Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

I'm 31 now, but when I was 18 and fresh to living on my own at uni, I had to ask if the juice needed pouring out of baked beans, because I wasn't sure if you prepared it the same way you do tuna.

I'm not stupid, I was at a Russel Group uni studying Genetics, but I was extremely mollycoddled and boy it showed 🤣

Out of interest, just did an advanced search on one of the super smug posters who is claiming perfect parenting on here. My god, they are a far superior human being to anyone else on the planet, and relentlessly negative about everything, dropping sarcastic and insulting remarks on numerous topics. I genuinely don't understand this phenomenon, what is the point? Is this person utterly miserable in RL? Are they like this with their friends and family? Staggering.

There's a lot of people on this thread who seem to think when a teen says "I didn't know you weren't supposed to...." what they actually mean is "I was curious and thought I'd try it even though I knew it was a bad idea". Edit: or - they started one task, got distracted and ended up with a less than optimal outcome.

Being a teenager is the definition of letting your inside thoughts come out sometimes!

I work with young people and I'm always staggered at the complete lack of looking things up on the internet for answers/helpful information. They'll spend all day on their phones but wont think to use google for anything remotely beneficial.

When we were teens, my mother heard a small crash from the kitchen. My brother popped up a minute later to say jot to worry, he had dropped a tin of beans on his foot. My mother asked him if it had hurt.... so he went back to the kitchen and dropped the tin on his foot again to see if it was painful.

He also once ate his weetabix with a knife and fork without realising.

Of dear! The posters desperate to point score over their perfect parenting clearly lack any insight into the obvious social cues all over this thread.

How embarrassing for them! 😂

DS’s XGF has a masters degree in Quantum physics - but asked me how to cook plain rice.
I was actually more surprised that she even needed to ask when both of them are part of the generation that uses the internet to look up everything. Surely, someone on YouTube has made a video about boiling rice? 😀

Some of these are hilarious 😂
My teens are all fully capable. They can cook, clean, do laundry, all fine - until I leave the house! That's when the experiments start!
This weekend alone, I've had cheap plastic cookie cutters used as pancake moulds in a hot frying pan!
Dog has recently had surgery and is currently wearing a recovery suit. Like a cotton onesie. I asked dd18 to let dog out to toilet whilst I was out. She did let the dog out, the dog had a poo and a wee. Dd did not think to remove dogs recovery suit first!
Ds is now an adult, has travelled the world and has lived in his own apartment in Europe for 2 years. He phoned home at the weekend, saying that there had been a power cut there for nearly a week. My first question was to ask if he had paid his electricity bill. He hadn't! Despite paying his own bills for 2 years, he hadn't put two and two together and was spending his evenings by candlelight.
We have had plenty of toaster incidents. It amazes me what teenagers think you can cook in a toaster.
Plenty of metal in microwave incidents, despite being told umpteen times not to.
We have taught them all how to wash clothes etc, they have all laundered their own bedding since about age 14, yet one of them put their bedding in the tumble dryer with two laundry pods and left it. They had forgotten which machine was the washing machine despite using it regularly!

Never had any of these problems.

@Sugepaper you might have to eat your words in three years or so!

Hormones do crazy things to people - just ask a woman going through menopause. Similar concept, except as a teen they're still forming those neuron pathways.

Similar to someone else, one of my boys put his banana bread in the oven at 220 degrees thinking it would just cook quicker.

Spoiler alert: one banana brick later, he learned that no it does not work that way!

When I first moved to London I was the only girl in a houseful of men. One of them was about 30 and a doctor of physics (he has a list of patents as long as your arm and ones you would recognise too). He came home from work in a right state, his eyebrows gone, half his hair singed, no shoes because the rubber had melted, bandaged to fuck. He had been developing a polymer for vehicles, he had to do heat tests on them in situ. Think of an oven the size of your living room. After the test was done he walked into the gigantic oven after 20 minutes… his reasoning was the oven at home cooled after 20 minutes so the gigantic oven at 1000’s degree would be the same. He had a brain the size of a planet but couldn’t figure out how to fix a hoover bag or hang washing properly. He was adorable and his brain was literally so preoccupied with greater problems he had no common sense whatsoever. He couldn’t even blame being a teen.

(Sorry for linking the Daily Mail) but the bit about not liking phoning because their generation is so used to instant messaging - is literally one of the quotes. It’s not simplistic nonsense at all.

Similarly, Evie, 17, said she 'hates' taking phone calls unless it is from a family member.
She added: 'But anyone else, I don't want them to call me because it feels quite formal, and that's not something I'm used to. It's unknown to our generation, we've grown up texting each other.'

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14258411/amp/College-offers-students-sessions-talk-phone-Gen-Z-anxiety-calls-causes-nausea-dizziness.html

I asked my son to water our (house)plants while we were on holiday (he was in his 20s). We spoke a couple of times during my absence and he assured me that he was on top of this. I came home to find all my plants dead or close to death. Turned out he thought I meant the garden plants and had been doing it daily with the hosepipe.

I hadn’t asked him to do the garden because it was forecast to piss down constantly while we were away.

DD put a ready meal in the microwave for 40 mins because she followed the oven instructions instead of the microwave. Because she followed the oven instructions she had removed the film lid, luckily. Otherwise there would have been an explosion of molten pasta sauce at some point. She was left with a VERY dry dinner and told me not to buy that one again as it was horrible.

Many years ago I went away for a few days leaving late teen in charge of the house, the cat and a small pot of tiny tomatoes on the garden table that I was growing to look pretty and eventually eat .House and cat fine. Tomatoes dead. Why hadn’t teen watered them?

Because there was a hose pipe ban.

None of this is new, I have a (well thumbed) copy of Delia how to cook - first published in 1998 - chapter one is how to boil an egg. It genuinely is smart teens whose brains aren’t fully formed and they do (as we all do sometimes) daft shit.
I don’t know whether to be slightly horrified or seriously impressed at the 9 year old up thread who can make a decent gin and tonic 😂

I think part of it now is bloody tik tok and you tube 'hacks'. There is apparently a short cut for everything so it's no wonder teens think they can bypass how it's normally done and come up with their own ingenious tricks to save time and effort. My dd isn't too bad but apparently their first Home Ec class was interesting with some interesting techniques for washing up etc. I pity the poor teachers.

30 years ago uni flatmate boiled an egg. He did exactly what his mum told him. Put egg in pan, cooked for 3 mins or whatever. Sadly, his mum had not told him to put water in the pan first. OMG it stank.

The stories of milk in kettles has reminded me of a grown up I know, in her 50s at the time, who warmed up a bottle of mulled wine in her kettle.

Tea tasted interesting after that. 😆

Before half term, DS (16, Y11)needed a new bus pass. He bought a week long one on Monday. He forgot he'd done this and bought another one on Tuesday. He had an after school intervention on Wednesday, so I picked him up. He had an inset day on Friday.

So he paid £22 for 7 individual bus journeys, which would have cost £7.70 if he'd bought them individually. Unfortunately, his bus app is linked to my credit card.

There are, but I read an interesting article that explained the effects of the internet on young brains. Kids don’t need to develop problem solving skills any more, because they can find the answer to everything online. We had to work things out for ourselves because there was often no other quick fix. We retained info because we’d need it again in the future, we couldn’t just google it again. Similarly, youngsters will disregard written instructions because they’re so used to getting their information from videos.

This thread is ace, and has made me feel so much better about my own pair of dumbasses! 😃

Brilliant !!

To be fair 40 years ago my mum gave me money to buy a stamp and post a letter.

I posted the letter and brought the stamp home.

Exactly!

Did you mean to be so smug rude?