Ways of pranking (for want of a better word) teens?

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Maybe not pranking as such. Perhaps getting them to reluctantly crack a smile and feel a grudging admiration for their parents

I am feeling smug. This morning I logged into Netflix and changed all their profile names to suitably pet names. I am eagerly awaiting the reactions which will happen the minute they get to their bedrooms when they get home later. I was going to change the WiFi password to something similar but couldn't work out how to do it

Have also had success with waiting until they're asleep and changing their wallpaper on their phones. Sometimes to a picture of me

Anyone else have any ideas? We do like a bit of pranking in this house.

Sorry but I find pranking annoying and changing their wall paper/net flicks profile names will not crack a smile from them.

Changing the time of clocks etc was always a good one but I suspect might be less effective now phones are used for the time all the time.

Can you conspire with them to pull a big prank on your partner?

Hate pranks. V rarely funny. V often annoying and passive aggressive.

I appreciate your humour but my thirteen year old would not

I am not as funny as I think I am

Daughter appears to have had a humour bypass unless she instigates it

We don't do physical pranks, but we do sometimes wind each other up (only ever briefly, and never about anything important). The result of this is that I've ended up with quite skeptical children.

This morning one of the teenagers asked me what type of advent calendars they'd be having this year.

I told him that this year, instead of advent calendars, we'd decided to do something different and instead of chocolate or whatever, we'll be spending a quiet time each morning meditating.

I don't think DS believed me, but there remains the tiniest doubt in his mind.

We've actually bought them each a set of 24 hand-decorated iced gingerbread biscuits.

Husband came home from work (1.5 hours on tube and train followed by a cycle) and said that he thought his bag seemed much heavier than usual... opened it and found that a colleague had sneaked in a 5lb dumbbell!

Not really a prank but I get sick of repeatedly asking the kids to move their crap that they leave lying around.

If I have to ask more than once then I booby trap it - so half eaten bag of crisps gets squished to crumbs, can of pop - prick a couple of holes up near the top so when the go to drink from it, it dribbles down their chin, shoes left where I will trip up over them have a couple of pasta pieces put in the toes...then I turn the wifi off and yell them again and get them to move it.

I knew if i used the word "pranking" some people would be all humourless Maybe I should have said "joking around with my DC"?

Well I can report the 13 year old found the Netflix names very funny and we laughed a lot The others are older and still out so haven't seen it yet...

Yes we do conspire together to joke around with different family members, hiding and jumping out is popular especially when it's 6'6" DH folding himself into a wardrobe - yes we are probably very childish to some people. I do find it's a good way to get them to crack a smile. No doubt I will be judged as drip feeding (as well as passive aggressive and annoying ) but a couple of them have SN so are probably a bit "younger" than average.

Of course they have lots of surly moments and shruggy shoulders so I do like getting them to smile with us. Talking at them through the medium of the cat also works sometimes. Sometimes the cat texts them too, especially when their rooms are messy and the cat finds it distressing

I actually have my eye on a life size cut out of one of their favourite singers and debating buying it and putting it up secretly in their bedroom for Christmas morning.

Please do this especially if it's Rick Astley

Life sized cut out is great. You need to move it to different locations round the house but don't scare yourself....amhik

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