Tell me about your teenager's stupid behaviour

[TeenagedTwit]

16yo
Wants a job. Apparently.
Weirdly, a job hasn't fluttered into his bedroom and landed on his lap so he is most perplexed.

Picked up an application form for him from a local supermarket.
Encourage him to get a pen (no easy feat) and sit down to complete application.

20 seconds later... "What's my name?"

And that was just the beginning. I swear a 4yo would make a better employee. I fear for our future.

Note from MNHQ - we've edited the title as we had a few reports about one of the terms used there. We're sure there was no intention to offend but it was clearly upsetting a few people and we didn't want the issue to derail the thread

I'm also intrigued to know when MN decided that "moronic" was an acceptable word to use. That word would have got a thread deleted not long ago.

That’s marginally more helpful than my 19-year-old DS’s default answer to everything: ‘Fine’.

Not sure what's more amusing - the daft teenagers (I have two, and this thread has cracked me up), or the posters who just don't get it cos their kids are still little 😂😂

DD2 managed to break her finger by closing a drawer on it in the kitchen. She was 15 and we were out when it happened. DS1 helpfully demonstrated for us what happened. And broke his finger in doing so…

”Mind your finger” still gets said frequently in this house.

This thread is about moronic behaviour from teenagers and I think that posters are more than aware how stupid their teens actions were / are .Why are some posters trying to parent shame others or state they don't believe the poster. It's like some just want a spat .

My nephew recently decided he was now a girl, and is absolutely ademament that the bullshit thicktoks he watches are right and he now, can in fact, have a man period. FML.

Really ? It's hilarious

I once got a call from my teenage DD (and my husband) asking how to switch on the oven in his work's serviced apartment. In Frankfurt.

My very clever son can only recite the alphabet if he sings the song version, he’s nineteen 🤦‍♀️

It's literally in the title! and was (mostly) fun. I had such a good laugh.

Then you have comments like this

Perhaps not the intention, but I'm going to save this thread for whenever a bout of broodiness threatens to overcome my firm decision to not have children.

Like why? It's the equivalent of me going on the MNers without children board and saying who will look after you when you're old since you don't have children

Friend’s clever son with phd in maths and pursuing a career as an academic, tried to catch their whippet by running after it.

How would you stop your son from vaping?

I do agree about banning it, except for specific medicinal use.

I left home at 15 so I had to soldier through many things without assistance.

I used to wash up without any washing liquid by holding things with two fingers very gingerly under the tap until it had sort of jet washed clean. It took literally forever.

I didn't know what to do with sausages so I cooked them in the microwave and then ate the hot paste.

One of my main priorities was cigarettes so the bulk of my measly income went on that.

Second most important thing in the early days was chips.

Never ever used to wash my clothes. Definitely didn't wash bed sheets.

I used to go out to parties with no idea how to get home. I ended up crying in the snow one New Year's Day. I had no one to call to help so eventually I walked several miles home without a coat.

I'd regularly start small kitchen fires.

I was once so hungry, I ate half a Mars Bar I found on top of a bin. I vividly remember crying into a bowl of beans because that was all I could afford. I ate that, tears and all.

I'd go to any random person's house and take whatever substance was on offer. Not in moderate amounts either so I'd frequently end up hallucinating, or dancing in a graveyard at 4am, or getting on top of flat bed vehicles for a laugh, followed by ending up so ill I couldn't move for days so I'd just lie there hungry, thirsty, and feeling like I wanted to die until I managed to crawl to a shop for a Double Decker for sustenance.

There are loads more. God knows how I survived into adulthood.

Step son lived with us for a while and we used to let him eat his dinner in his bedroom, found out he'd hidden chicken balls from the Chinese down the back of his bed 🤣🤣🙄🙄 we were baffled and laughed it off as he was saving it as a midnight snack 😉😜

You don't have teenagers, do you?

Oh pull yourself together!

I think you missed the point of this thread.

I had my share of dopey moments as a teenager myself. (I still have a tendency to take instructions rather literally, often asking for the most bizarre details; I wonder if I’m ND).

I once turned up to a weekend school play rehearsal in my school uniform 😳and on another occasion, instead of finding the orange and grapefruit squash my mum had put in the cupboard, I mixed myself a beaker full of half orange, half grapefruit juice. I don’t think cocktails were quite what she had in mind!

I'd expect most 11 year olds to be able to do this as well.

Teenagers are exasperating in their abilities to unlearn stuff.

Don't be too quick to call people bad parents.

DS went to a grant maintained school and asked his teacher who was grant and why was he responsible for maintaining the school?

Both my dds and my DH do this. Why they can't look on their own phones and check the weather app is beyond me. Clearly I just know the weather report everyday without actually checking the weather app. 😶

Agree. My kids have shown all kinds of silly stupidity. But these examples are another level. I would be quite worried if my kids thought this was normal or acceptable behaviour.

@willowtalk well good for you, controlling your children when they aren’t at home. Ban what you like - they won’t give a stuff about your rules when they’re with their mates.

We wrote on our tumbler ‘tumble drier’ and ‘washing machine’ on the other after child #2 had put dirty clothes in the tumbler and was surprised that they didn’t come out clean.

An earlier post hinted that this whole topic was a little cruel.

It’s a survival technique! We have friends who married late, no children. They don’t quite get it when we and another couple joke about our adult children and their teenage years.

Agreed.
I score full marks on the tattoos, nose ring & grew up on a large council estate.
Also got a degree & post grad qualifications..... what on Earth does 'going council' mean, although I suspect I can guess....sheesh.