Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

Result, you have raised an individual that puts efforts to right his wrongs.That's very sweet and all is forgiven😍

DS left for school one morning, completely oblivious to the fact that the electric switchboard next to the front door was on fire. Luckily DH and I noticed in time to intervene before there was serious damage. I questioned DS when he got home about how he'd managed to miss the hall full of smoke. He said he thought I was cooking bacon 🙄 We could have died!

Same DS complained about the "new shampoo" having bits in it. It was clearly labelled as body scrub.

All the perfect po-faced posters - off you fuck, this isn't the thread for you.

DS14 snapped a spindle on the bannister tonight. 'I didn't know you weren't supposed to swing on them'.

any reason you've replied twice? I've really touched a nerve haven't I

Well done you, aren't you amazing with children who have never made a mistake

It was years ago, I used to bring my class to London to the YHA hostel in the holidays and it was when they still had gas stoves. I was gob-smacked (as were my class) by a Japanese teenager, who turned the gas knob on and then went off in search of matches!!!!

DD - used a plastic tray in grill, instead of a baking tray to make her cheese on toast! The plastic tray completely melted into the grill pan. The house had that vile burning smell afterwards for a few days .

DD - and her friends claim they are environmentally conscious that's great. Went to a protest in our local area about the litter/ rubbish problem armed with placards . When I asked DD where here placard was afterwards, her answer was that she left it there, as did her friends.

you could not make it up!

The teens heating milk in the kettle surely need to save up for a velvetiser.

The teens buttering bread before toasting it just need a couple of toaster bags, I get them in Home Bargains but I’m sure they’re readily available elsewhere.

there's no "apparently" about it...

Trust me your 10 year old will at some point do something completely stupid 🤣

DD's flat share utility bills were very high, none of the girls could work out why. DD suggested that as they had all been having more baths and showers, that might be the cause.
They laughed at her because baths and showers use water not electricity or gas. She asked them how they thought the water got hot; they still refused to believe it had anything to do with energy use.

I have to admit that I did the milk in the kettle thing in a hotel last year. If you catch it just as it boils you don't ruin the kettle. Just give it a good rinse out and it's fine. Lovely cup of hot chocolate. It is several decades since I was in my teens.

I’m sorry but a lot of these are just odd. Eating raw bacon, putting milk in a kettle, thinking you fry eggs with a shell on?

Either dreadful parenting or not very bright. My 10 yr old wouldn’t do any of this.

Haha I was just about to post that mine had done this milk in the kettle for hot chocolate
I couldn't be cross as he had gone out and purchased me a new kettle for when I arrived home 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Many years ago when I was 19... my new flatmate cooked something in the pan and immediately poured the hot oil into a black plastic bin bag. Then complained that there was something wrong with the plastic bag. I get people lack common sense but surely at 19 she heard about MELTING!!!

My DS doing national 5 home economics and chemistry .....I don't know how to boil an egg 🙄

My daughter (Jewish, raised Orthodox from birth) was talking to her (Muslim) friend. No idea of the context or how they got on to the topic but I walked in to hear ‘Islamic jihad? Is that different to Jewish jihad?’

(She still has no idea what she’d confused herself with and believe it or not she’s very politically minded/engaged so me and her friend will not be letting it go for a LONG time)

My 20 year old started eating raw streaky bacon, I said what are you doing you need to cook that "oh, do you?" not sure if she thought it was some type of parm ham or something itlalian.

This thread is ace!

At uni someone asked me if the pasta sauce was self-thickening because he'd been stirring it in with the pasta for ages and it was still like soup. He hadn't drained the water out.

Also someone followed the instructions for making an omelette which started 'take 3 eggs, place them in a mixing bowl, add salt' blah blah but didn't specifically reference cracking the eggs/removing the shell...

I wish I could remember more.

But then I can also remember being the teen with no common sense/impulse control. Once I opened the car door on the motorway because there was a spider. I turned out fine! Perfectly functioning adult :D

Stay strong everyone.

How was there commonsense rating before they became teenagers?

I went to see what the awful smell from our kitchen was yesterday. Found the 21yo about to make a quesadilla with the frying pan sitting on the highest setting on the hob with the oil smoking like crazy.

When I said it was way too hot and they were going to either burn their food or cause a fire I got a very dismissive "it's fine, I know what I'm doing" in response.