Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

God, mine is very geographically challenged even though she has been on plenty of holidays. She thought Slough wasn't a real place.

Oh for goodness sake. I was selling birthday cakes at 18 so my cooking ability was pretty advanced as it goes (thanks to my mum for being a good parent and teaching me) but I still did my fair share of really stupid things in the kitchen through my earlier teenage years.

My housemate at college tried to put out a frying pan fire with water - stopped them just in time

I had a very similar student period to you.... a kid who can cook on a student campus is like gold dust... why I don't know!

That's not to day my 2 teens haven't done a few stupid things... the casserole dish not fitting in the oven before moving shelves being one, leaving the front door wide open when they come in 'because I needed the loo'...

Yeah they don’t when they’re 10 they go worse as they get to teens

Some of these common sense things are just physics. Like cardboard burns or plastic melts under intense heat or how microwaves work.

Part of parenting is teaching dcs about safety. I have told them not to put metal or plastic in a microwave as soon as they could open one. Also about gas stoves and fires. And not putting electrics near water.

These things are not watch and learnt. They should be actively taught and monitored. I dunno. I am not the best at teaching stuff systematically but safety I don't take shortcuts.

Well lets take this a step further then......

if you are determined to make a point that these children havent been parented for the modern world properly, then neither have yours.

If they learned cooking, food prep, laundry, ironing (why?!) etc by you, then all you have done is carrying on the expectation that these are womens jobs. You have taught them that only women do these jobs, unless you have an adult man in the house teaching them too and I feel sure that your personal level of smugness would have found it necessary to point this out if you had. You are perpetuating the stereoptype, your daughters will expect to do it, your son will expect their wives to do it. Yet another family with kids that think only vaginas can work washing machines......

Or, we could dial it right back to the spirit of this thread, which is "WTF happens to teenage brains that they think that this is a good idea? haha!"

lol! My dh did this the first time we used it so not confined to dozy teens.

Cheese on toast in a toaster!

What a surprise all the cheese fell off!!!!!

Welcome one and all to the Sunday Super Parent Club. As I am sure you are aware, this runs at the same time as the MN Temperance League Meeting, but feel free to dip in and out of both in order to parade your perfection in front of as many people as possible.

Why do they need so much validation? We don't care!

Thankfully mine seem to have been pretty blessed with common sense, dd not so much with geographical knowledge as she’s made some right howlers about where she’s going and thank goodness for Google maps! As a first year student she gave her flat mates a demonstration of how to iron including one videoed her to watch next time and one of them wrote down her pasta bake recipe to make for parents when she went home, it was basically leftovers in Passata with some herbs, hope they enjoyed it!

My god - the smug parenting crew are out in force. God forbid your perfect children ever mis-iron a shirt sleeve or split a béchamel...

(Whoever wrote - Did you get there on your High Horse? gets a round of applause from me 😂. )

This thread has made me chuckle 🤣🤣

Oh, I’m honestly so far from being a super parent. I berate myself daily. I wish I could say dd14 could cvit k a full on roast etc, but I can’t.

but yeah, she can fry an egg.

Wasn't aware making a lemsip properly was a life skill.
She can do all the other things you list so I suppose I can't have failed too badly

Welcome one and all to the Sunday Super Parent Club. As I am sure you are aware, this runs at the same time as the MN Temperance League Meeting, but feel free to dip in and out of both in order to parade your perfection in front of as many people as possible.

@Iwishicouldflyhigh

I'd say it depends on if they have any kitchen and kitchen appliance experience. They still need to be taught. I have a friend with teens and she has done absolutely everything for them. Not too long ago one called her at work asking how to use the oven as wanted to cook something. She was explaining it like you would to a 5 year old and super stressed about them doing it (age 19). Got a text from them saying "success." Then a panic call later that the over was still hot.

Turn it off, Love. 🤦‍♀️
It's not like the microwave....

Don’t forget me 😆😆😆

My then teen DS set my microwave on fire defrosting a bagel.

Same DS put his hand through an internal glass panel in a door pissing about play fighting with my teen DD.

Again same DS asked me if he needed to crack eggs to scramble them.....sigh.

On a positive note he's now a functioning adult who's an qualified HGV mechanic who's about to get married to a lovely woman so there's light at the end of tunnel for dumb ass teenagers.

I think the shortcut heating-milk-for-drink-lightbulb-GENIUS thing must be quite common. 40 years ago my brother put milk in the bottom of a stovetop espresso pot instead of water - he thought he’d get a cappuccino. Luckily the valve which the boiling milk shot out of was pointed at the wall and not at him.

Also an intelligent mind is not necessarily a practical mind. I find competence snobs to be very dull people, mostly. Yes you were born with the innate knowledge of how to work household appliances but can you hold an interesting conversation about art.

@gannett the two are not mutually exclusive you know. But do feel free to comfort yourself. And it is also a bore to go on about your knowledge of art.

Above post 18 and dont know what insurance is really.

I nearly burned down the kitchen in the student house cooking sausages. But to my defense I didn't know the grill pan hadn't been cleaned for three years before I moved in. I was 16, the rest of the tenants were 21/22. They got me kicked out!

Totally true.

which is why if your child at 17 does not know how to cook an egg, make a lemsip etc then you have clearly not taught them basic lessons life skills, and that’s not funny, it’s a parent failure.

i haven’t consciously taught my children much, they just kniw…. From having done basic fun cooking with me and watching me cook and prepare, iron, hang washing etc etc.