Nearly 4,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Larsa, a boy away at school pressed a reed stylus into a slab of wet clay to tell his mother that her homemade clothes weren’t good enough. That tablet survived. It sits in the Louvre today and, as La Brújula Verde reported, is often called the oldest known complaint from a child to a parent. Reading it feels less like studying an ancient artifact than scrolling through a teenager’s group chat.

Iddin-Sin was not a hard-luck kid. His father, Shamash-hazir, was a high-ranking official under Hammurabi, the famous Babylonian king. That’s exactly why Iddin-Sin had been sent to board at a temple school and learn cuneiform, training for a comfortable future as a........

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