppose when it's a permanent feature on your own face, you might feel differently about it. I tried an eyebrow ring at one point but it was constantly getting caught on shit, even just from taking my t-shirt off. So I ended up getting rid of it before it got ripped out. Same with a nose ring. Always loved the look of it but unless it's a stud, it's constantly getting caught on shit. Ended up giving up on piercings altogether. I think I'm too lazy to deal with the fuss.
My mom took me to get my nose pierced when I was 13. 30 years ago! I can only imagine how many little nose studs I've lost over the years. Still have it.
She wouldn't let me get my eyebrows done though. So of course I just had to do it when I turned 18...twice. I don't think either one lasted more than a year. One looked particularly stupid bc it was pierced so shallow it was a hoop hanging off this tiny strip of skin. Should have listened to mom.
your piercer shouldve been upfront with how badly surface piercings can scar, especially if left to the point of rejection. all you can do now is come up with a cool barfight story explaining how you got it.
I thought about it at one point, I'm glad I held off on doing it. Got a septum piercing instead and I love it
A third of one eyebrow drastically thinned during postpartum hair loss and it never grew back. My eyebrow thief is nearly 10.
This is Top Tier stuff right here. Thanks OP
The angst! Would make a great chorus in a 00’s emo song 🤣
I got one when I was like 16.
It rejected like most of them do.
Still have my nose and lip rings, though. The eyebrow one hurt the worst.
Leave some angst for the rest of us
Meanwhile I was 16, watched one movie where a chick had her eyebrow pierced. The instant the movie was over I asked my mom to take me to get mine pierced. She took me the next day Lmao
I was 14 when I asked my mom for a belly button piercing and she said yes (???). I was so surprised that I chickened out until I turned 16 and finally got it 😂😂. My dad who was and still is married to my mom was not a fan of this decision lol
Idk why but I find it so strange that you specified that your dad was and still is married to your mom lol
Lol I just meant that he reeeeeally disapproved of this decision and I usually only hear of parents not being on the same page when they’re divorced 🤷🏻♀️
Ah fair enough haha
Fun fact my mom let me get mine pierced at 14 to spite my father because they were divorced & he was not a fan either
She knew…
My mom took me to get my belly button pierced on my 13th bday. Looking back.... what in the actual fuck.
De you still like your piercing?
I do. I’m 24 now & I still wear it daily. My opinion on it may change later though tbh. If I take my ring out, the scar/hole is pretty gnarly to me, & it makes my eyebrow grow a little awkward.
My mum happily let me get a nose stud at 16 for my birthday and was supportive of me gluing a crystal onto my nose for a day beforehand to ‘try it out’ haha. I love that I got that freedom and support.
Haha I wanted to get mine done when I was in my teens too. I got both my ear lobes and an industrial on my left. I seem to have sensitive skin as they all got infected on and off the first year that I had each one. It has scared me off getting anything else pierced or tattoos. I'm glad I never bothered trying to get an eyebrow piercing.
check out the Association of Professional Piercers at safepiercing.org if you ever get the itch for a piercing. it’s a voluntary organization that approves studios and piercers who only use safe jewelry, proper sterilization, studio setups, etc. really good baseline to finding a good piercer
All my piercings are over decade old now but thank you.
incase the itch returns!!
... They've been healed over for years now though?
the itch to get new ones is what i was implying
Not literal itch- the itch to get a new piercing 😉
Pure poetry. Did you ever get the piercing?
I wanted my tongue pierced in the worst way at 13 and my Dad seemed to finally give in, told me to get in the car. We drive down to the place I wanted to get it done and they’re closed. He knew. Laughed at me the whole way home. 20 years later now and I’m glad he did it, even though it crushed me at the time lol. He’s a good Dad, one of his many “pranks” lol.
“why do you hate me?”
As a 34 year old, my 14 year old self felt this deeply, haha
Lmaooo this is HILARIOUS. So angsty!
Lmfao, my mom sent me my diaries from when I was a teenager she found. Dear god, it was so hard to read those. I was dramatic AF 😭😂
Reading the note before the title made it a lot funnier.
lol I wasn’t even allowed to get my ears pierced until i was 13 😂
What year was this?
Year of our lord 2008
Damn. A year before i was born. I feel young now.
My cat after I stop giving her treats.
Your 13 year old self has the same exact handwriting as me, I genuinely thought I wrote that for a second.
Funny enough I managed to change my handwriting in high school to make it look WORSE, on PURPOSE. it worked and my writing looks nothing like this lmao
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this is so funny, I love it😭
I read elbow, and was like; Why….?
This could be an Olivia Rodrigo song
Well thank god u didn’t get ur eyebrow pierced…
Oh dear
Me when my mom wouldn’t let me get my nose pierced at 15
Yeah caught my 8 year old saying “f you for sending me to my room” had to hold back the laughter cause it sounded so wrong coming out of his mouth 😂😂
It's always a surprise to find out how well they know you and thus know exactly where to stick the knife. Terrifying really.
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I wrote my mom a letter saying she ruined my life when she wouldn’t let me play the sims past 8 pm and it’s still pinned in her office