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How have you embarrassed your teenage children today?

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/04/2019 16:48

I have been drying some fleece in the garden that I washed (I do spinning) and was resting from my labours when 13yo dd came back with a friend.
As they went past the hammock I heard her mutter, 'Just don't ask why there are big piles of wool in our garden, pretend they're not there.'

How have you embarrassed your teenage dcs today?

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Beachbodynowayready · 30/04/2019 16:51

I tickled my ds 17 with a spider catcher - he told me to grow up!
Says him who needed his dm to de-spider his room!

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 30/04/2019 17:17

Awww!

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flitwit99 · 30/04/2019 17:53

I reminded mine (in front of his friend) that he had left his packed lunch in the kitchen. I am so embarrassing. He would rather have starved.

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Kingslayer · 30/04/2019 17:57

I breathed.

DeRigueurMortis · 30/04/2019 17:58

I picked him up from school in the wrong car...mine as opposed to DH's....

elephantoverthehill · 30/04/2019 18:01

I passed my Dd a note during a lesson.

TinselAndKnickers · 30/04/2019 18:03

Not my child, but my brother who's friend is round and I dared to ask if they wanted orange or blackcurrant squash.

whiskeysourpuss · 30/04/2019 18:10

I phoned DD2 to ask how her exam went this afternoon & she was having coffee (with a boy) so now that's apparently over because he won't be interested in her because her mother is an annoying, nosey old bag gives a shit about her education.

She thinks she did ok though Grin

Emilydickensonsdogs · 30/04/2019 18:13

I said hello to one of his friends at school pick up. I have known his friend for 5 years and they are both 11. Apparently I am the only parent that ever says hello to ‘people’.

AGoodWench · 30/04/2019 18:16

I expressed an independent opinion.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 30/04/2019 18:22

I keep watching the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer and they think it's 'lame' that I'm so excited to see it.

You can take the girl out of the 90s, but...

washinglions · 30/04/2019 18:28

OMG. I opened this thread to comment, and then I remembered. My youngest was 20 last week so I don't have any teenagers in the house any more Shock

BadHairDyeDay · 30/04/2019 18:31

I took 16yo DD for a nice mother/daughter coffee to give her a well earned break from GCSE revision . After 20 minutes of waiting to be served I gently reminded the waitress that we had yet to order.
Well. Apparently that's the rudest thing ever! You just don't DO that! DD will never be able to go back to that coffee shop! I think we were supposed to just sit there with no coffee or something 🤷‍♀️

BBInGinDrinking · 30/04/2019 18:34

Let me count the ways....

Springersrock · 30/04/2019 18:41

I made her maths tutor a cup of tea

I put some washing on earlier which launched into it’s full on spin while I was making the tutor the aforementioned cup of tea

I forgot to leave his money out on the table so had to give it to him as he was leaving

All completely embarrassing apparently Confused

This is the maths tutor she needs because she acted like a total wally during year 10 and 11 and failed her GCSE

snowdrop6 · 30/04/2019 18:41

His friend was running to our house..I walked past him and said ..cor your hot .🤦‍♀️..I meant hot with running ....
But that’s nothing compared to going to pick up ds age 16 from town at gone midnight ,I was in bed and not best pleased to have to get him...
I parked up,he didn’t come over ,so I go out of the car to get him in my pjs and slippers ..no bra ..not a good look,I’ve never seen him move so fast when he saw me coming over to his group of people😅😅

WheelyCote · 30/04/2019 18:43

I shouted him down for food

PlatinumBrunette · 30/04/2019 18:44

I used ‘woke’ in context and in a sentence. No friends were hurt in the process.
I usually dance in shops 😆

WheelyCote · 30/04/2019 18:46

On sunday i left a few quid out for them to get some milk, bread and crisps from shop while i was at work.

One of the pound coins was an old coin. I got a lecture when i got in

SheeshKebab · 30/04/2019 18:56

My DS is only 6 months but one of my favourite things is the ways in which parents can embarrass their teens so I'm shamelessly placemarking😏

MrsTaytodarling · 30/04/2019 20:28

MADE her go to school with a knot in her hair....Shock

AnneTwackie · 30/04/2019 20:31

I sang the whole of Taylor Swift ‘Oh darlin’ don’t you ever grow up’ in the multi-storey car park because she was being a dick.

DanFmDorking · 30/04/2019 21:01

This isn’t the first Have you embarrassed your teenage children today? on MN.

I enjoy them all and indeed copy ‘n’ paste the good ones and er, share them with friends

I remember this one from a year or so ago but to my shame I didn’t note the poster’s name.

The first time I bought my new bf home from Uni my DMum had mistimed when we would be arriving. She was in the front garden cleaning up dog poo with a spade wearing yeti slippers and, for reasons lost in the mists of time, a horror Mr Punch mask on the back of her head with the elastic under her nose.
^Why he didn't run until he reached the coast then I’ll never know....
Reader, I married him - so it is entirely his fault if he ends up with a batty wife. He had his chance to escape...^

and this …

Knew my DD and friend had sneaked off into town to go to a nightclub, at the time they were only 15 wearing dresses which were shorter than their fluffy boas they wore.
I went down and phoned the club to put out over the microphone her name and that her mum was waiting outside for them.
They both told me I had ruined their lives for humiliating them!
Now she’s 27, a teacher she laughs about it and how could she have behaved like that! Like mother like daughter!

Lessstressedhemum · 30/04/2019 21:54

I ask DS (16) if he had remembered to get new pants in front of the pretty checkout girl in Primary😂

Lessstressedhemum · 30/04/2019 21:54

Primark, obviously.