to present teenaged DSs & their guests with laminated list of houserules?

[cheapskatemum]

I haven't actually done this yet, but am seriously considering it having found:
2 beer bottles & duvet in living room
bedroom windows open (I've got the heating on)
snacks ravaged (after proper meals have been declined)
I'll think of more - these are just the tip of the iceberg! Feel free to add your gripes...

YABU. You mustn't laminate it; how will you add rules?

Laminated with a caveat about new rules if needed.

I have a three year old, I need the same. First would be... Don't hit me with any animals, even if it is just because you love me.

So much nastiness about teenagers around this place!

Sounds like they are just enjoying themselves

Pointeshoes, do you have teenaged DCs, may I ask? I have 4 (technically DS1 is 20yo). I am not enjoying this Christmas holiday so far! Point taken about laminating

Why shouldn't teenagers be polite? I don't think it's anti-teenager to include them in this.

I have bought DD an iPod touch for Christmas and have prepared a set of rules for use which I may laminate.

Perhaps they think they're being polite when they say, no they're really not hungry when I'm making breakfast/lunch/dinner, but it really pisses me off then to find that all the snack bars, crisps etc are gone, 2 hours later. At least now school term's finished, i won't need them for packed lunches so just won't buy any more.

My house is full of teenagers - I turned into raging bitch mother from hell yesterday - today all is calm and I am hoping they got the message and it stays that way! But just in case I think the laminated list of rules is a fab idea!

Thanks desertmum, glad it's not just me. I'm trying to pre-empt the raging bitch mother from Hell stage. DH returns late tonight from a week's business trip. He will go straight into male equivalent when he sees the beer bottles & duvet & the DS & girlfriend responsible have gone out.

Abiroad - just noticed your post - do copy & paste!

Another rule!

If you sleepover, it is essential you get up before lunchtime!

YANBU, but need a sharpie to add rules once it is laminated!

MammaTJ - it would be nice to know who's in the house in order to enforce that one!

Drank beer, sat under a duvet, ate snacks, opened windows?! Delinquents! They should be flogged and put in stocks! It's like they live there too or something, worra cheek!!!

Bet they can't wait to spend Christmas with you. You sound like bags of fun.

SleepOhHowIMissYou, I ask you the same question I asked Pointeshoes: do you have teenaged DCs?

Are you having a go at op, SleepOhHowIMissYou?

Only its difficult to tell on the internet sometimes. You could just be playing along with the op and her obviously lighthearted thread, or you could be being a massively arsey twat. I was just wondering which it is.

Thanks Mintyy, I sometimes forget to factor in irony.

How dare you joke about setting rules in your own house OP, you clearly hate all teenagers.

FFS, twat off twats.

I would be tempted to prepare a small PowerPoint presentation and make them sit through it EVERY time they come round. They'll soon start knocking about in someone else's house

No no no.

It's not the drinking beer - its the leaving the bottles lying.

Likewise the duvet.

Opening the windows is expensive if you have the heating on.

Eating all the snacks is just rude.

It's about showing respect for the house and the householder and I don't think that's too much to ask from anyone whatever age they are.

YABU unless you're going to send all MN parents of teenagers a copy.

It's about showing respect for the house and the householder and I don't think that's too much to ask from anyone whatever age they are.

This ^^

I like the idea of a pp show too

*Mum of one teenager and one ex-teenager.

Ooh I don't know!

No dog ends on the patio
No dirty pants left on bathroom floor
If you make a bacon sarnie at 11, I don't expect to find the pack of bacon left on the counter
Don't drink from the juice carton and put it back in the fridge
If there's no petrol in year car, don't ask to use mine
If you use the last of the milk/bead - tell me.
Do NOT wake me up at 3 am.
When you come in at 3am do NOT shut year door when there is a cat in the room - I get up to let him out at 5.30 am.

Am sure I can think up a few more :)

But I luffs them

PMSL Tweasels, that will stretch me to the limit of my IT skills, but I think it'll worth it.

It'll BE worth it

OP, yes I do.

Mintyy, maybe I'm irony challenged, or maybe I'm a massive arsey twat as you suggest. However, calling a stranger on the internet a massive arsey twat is massively arsey and twattish in itself, and also gloriously ironic too don't you think?

Here's a sarcasm sign to avoid future confusion.
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