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

Weaponised incompetence, the thinking woman’s ticket out of serving refreshments at any school event.
DS has perfected the art and is considered a bit useless. He’s just very clever. Nothing wrong with a bit of strategic skiving.

His most recent forehead slap moment was in A&E, at age 18+ they have to book themselves in, it was all going so well until he gave the wrong date of birth. Month and year were fine but day was a day after his actual birthday. In his defence he had been spiked but he had managed his full name, address (including postcode) and telephone number.

I love the idea of ‘comment sense’. Lots of websites would benefit from it! 😂

Another ds one
He did his sats in year 6 and cried to me that he thought he spelled his name wrong on the front 🤦‍♀️ because he’d put his full name down and he uses the shorter form! He actually had transposed two letters but his teacher said they checked the names off etc so he wouldn’t fail!! After that day he certainly knew the correct spelling.

I agree with this - ‘daft’ would be better. Could MNHQ assist with this?

@TeenagedTwit I wouldn’t bank on it. As I said I’m 31 but still don’t turn the lights on when I go into rooms - the worst consequence I’ve had of this is a collapsed lung but I’ve broken toes etc. this also isn’t not knowing my name but I’ve been having to take a lot of taxis for short journeys recently. The sequence of questions goes “where from” “where to” “what’s your name” and “how many passengers”. I put them on speaker in front of my boyfriend the other day and we got to the third question. I sang out “one!”

Seems a little redundant 14 pages in and 329 replies.

😂😂

I love his honesty

The r word, moron, idiot etc. were all medical terms which entered into common language as a pejorative. Now 'special needs' has taken its place, and so on.

@ChristmasSteps295

I hope things are better for you now.

When I was at school, in the dark ages, we had to write a letter and also the envelope. It literally takes minutes to explain this in a lesson but I have no idea where this fits in the current curriculum

It's been used in numerous responses too

How smug you sound. I hope you don't learn the hard way that even people who 'do everything right' aren't guaranteed 'good' children.

Yes my little drama queen phoned police to complain I wouldn't let his girlfriend come over. Was genuinely outraged that they didn't arrest me on the spot. They did come out though!

Jesus, I’d be absolutely livid if one of mine pulled a stunt like this (they wouldn’t though as they’re good kids)
What a waste of police time - what exactly did your ds think was going to happen? Is he that dense or has he just never been made to face the consequences of his actions?

Actually embarrassed for some of the piss-poor excuses for parents on here who seem to find incidents like the above amusing. It isn’t and you should be utterly ashamed.

Money well spent then

Aw thank you. Yes, I don't eat street chocolate anymore. It was a long time ago now.

I did have a lot of fun and adventures at the same time. It's a riot being a lone teenager a big city at times.

It was perilous, but I wouldn't change it.

That's what I said to her.

Bloody Hell, how I wish I'd had you to help me steer all of my children through the teenage years.

If only I had realised it was as simple as supporting friends who are good influences. How thick of me not to know that.

Parents of future teenagers: take note, and you'll sail through it.

Also, @willowtalk, it's "kerb". "To curb" is a verb. A "kerb" is a noun.

Pedantic, but no less useless than your advice re. teenagers.

Regularly forgets to lock the front door on his way to school. This wouldn't be an issue.... if we hadn't left an hour earlier.

We only know, because his sister gets home first and sees door unlocked. He may need to start leaving the same time as his younger sister, who is capable of locking doors.

He doesn't know what a cupboard is.

He can't turn the shower on.

I'm not entirely sure he can tie shoelaces.

I think he can make supernoodles.

Sadly I think not. In my house they answer the first part of the question - because they can't be bothered to read to the end!

For those of you declaring how well qualified your former teenagers are now...
I work in an organisation with a very high number of employees with a masters or PhD. It's a well known maxim in my department that the higher the education level the lower the amount of common sense the employees display. So, I'm sure many of those are unfortunately inflicting their lack of common sense on their colleagues!

<innocent look>

Noooo. Not at all normal.

<Plonks smoking arse in water>

<Sizzling sounds>

My DD aged 14 after a school trip meeting: 'I can't believe they want us to take money in pound sterling! Where can you even get it from?? I won't be able to go!!!'.

Mine was 16 when I asked why she was leaving for college at 8 (a hour away) when she didn't need to be there until 10. She told me she forgot the number 9 existed!!! Wtaf

Love this thread 😁My 12 year old was the epitome of sensible until he hit high school (August born, youngest in yr 8) and this past year you can slowly see the regression into stupidity (and mood swings) slowly creeping in.