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Why do teens choose to boil alive?🥵

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 19/07/2021 12:02

My teen is in her room,

Black out blind down, window closed, normal blind down. She’s under the covers in a hoodie.

‘It’s not that hot in here’😬

I couldn’t stay in it…

OP posts:
EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 19/07/2021 14:49

Not just teens. My 10 year old is the same. Always in a black hoody, never wears shorts. He also never wears a coat even when it's bloody freezing

Mercedes519 · 19/07/2021 14:49

DS left for school this morning.

Wearing his coat
Over his blazer
Over a pale blue polyester school shirt

You can imagine what it's like when he gets home and takes it off...
As for many others the suggestion he doesn't need his coat is met with derision. I too believe it's the pockets...

CagneyNYPD · 19/07/2021 14:51

Ds13 was about to head out to meet friends earlier. Comes down wearing a t shirt and trackie bottoms. It's roasting. I tell him to put shorts on. He comes down wearing shorts, t shirt and a hoodie. No idea.

CagneyNYPD · 19/07/2021 14:51

Yes, it definitely is the pockets. DS manages his life in his pockets.

Howcanthisbe123 · 19/07/2021 14:52

Leggings and a hoody, come winter strolls downstairs in small shorts and a crop top....I just give up!

elfycat · 19/07/2021 14:54

DD1 (12) keeps wearing her parka to school. I melt just thinking about it. She also sits in the dark room of broiling doom, particularly since her room is in a loft conversion and it's very warm. There are windows both ends of her room so she could have a through-breeze but no...

Last night she slept wrapped up in a very fluffy throw, admittedly on the sofa downstairs where it is cooler. Thank goodness as the night before she tried snuggling up to me.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 19/07/2021 14:54

Please meet my dh. He looked at me gone out when I suggested wearing shorts and trainers instead of cargo pants and Cat boots.

WeAllHaveWings · 19/07/2021 14:55

@BarefootHippieChick

My 17 year old is the same. Room is like an oven and she refuses to have her window open, because, you know, creepy crawlies 😒 She even carts her leather jacket with her in 30° heat, because, you know, fashion....I was never like that (cough)....
Mines was the same, wouldn't open the window because flies/little moths flew in and in his small room with the heat from his 42" TV, playstation, laptop etc it was like a sauna.

Got him a fly screen for his window last week and makes a huge difference as he leaves his window open day and night now.

TeeBee · 19/07/2021 14:56

Mine don't! They're living in board shorts and tshirts...and leave their fans on constantly. However they are spending most days at the beach at the moment...that I find waaaay too hot.

Hellocatshome · 19/07/2021 14:56

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow my DH always wears his coat (for the pockets) he tried to cross the border from Mexico to Texas (whilst working over there) in 40 degree heat, he was most upset to be the only one of his group strip searched and couldn't understand why they thought he was suspicious Hmm

AlfonsoTheMango · 19/07/2021 14:58

Teenagers! They do make me laugh.

MrsDThomas · 19/07/2021 14:59

Its a teen thing . Im out sunbathing with the girls , DS in his room in the PS

Really nothing to worry about

newlabelwriter · 19/07/2021 15:00

The pockets! oh yes - DD was talking about those whilst wearing her coat over blazer, jumper, shirt and t-shirt!

MaintainingPositivity · 19/07/2021 15:02

Glad it's just mine then Hmm

Just had to bribe him to get a shower, no shower lose the WiFi, he did eventually get in and has now been in there about half an hour, ffs.

I'd rather have a toddler at least I could pop them in the bath and they'd be in bed at 7, or even earlier. My biggest mistake was teaching him the time and to speak WinkGrin

EndoplasmicReticulum · 19/07/2021 15:04

When my grumpy teen was small he wouldn't wear a coat.
Now he refuses shorts, wears jeans / hoody / trainers and it's bloody hot out there.

Currently gaming, in very hot room.
Contrary is about right.

PrettyLittleFlies · 19/07/2021 15:06

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

It’s a thermal black out blind. Its not making it cooler!
But it is. Thermal black out window treatments reduce heat transferred by window by about a quarter. They also reduce the cold transferred. That's what thermal insulation does.
MTTL · 19/07/2021 15:10

The kids at school resolutely wore hoodies under their black puffs jackets on mufti day on Friday...it was at least 28 degrees. Teenagers are just weird.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 19/07/2021 15:19

At my last place, we didn't say a word to the new kids, as many of them had come from countries which were significantly hotter than our piffling little 30 Celsius, but we secretly judged the ones who had at the least been living in the UK for a minimum of 12 years if not from birth and came in wearing shiny puffas that made them look - and smell - as though they were wearing a well padded binbag. Obviously, those with a very low BMI were also kept an eye on and SG reports made in case it was ED or SH related, but when there was no reason other than it's a £250 coat and I want everybody to know I've got a £250 coat (that I shouldn't be wearing because it's not part of uniform and some cunt will steal off me at knifepoint on the way home if they get half a chance), fuck's sake.

And then there were the girls. Skirts up their arses (as in actually exposing them when walking, never mind sitting), no tights, no scarves, just little pumps and dolly shoes when there was two foot of snow on the ground, but try and open a window in summer and they'd kick up a stink (which was what we were trying to get rid of) and their parents would complain we were giving them hypothermia.

None of this stops my current place having kids wearing t-shirts under shirts, jumpers, blazers and coats (plus a shawl sized scarf that isn't uniform in any shape or form and giant fabric hairbands that cover their foreheads and entire front half of their heads), not drinking any water and then complaining they have a headache and want to go home, either. I'm sorry, you've put on the entire winter uniform list in July, added extras, not taken in any fluids and then put something on your head to prevent any heat loss, refuse to take any of it off - and you're complaining you don't feel well and want me to drag your Mum out of work to come and get you whilst being totally sympathetic to your self inflicted predicament?

It's as ridiculous as the oh, so very wacky, men who think they're being amusing by wearing Hawaiian print board shorts and flip flops in January and every important event for their wives, when it's clear they wear a suit every day when it matters for their career.

Vintagevixen · 19/07/2021 15:26

This thread is very timely - I have just dragged my 13 year old out from under a 10 TOG duvet!!

Just made her get in the shower - going to face the sheets soon which no doubt stink and will put them in the wash.

She literally said to me "it was quite cool under the duvet" - I mean WTF!!!!!!

Talia99 · 19/07/2021 15:27

Providing it’s cooler inside than out, thermal blinds / blackout curtains are ideal heat wise in this weather as they keep the heat out.

I’ve been airing out the house first thing (when it’s cooler out) then closing all the windows and drawing most of the blinds / curtains and it’s currently 24 inside and 29 outside.

Over the weekend when I had the blackout curtains drawn in the room I work in (I have opened them today as I don’t want to work in a cave), I managed to keep it at 23 inside.

Of course, if it’s 32 inside and 28 outside, this is standard teenage behaviour and what previous posters have said goes.

ragged · 19/07/2021 15:32

DS17 broke down & demanded I buy him, and then he instantly wore, shorts yesterday. He had worn LS shirt & full jeans every day of 2021 so far, before that. Has even said he might try on the sandals in next few days.

Stroopwaffle5000 · 19/07/2021 15:40

As a teen I would spend all day every day sunbathing, coated in baby oil which I don't think is any better 🤣 🤦🏼‍♀️At least I had an amazing tan though 😳

FedNlanders · 19/07/2021 15:44

Mine are in rooms, window shut and dressing gowns on. Madness

Chickoletta · 19/07/2021 15:45

Probably because she’s just being contrary. But, as a PP had said, this can be a red flag for disordered eating and/or self harm. How is her mood?

Sorry to put a downer on this if it was intended to be light hearted but I work extensively with teens with MH issues and this would concern me a bit.

Comedycook · 19/07/2021 15:47

My ds still put his school jumper on under his blazer today... because every other kid in his school does