Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

Just wait....😁

I agree! Even my 7 year old has the sense to not do a lot of these things. It's worrying!

😂😂😂 the thought was there I suppose

This is actually concerning how little common sense your teenagers seem to have. My 7 year old seems more competent!

aka a toaster oven....😀

And a million 'best cooked rice EVER" hacks on tik tok, I bet! 😂
Does no one read the package directions anymore? 🤔😂

• Pouring grappa into a wound because alcohol is a disinfectant

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. It'll sting like hell, but if you don't have any actual disinfectant to hand it will do the job.

Teenagers are impulsive because the frontal cortex of their brains are in the process of pruning and rewiring connections.
It doesn’t matter that you taught them all that useful stuff in the preceding years, a thought will pop into their heads and they'll just do it before thinking it through.
It's not "the youth of today" it’s the youth of every era.

We had NDNTeen knock on the door asking for help because she'd washed up the chip fryer and it didn't work any more. We gently told her that putting an electrical fryer in a bowl of soapy water wouldn't have done it any favours, got her to leave it on a towel in the garden to dry out and told her not to try plugging it in for a couple of days.

When I was a student I made macaroni cheese with brandy butter. I didn't know what brandy butter was and assumed it was just brandy flavoured butter (as with garlic butter and herb butter). That was a culinary adventure!

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(i don't have one, i'm just tempted)

@Srepmum1984 I bought my son all new bedroom furniture when we moved into a new house. it was all on castors for easy moving. he didnt like the way i had laid it out so he moved it all and put his brand new bedside light on a tupperware box!! ffs! it was broken within 10 minutes!!! he was 12! my daughter was 16 when she decided to wash her new white converse in the washing machine, on a white wash! all the glue dissolved and shoes were no more!

LaPalmaLlama · Today 10:30

I sympathised over your lost stock last year, I think. I've done the same...

Last month, I emptied a pan of penne into the sink - neglecting to use a sieve.

It's quite rare for me to do things like that, honest!

Sorry to be that person…I don’t know if this has already been mentioned further down but I didn’t want to lose your post without mentioning this. You really shouldn’t do this anywhere else other than your own home. Lots of people have life threatening milk allergies and they wouldn’t expect a kettle to have had anything in it other than water. A good rinse would likely not be enough to remove all of the milk.

Asked daughter, then aged 13, to put the washing on the line. Omitted to say use clothes pegs. Ten minutes later they had fallen in the mud and had to be washed again!

What u need is sideways toasters clearly😄

Not enough to get the landlord in touch or lose the security deposit. I'm good.

My 15 yo has recently got into cooking, probably thanks to TikTok, which is fine and good and he is pretty good at it but he painstakenly fries one slice or bacon or one piece of chicken at the time and it's absolutely doing my head in. When asked he just says he is following the recipe. I don't make a big fuss of it and think the penny will drop one day. The bacon however is annoying as it stinks the kitchen out. (All the rest of us do our bacon in the microwave)

@tilypu

She HAS a bedside table! And multiple glasses cases. She's just a knob who thinks it's a good idea to put her glasses on the floor. She also has PDA and absolutely will not be told anything, and most definitely not by me. I am a glasses wearer myself and I put mine in the same safe place every night. I also remove my glasses before getting dressed and undressed to avoid damaging them if I'm pulling T-shirts and sweaters over my head. AD1(17) has worn glasses since she was a toddler and she STILL pulls sweatshirts over her head every day while wearing her glasses. She has been told repeatedly by her ophthalmologist, her optometrist and me. As I say, she is a knob of the first class order.

And has he broken them by standing on them three times since January because he's blind?

Ah, yes of course. My teen has one, and yet somehow his glasses often end up o free floor too…

Nope, you're not the only one with DC like this! FWIW, I HAVE taught my kids how to do the household chores, the basics for maintenance/cooking etc and that it's not a magic fairy that does the cooking, shopping, laundry, cleaning or takes out the rubbish. BUT....despite being taught, they (one a teen and one a tween) still sometimes act like this stuff is all a bloody revelation. I only hope that eventually what I've taught them will actually stick. It did with me and my siblings!

The thing with teenagers you can show or tell the HOW to do something but you can’t anticipate every ‘adaptation’ that they might come up with in their head!
So although my DS can ably do the laundry, when it came to what to use of there’s no detergent left and mum has expressly told him to wait for clothes to finish, put in drier AND put another load on before he could go meet friend…. Well, he got creative.
Rather than suffer my wrath or go to the shop and by more, he found another way… sort of.

And in no lesson regarding doing the laundry did I ever think to say to the kids ‘ oh but the way, if you ever think you should pop Fairy washing up liquid in with the clothes - please don’t’.

Ffs, get her a bedside table. They cost less than a pair of glasses.

I love a hapless teen. I've got 2 of my own. I hate the Mumsnet sector that insists they should leave home at 16 able to cook to cordon bleu standard, wash and iron like the Swiss laundry etc etc etc. I'm all for letting kids pick stuff up as they go along, with a few blunders, because you should let them live their own life, and have a few laughs as they grow up. No one taught me how to cook or clean or wash - the fun of life was learning this for myself.

In fairness, I once asked DH to peel potatoes so I could make mash when I got home.

Got home to very brown, peeled (and uncut) potatoes in a pan with no water in it.

Apparently he didn't know that you were supposed to leave them in water to stop them from going brown. He was 45!

I very much blame his mother for that one in the beginning but now shoulder a lot of the responsibility for not forcing him to do more cooking!

Another time I asked him to peel and cut the potatoes into cubes so I could do my air fried roasted potatoes. He's had them multiple times so knows what they look like. Walked in and found him cutting the potatoes into the smallest cubes! Literally about 5mm square (they were quite precise and even!). He was most insulted by my "what on earth are you doing?".

At least he was putting them in water this time though, so he's learning - one mistake at a time!

(No, common sense is not his forte!)

Not just teenagers unfortunately as grown adults do some pretty stupid things! Professional adults at my work putting foil in the microwave causing it to catch fire, continuing to use an already blocked to the top toilet…