Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

Was just about to post the same. My 10 year old wouldn’t have but by the time he turned 16 he would!!!

In my defence I thought spectacles and glasses were interchangeable.

My six-year-old found the oil spray and decided to spray the kitchen. I walked through the kitchen and slipped, cracking two vertebrae’s. I think it scared them - never did anything that stupid after!

Holds up hand sheepishly to the milk in the kettle. I was visiting a relative in a snowy area and I could not work out how to put the stovetop on ( there was probably a switch somewhere). ME - bright idea boil the milk in the kettle as you can't use a saucepan. I may have left it a touch long. It did not go well. We should all make a pact to teach our children not to boil milk in the kettle.

I also admit to almost killing my mother with a heart attack when I was about 12yo and we were on a train station and she seemed to be speaking really loudly. She probably wasn't.
So I whispered in her ear "Mum, stop making such a glasses of yourself"
Well she had to go and sit on a bench she was laughing so hard she could barely breathe. . And I came first in English that year!!

This weekend my MIL made me a cup of coffee but forgot to put the coffee in. So gave me a cup of boiling water.

Everyone sometimes gets momentary lapses - doesn't matter how well you think you've trained your teenager.

This thread is so funny!

my brother when a teen…brought casserole he’d made in cooking class at school home in the casserole dish in his backpack!

At home, made a bacon sandwich without cooking the bacon and boiled potatoes without water…don’t think the cooking classes helped him!

I suppose I must be lucky, because I have autistic teens I always give very specific instruction when asking them to do things, cuts down on mistakes massively. Not sure if they'd work it out in their own. It also means they're very good at asking if they don't know how to do something.

It’s not only teenagers! On holiday with my highly educated, very smart DH. I’d put some washing on in the hotel laundry, but was going to the gym, so asked him to get it out and hang it up. Returned to find that yes, he had hung up the washing, but it wasn’t ours 🤦‍♀️ He had hung up items including men’s swimming shorts which were not his own and a bra that would have feasibly fit my head in each cup 🤷‍♀️

My ds did this too. The kettle was ruined.

I wonder how many silly things they've done that they've just not told you about

Actually your son is spot on.
This is exactly how you’re supposed to reheat pizza.

This.
I’ve laughed out loud at some of these. They’re just funny and exactly what we all did and our teens do now. Po faced - you’re not equipping them for life - oh please! We all make mistakes and they make funny stories later. I’m very lucky my mum doesn’t tell my teens my antics - probably because her mum delighted in telling me stories like about her (and her friends) ironing her hair on the ironing board in the 60s….

You can teach your teenager life skills. Unfortunately though they think they know a better way of doing things!

Not a parent, but a teacher of teens. Mainly 16 - 19.

I've written this before

Me to student: Did you say pheasant?
Student: No Miss, what is a pheasant?
Me: It's a bird, you can eat it
Student: Uhg, who'd eat a bird?
Me: Do you eat chicken?

Same class at enrolment, I was filling in forms with the students, one had given her nationality as from an African country (only relevant because it wasn't EU)

So I had to ask about a student visa, apparently not, and her passport was out of date due to how long she had been in this country.

My brain is in overdrove, is she in the country illegally? Has she been trafficked? Who do I contact first?

Then she said, "Oh I've got my British passport, will that do?" Yep she had dual citizenship.

Ok so you are proud of your heritage, I totally understand that, but it might be an idea going forwards to tick the 'British' box too.

The one that drives me mad in the summer is students pulling up the blinds that I have just shut because the room is like an oven.

Other things I have explained, yes there really was a ship called 'Titanic', no the Rose and Jack were not real people, just the ship. Well the ship and some characters.

No the difference between soya milk and cow's milk is that one doesn't come out of a cow and the other does not the shape of the bottle/carton. Yes milk comes out of cows. Yes the milk you drink used to be in a cow, or possibly a goat.

I'm sure hormones rob them temporarily of common sense. It's like teens can't tell the time on an analogue watch / clock. I know they all learn to at primary but it fades.

I really miss teaching.

Jeezus it doesn't take much to bring out all the arseholes on this thread. Newsflash: it's a light-hearted thread. That doesn't seem to stop people from jumping on to shit on people's parenting skills or musing a person's kid is mentally challenged. FS I despair. 🤦‍♀️

I thought it was pretty well documented that teenager brains aren't fully developed and for many, any common sense they had, particularly when it requires extrapolating information/learning from one task to a brand new task, or normally requires a bit of impulse control... goes out the window.

My Mother loved to tell the story of how I set fire to my microwave with a pair of knickers because oh, silly child, was drying her pants in the microwave.

She would fail to mention that I'd done this successfully for months - they needed exactly 9 seconds on high - and the only time it went tits up was the time she was in my kitchen wittering and nagging me about something and I couldn't get to the microwave in time (it only had a 30 second min timer). I had no dryer and no money to put the heating on, how else was I to get dry pants in a hurry?!.

I did once fail to realise the hand mixer had got damp in a cupboard, plugged it in, it went bang and I hid in a corner in the kitchen and cried... That was stupid as I'd dried the bloody thing off before plugging it in and I did know it was near 20 years old!

And there was the time I rang her at 2am because my flat was full of wasps which I am terrified of... I was told to fuck off and work it out myself as she wasn't driving a mile at 2am to sort it out (she had a bee suit in the boot of her car so I thought, bizarrely, she might help).

I did... I lured them into the kitchen by putting that light on and all the others off. Then I filled the kitchen with every aerosol spray i had (fly spray, furniture polish, deodorant) until I was sure it was a lethal dose, and shut the door on them. But only after hiding under my duvet as wasp after wasp flew in, like some sort of wasp rave was going on chez moi!

Hoovering up hundreds of dead wasps the following day whilst it was still pretty toxic in there was pretty unpleasant!

My sister once tried to make cheese toasties using burger cheese slices... she did not realise you had to take the individual plastic wrappers off them though. Not tasty.

My step daughter put a foil pan in the microwave and plastic wrap in the oven. Kids don't think at times

I think one of the only positive things that has come out of me becoming suddenly disabled is how competent my 16 year old DS has become at life skills.

He can do anything and everything round the house from cooking and cleaning to furniture assembly, decorating, gardening, all aspects of laundry, shopping, banking, pet care, and helping me with some really specialist hobby stuff as well as his own hobby. He's learned a lot from both me and my DH, who is also very competent, and my DF, who is the same. Spending so much time with men who cook, fix, clean and are very practical all-rounders has been brilliant for him. We've also always encouraged problem solving from as soon as he could walk and talk. I think it's such an important skill to have.

I am worried about him learning to drive, though. He's clumsy and uncoordinated and I don't know how he'll cope behind the wheel.

She has anorexia and her ED coach suspects additional needs so struggles with black and white thinking. Her functioning is that of someone much younger. Things will catch up eventually apparently once her brain is repaired.

i have quite bad eyeball strain from all the hidden eyerolling dealing with 3 teens and a husband who despite seemingly very smart at work can be a daft bugger at home. I think I may also be blinking out WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING in Morse code now. Honestly sometimes I think I’m just a peri bitch stuck in her ways and othertimes I think I live with a circus full of idiots wearing horse blinders.

Not dissing anyone but there are instructions on the packet.

I'm not sure it's not been a thing longer and people just forget. I am 40 now, and spent a year travelling before starting uni - most of the students I lived with hadn't. I lost count of the number of students I had to teach how to use a washing machine, and in freshers week I ended up with a group of stragglers who were too nervous to navigate themselves twenty minutes away to the supermarket and back again without help.

I was quite self sufficient but actually did have a lot of anxiety making calls in my first office job (17 odd years ago) for the first year... I think a lot of that stemmed from not fully knowing the answers to any questions I might be asked/ not fully having learnt work norms yet/ the people on the other end being more senior than I was. Even back then it was rare I'd need to call anyone that wasn't a friend or family before I started work.

Possibly but I learned all those life skills too, quite young and not a carer. There was an expectation of domestic competence, cleaning, basic cooking, washing and ironing.
All really helpful when I went to uni. Learning stuff isn’t bad for you.

That’s a nono

My kids wouldnt know because I hate them and never had them since I was a kid!!! Lol