Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

I used to eat raw bacon as a kid, when it was shopping day and nothing left. Pretty gross when I think about it, as parma ham etc was not a thing in my area of the UK in the 80’s. I was just hungry and that was all that was left!

That had me crying with laughter! 😂😂

I'm sure in a few years I'll have my own stories about DD to add, she's only 11 but bless sometimes she is a away with the fairies 😁

Reminds me of the time I wondered what would happen to a bit of toilet roll if I held it above my lit candle. Burnt my fingers and signed my carpet. Luckily I learnt not to do THAT again.

I remember the time my sister tried to microwave a frozen family sized pie. And the time she boiled some sausages, the proceeded to place the boiling hot pan on the plastic draining board which subsequently melted of course. I don't think I've ever seen my mum so mad.

When I was 15 I was pretty smart, and had a good understanding of general science/safety/home ec, but I still tried to wash up an electric whisk in hot soapy water whilst it was still plugged in. I didn't get a lucky escape and ended up in quite a serious condition in hospital.

17 years later I'm a fully functioning adult!

My two daughters are nothing like the teens on this thread, thank God. They have been raised earlier than anticipated due to my health collapsing when they were 7 and four, to cook, operate a washing machine and iron, and other such things. My eldest, when on her residential trip age ten was the only one who was able to put her duvet in the cover and brought all her dirty clothes back in it's designated bag and not mixed in with the clean ones. My friends were extremely envious of that. They can also paint and decorate, assemble furniture, and know basic car maintenance before they started to drive. Most of this has been due to necessity due to my health, but neither feel hard done by as we've still had fun and they are largely prepared for adult life

My 19 year old son did a year at catering college and worked at a carvery...I texted today asking him to get the veg on for the roast dinner cos I was at a hospital appointment and it was running late ( the meat was already done). I got home to find him still peeling the spuds but the Swede and carrot (only about 1 Carrott between 5 of us) was already boiled! So no it's not just your son

Well done you

I don't know how they survive outside the house without a parent.

One of my SD15's masterstrokes recently was building an "obstacle course" for my 4 yo out of furniture piled up on top of each other and then encouraging her to "complete the challenge". I thought they were watching a movie together. I walked in just in time to catch DD who was about to fall from a tower of assorted objects onto an upside-down chair.

Oh bore off. This thread is ace. We all do silly things from time to time.

Are these the teenagers you all want to leave at home for a week and let travel alone? This is why people ask 😂

Dh’s grandpa, into his mid 90s, used to boil his eggs in the kettle and use the same water to make his morning tea.

When I first arrived on the scene as the first serious girlfriend of this generation, Dh and MIL had to do a lot of scrambling around for fresh water because he apparently kept trying to make me coffee with 2 day old boiled egg water. Apparently, the kettle makes quite a nice boiled egg, so I’m told.

@Srepmum1984 fancy Japanese bin has absolutely killed me 😂😂😂

@Rainbow1235 are you my mom? 😂

DS has been doing laundry for a good 18 months now - age 14- and a couple of weeks ago couldn’t find the laundry capsules to improvised wit some washing up liquid instead… just FYI its foams, REALLY foams but still the kitchen fkoor got a good wash I suppose

My eldest has just turned 13… I am mentally noting all these stories to pre-empt any of the same errors in judgement. Starting with a tour of the kitchen 😂

14 DS last year

Can you lock the front door mate before you come up to bed (from the inside)
Sure - which key shall I use?
Um the one you always use when you come home
What the key I use to come in works inside too?
Sure mate, it’s the same door and the same key

He was utterly bamboozled for days at this

@blueshoes teens do indeed cook meals, clean, tidy and otherwise mimic the jobs you do around the house - but what they are doing is modelling. They're mimic what out do, or following instructions. Because they still haven't yet learned or developed the skills to identify a problem and work out independently how to solve the problem.

I lived alone from 18, and was very much taught how to cook, clean, shop etc. I still made stupid mistakes because I hadn't yet developed problem solving skills.

Yep.
I was standing on my own feet at 16 living on my own at 18 working and paing my own bills and working on a course to make something of myself.
The other week a friend of mine told me her 17 year old fried an egg but it dint taste how mum done it because he cracked the whole thing shell as well in the pan.
She said it was so funny.

A few years ago I came home to one teen son inside the house staring at his teen brother locked outside the house at the back door. Just staring at other like monkeys in a zoo. Neither had thought to open the front door. I just pictured them staring at other for half a hour.

The keyless one has microwaved dry instant noodles and cooked a pizza for six hours in the oven, and microwaved a frozen pizza. He has dyspraxia and executive functioning issues. It's all a learning curve ( I hope)

I’m sat here having a well earned wine and laughing my head off 😆

Another friend of DS decided that NYE at our friends party was the perfect time to see how much beer he could drink before he puked.
Not sure how much he got through but he ran into the main party at midnight, told us all he loved us then spent the next hour in the loo puking before being carried home by his weary parents. He’s 15.

My nephew as a teenager asked is Vietnam a place or is it just a war!

I asked my daughter to make lunch - soup and some bake in the oven rolls (ambitious I know).

She came in and told me the soup was in the microwave and what temperature for the rolls. So I said 'No, cook the rolls first as the soup will heat quicker.' She disappears off.

Next thing she was back in the doorway - tin of soup in hand - and said 'ok. I've stopped the soup - what temperature for the oven?'

She'd just put a closed tin of soup into the microwave! 🤦🏻‍♀️. I nearly had a heart attack!

I thought my teens did not have problem solving skills but hmmmm this thread is hilarious if not worrying. I would have thought growing up at home teens would watch you around the house, help out with cleaning, laundry and chores even if very occasionally, try their hand at making themselves snacks and heat food at home.

Jesus someof the people on this thread!

I've made it my life's work to try and instill common sense in my teens/young adults

My eldest is autistic and has zero common sense. If you teach him a specific set of instructions, he can do it but if life deviates, he cannot think of contingencies, but my other two do manage, but will inevitably make mistakes.

Rome was not built in a day and what seems common sense as a fully fledged adult, is nit always obvious as a teen.

I'm guessing a kit of those on here telling parents of teens how awful we are, don't actually have teens?