To think the point of having children is so you can have them make you cups of tea?

[DonnyAndVladSittingInATree]

My 12 year old didn’t get that memo apparently who do I complain to about this faulty product?

That makes sense donny

Ha this thread reminded me of sat and sun mornings as a kid where dad or mum would dial a number on the landline in their room and hang up so it would ring downstairs, then order tea. I guess parents can just text their orders now. Its one reason to get your kids a mobile.

Tea? I’m training the 2 year old to iron. She needs to earn her keep. Tea is for wimps.

There is a reason China has so many people and so much tea.

My Dad still says to me 'Is that the kettle I can smell boiling?'

My dad doesn’t trust me to make tea because I don’t drink it I did learn how to make it aged 30 when I dated a tea drinker, but only how she liked it. I have also made very weak milky tea for Brownies at pack holiday. Oh and once made tea for some judges at an event! I think those unfortunate judges had my first ever cups of tea and I just hoped terrible tea wouldn’t make them fail the kids they were judging.

As a teenager I learned to make coffee how my mum likes it because I like the smell of coffee even though I don’t drink it. I don’t make it for anyone else.

At pack holidays I sip Diet Coke from a mug (until someone thinks it’s cold coffee and throws it away). I don’t get involved in hot drinks rounds because I am rubbish at making them and everyone is so particular about how they have their drink and it’s too much pressure. I’m happy to stay rubbish at it.

My eldest DS turns 18 in a weeks time. Sending him to the offy to buy a bottle of wine sounds a great idea!

With nagging, they will change duvet covers, hoover, wash up etc.

I have banned DS from making tea because I don't know what he does wrong but it is undrinkable and he leaves the teabag on the side and spills sugar and a little splash of milk every fucking time.

Today DS1 (13);

Hoovered and mopped the playroom floor.
Hoovered the living room
Put his clothes in the washing basket
Took the dogs for a walk

No eye rolling, no muttering. I think that he might be unwell.

Clearly you have an exceptionally smart son, Sparkly. I bet he's mysteriously rubbish at washing up, too, isn't he?

I've been married to my American husband for almost 33 years and he still can't make a decent cup of tea! No way am I drinking anything the kids think is tea...

I have banned DS from making tea because I don't know what he does wrong but it is undrinkable and he leaves the teabag on the side and spills sugar and a little splash of milk every fucking time.

You know he isn’t doing it badly on purpose right?

Precisely this

Sorry, he is doing it badly on purpose.

Yep - that's what children for... and catching big hairy spiders !

My DD tried to make me a cup of tea but wasn't sure whether I actually wanted tea or coffee, so she made both. . . . . In the same cup

Fetching things and taking the blame (who ate that whole bar of green and blacks?).

DS does make me a nice cuppa without prompt when I get home (to distract me from asking about homework and the state of his bedroom I suspect).

He's a good kid. If I can just get him trained on the hoover...

DD (9) still finds tea making a novelty, so she's frequently offering to make me one. She makes a cracking cuppa too. It was a long game but it's coming good (just before the raging hormones are let loose and it all goes horribly bad).

Also handy for fetching kitchen roll that's stored upstairs

My 4yo likes to hoover (strange child). He actually believes it’s a reward for good behaviour, so much so that he’s been known to say “mummy I been a good boy, can I get hoover out?” He’ll actually do the whole living room if I just leave him to it. DH says it’s child labour and one step from making him go up chimneys

Yabu. This is mumsnet where someone will be along to suggest 'phoning ss because 12 is far too young to be going near a kettle.

When dd was about 4 I was feeling off one day and she volunteered to get me a drink. I assumed she would get water, but instead proudly came back with a coffee made from grounds and water from the cold tap in the bath, because she knew she wasn't allowed to touch the kettle or climb up to reach the canisters on the unit without a grown up. Drinking that on an already churning stomach, and a smile on my face was a challenge I don't want to ever repeat.

Sod the tea, I'm waiting for mine to be old enough to make a G&T!

Yanbu. I've got a lidded thermal mug so they can bring it upstairs to me without spilling it.

When we used to moan to my dad that he was just lazy he'd say "why have a dog and bark yourself"

YABU. A 12 year old making tea?! Why is said child not still in bubble wrap?

My 2 year old brings me the post. It's great.. on the odd occasion she doesn't open it before I do. She's worse than a dog!