To wander round in bra and pants with wet hair?

[Scissor]

Of course I'll drop all the towels I've been using on the floor and leave a half eaten bowl of coagulating cereal next to the sink. Having great fun staying at my daughter's first proper flat and she has a fab sense of humour. What else could I do?

Wonderful. Get your DC before they leave home to sign a permission slip allowing you and your friends to call in anytime at their place unannounced and spend the night there.

Every time you want a drink take a clean glass out. Leave the used glass where it stands, under NO circumstances are you to rinse and reuse your current glass!

I just sent a link of this thread this to DD2. She replied with a crying laughing emoji and “ this is all so DD1 ! “

Um, no.

I really want to do the orange juice in champagne flute. Am currently sitting separately on the bus because I'm too warm and she's wearing clothes that make me feel hot. We have had a really lovely lunch and I'll be taking her out for dinner later.. She is .. to give you all hope.. completely grown up and out the other side. Though she's started getting curious about why I'm giggling on the phone. I only have tomorrow left

Leave all dirty dishes by the side of the sink, and all dirty clothes on the floor by the washing machine. Leave your shoes in the middle of the hall so she will fall over them. Borrow her best trainers and run through mud ( looking at you DD2!). Leave snotty tissues and bits of toilet roll on the sofa ( looking at you DD1). Finish off her wine and then say "For God's sake, its only wine!!" . Leave wet towels on bathroom floor. Fill all plugholes with hair.

And we've had a really in depth conversation about why I only wanted the £1.40 330ml bottle of drink as opposed to her idea to get 1 litre of the exact same drink for 90p and share.

I expect the penicillin mug has been fine to death already on this thread.

Sit on the settee taking numerous selfies of a variety of expressions and then shout "What?" we she looks over wondering why you're doing that.

Tie yourself to something with a shoelace, & demand she untie you. Or, lassoo her.

I might now lie inconveniently on various parts of the floor with my hair spread artfully while I take selfies and moan about the light

At first I found this thread funny, certainly love the OP's sense of humour bur,
no-one would have behaved like this back in my day.......our parents would have killed us.

is it really ok for teens to be so outrageous and selfish towards their own families?

Do they ever become "normal" people or do they remain selfish and demanding?

I love my dd1 immensely she is kind, thoughtful, funny and really good company. She's also done almost everything on this thread so go figure.

goldfinchfan really? I think the stroppy teen trope has pretty much been a truism for decades, hence the popularity of Kevin and Perry because everyone recognised the type. I think teens are generally just self-centred and not very self-aware, as well as being completely embarrassed by their parents' very existence. I thought it was just an accepted fact of life that they're messy and moody, and that they grow out of it when they have a bit more life experience and realise that the world doesn't revolve around them.

no-one would have behaved like this back in my day.

I definitely behaved selfishly as a teenager. And that was a long time ago.

I've loved this thread, my teens got up to a few of these. What makes it funny to me is that 90% of the time they were/are so lovely, with just the occasional bit of madness to remind you it was good that they would eventually grow up and move out. Now we can look back together and joke about it.

goldfinch I’m sure I’m not the only one who could list plenty of lovely things about their teen or share situations they did things we are insanely proud of them for. But it wouldn’t be as funny.

Do they ever become "normal" people or do they remain selfish and demanding?

Yep but mine now also moans about me wasting his petrol if I put the aircon on high in his car.

I remember my dad saying that when I had my own house he'd come and bounce around on all the furniture, leave his shoes lying around etc. The first time he walked into my new house, He did just that.

katewhineslot mine did too

katewhinealot my dad I mean, my ds is 11 and tells me it’s better for the environment to open a window than use air con

Drink a couple of bottles of rose, stagger in at 2am and puke pink vomit all over the cream carpet/wall whilst simultaneously crying and laughing hysterically.

Do they ever become "normal" people or do they remain selfish and demanding?

Yep, they do. In fact about a year after DS1 moved into his own place, he brought DH and I a nice bottle of wine and said "Thanks for teaching me how to be an adult" or words to that effect. He also said "I know you've been waiting for this so.....You told me so and you were right!!". Made us laugh.

We're still working on DS2.

Do they ever become "normal" people or do they remain selfish and demanding?

I can confirm that once they have their own place it's like someone flicked a switch. Daughter now moans her fiancé is untidy, oh the irony . We recently visited and stayed with son who lives on the other side of the world and he's completely domesticated. Cleaning, laundry cooking the lot. Huge change from the horrendous party animal who took advantage of our good nature when we let him stay rent free in a flat we owned. He is now horrified by his behaviour! Both are now respectable human beings. Can't wait until they have kids of their own, that will be fun!

Am currently sitting separately on the bus because I'm too warm and she's wearing clothes that make me feel hot.

Scissor - you're a natural

This is the best thread