Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

Sorry it might not go away with age. Looks at husband who melted bee's wax that had paraffin wax in it in the microwave. 2 foot sheet of flame and re-decorated wall

What has the world come to when (I assume) an adult doesn’t know the difference between as and has

I hope you told her which arm! (DS15 asked)

Yes dear.

OMG! You actually quoted the DM as your source for accurate factual information.

I didn’t really believe that gullible people like you existed until now.

Every day’s a school day! 😂😂

Seconded.

One good reason why teenagers may be without good manners could be that they did not learn those good behaviors from childhood either because their parents were keen on making more money and the children missed out in daycare. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). A 2-parent home is biblically the right environment to raise children. A mother is the greatest caretaker of the home; therefore, she should not be absent from the home until the kids are grown up. Everyone in the world, whether a genius or anyone making contributions, one way or the other, passed through a woman. Anyhow, a husband minded man should be the one chosen by a woman who is going to have children oar a child.

@AnnoyedAsAllHeck , You reminded me pf one of my early teenage cooking disasters. Muesli was a new product to the UK market, imported from Europe. As is common with such products, recipe suggestions are included, incorporating said product, to encourage their wider use, and I wanted to try making muesli cake.. My DM was happy to let me develop my independent cooking skills, and as per usual, helped me gather ingredients then left me to it.
The metric system was hardly used back in the day, so the manufacturers had helpfully translated the recipe from the original German/metric into English/imperial, including "1 tbsp. baking powder".
I had done enough home baking to know about adding baking powder to plain flour to make things rise, but lacked the experience, or common sense, to twig that the translator had confused "1 tsp" for "1 tbsp"........it rose all right!
DM kept calm about the mess and the waste of ingredients, but I received a practical lesson on Ovens and How They Are Deep Cleaned.

I don't think anyone has said previous generations of teenagers were superior other than you. People have used examples of when they were teens and they or their friends did silly things.

Yeah quite. Why are people so openly admitting that their parenting has been so rubbish, almost proudly?

The reason they don't know this stuff is because you haven't told them or show them.

Try and remember back in the day when you didn't know stuff. Or maybe you did know it all, as your parents did a better job. Or maybe you came out of the womb as a perfectly formed 45 year old. Or maybe your generation were automatically superior. Which do you think applies?

My DD (now in her 20s) thought the hoover had a volume dial. She absolutely could not accept that it's actual function was to increase/decrease the suction, and used to wonder plaintively why I insisted on "hoovering at full volume" 🤣

Obviously she would turn it down to its lowest setting when she hoovered, and then not understand there was still cat hair everywhere

I can totally see my almost 12 year old heading the same way, she's quite competent but she already complains "but you never told me that!" whenever she does something without thinking it through. Cannot wait to see what she'll be up to in the next few years!
I was going to but a new toaster soon, but after reading this thread I think I'll wait until the old one has been put out of its misery first! 😂

I’m 36 and hate phoning anyone lol if I could text the dr for an appointment I would 😂 but it is a good idea for the younger generations who haven’t grown up using the phone for calling people

I blame the parents.

Dd is 19 now but when she was about 16 I came downstairs to a strange smell and she was cooking instant noodles in the microwave with no water added?! I asked why she had not thought to read instructions and she just shrugged her shoulders 🙄

ConnieHeart, I used to work for a big insurance company, they aren't keen on paying out, and if they do you can rest assured they will increase the premiums big time.

There was a comment upthread that one of these posters had got ‘halfway across the world’ on her high horse !!

So why were you still reading??! Obviously still entertaining you otherwise you’d moved on your negativity to another thread!

why do some people just enjoy sucking the joy out of light hearted threads?!

These are making me laugh! I thought I'd done a pretty good job of teaching dd life skills before sending her off to uni, but got a text from her on day 2 "I'm trying to get a bus, but they keep not stopping." I guess I forgot to tell her to put her arm out!
I do still get texts from both my girls at uni of the "how long will I cook this for?" Or "can I eat this (green) potato?)
And just watched teenage ds make pasta tonight with hot water from the tap (because apparently boiling the kettle is a huge effort..)

But sometimes you have to learn by experimenting! Teenage me at uni managed to start a fire and a flood at the same time- went out shopping and brought back steak pie and ice cream. Put pie in oven, went to put ice cream in freezer, discovered it completely iced over. Spent next hour trying to defrost it (a fish slice and a cheese grater were employed, I believe) When I came in from air I realised kitchen was full of smoke, steak pie on fire! Threw it out of the window in a panic, went around opening windows etc, slipped in massive pool of water from half defrosted freezer and landed on the cheese grater!
I promise, I am generally quite competent these days!

When my son went to uni there was hirlmin his boom who would cook full Sunday lunch twice a month. She charged everyone and made a canny little profit! Everyone happy all round!

That's because your 10 year old isn't a teenager, duh.

Teenage me + a minibus full of friends set off on a camping trip from the south coast, back in the olden days before smartphones. We got as far as Birmingham before we realised the driver had no idea where he was going. I had to phone my parents to ask how to get to Wales. They were incredulous ("turn left!") but got out their trusty A-Z to locate us and give us directions to Snowdonia. Where we also got lost coming down the mountain

That's horrific, that poor man. Our switchboard had been installed the day before so it was the latest and greatest but the electrician forgot a bit. We never got so much as an apology either!

Missing the point of the thread entirely, I know, but the ‘what three words’ app essentially does this too — globally. It’s great!