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 did exact same thing aged 29
But, my excuse was I as pregnant at time, and it was baby hormones 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes - and in medical terms, moron was just below normal. Whereas Idiocy was far far down the scale, with imbecile in the middle.

I remember the time some burk put my ds (who was about 14) in charge of pigs and chickens at school (they wanted to give him some responsibility)

He was doing fine and teachers very pleased with him when he walked down the street swinging a black bag

He'd brought home a dead chicken (it had keeled over) and was genuinely amazed I wasn't A-going to pluck,gut and cook it for Sunday lunch or B-bury it in our garden (we didn't have a garden)

God knows why he thought I'd be pleased with a dead,fully feathered,ungutted chicken

A few weeks later a pig died and I had to fend off the phone calls about bringing that one home too (thankfully a teacher had a word)

He did grow up to be a very sensible man-eventually

Reheated left over Chinese in the oven.
Still in the plastic containers!!

Um… “kerb” can be a noun (side of the road) or a verb (run the car onto said kerb). “Curb” is normally a verb (curtail something) but can be a noun - it’s a type of bit for horses and can mean a measure for curtailing any action. To make matters more difficult, it’s, spelled curb in all four situations in America.

Sorry. There’s always a bigger pedant.

DSS 16: I'm hungry.
Me: I'm a bit busy at the mo, but make yourself a fish finger sarnie if you want.
DSS: I can't find the fish fingers, there aren't any in the cupboard.
Me: That's cos they're in the freezer, where fish fingers are always kept 😐
DSS: Where's the bread, is that in the freezer too?
Me: No, that'll be in the bread bin 🤔
DSS: So, what do I do with these fish fingers. Do I take them out of the freezer, put them on the bread and then stick it in the microwave? How long should I put the microwave on for?
Me: Butter the bread, put the fish fingers under the grill. When cooked put on bread. 🤨
DSS: What's a grill?
Me: ffs 😒

that's the thing with teens, they can't find a plate or a bin, but they can get themselves to London to audition for drama school.

Mine can't work out where clean underwear comes from and has to ask how to use the cooker EVERY SINGLE TIME but got herself a job offer from a well-known airline and has learnt to dress like a film star.

So relate to this. Son, 17 asked me to fill in a form, I said no, you do it! Result post code first. Basic form filling.

Omg @romany4 that was desperate.

Oh I have one!

DD was asked to do a urine sample by a nurse in hospital, she went in the loo with the bowl, had a wee in the toilet then came out and actually handed the empty bowl to the nurse like she could examine the air that had been in the same room as the urine?!!
I think it may have been the first time in my life I’d ever been speechless

Well yes, obviously!

I didn't think an ignoramus would read that much, though.

Ds is mid teens. He needs to be reminded to wear clean underwear every day.

Another shared house incident and not a teen, more early 20s ....

During lickdown one of my boys friends needed emergency accommodation so we shoehorned him in with the other hippies in the attic. Nice lad, quiet, respectable, no bother.

Except every morning I'd go into the kitchen and find nigh on every cupboard door and drawer open. It was like something out of poltergeist. After a few days I made a general enquiry of the assembled household as to the reason.

Turns out our newest housemate had ADD and he just couldn't remember to shut the damn things after he'd made food.

Pity really, a poltergeist would have been an amusing diversion.

Lockdown obviously. We were strict about licking, cos Covid.

I've worked with MH and social services for long enough that I have seen women taken from their homes for an assessment under the mental health act because a male partner had told call operators/paramedics and police the woman was mad. I worked alongside AMHPs and in CP for many years.

Though you're not exactly wrong about how serious this is, it's absolutely true that controlling men have used authorities to harm women. Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Though it's a stretch to believe a teen could be the one doing this to their mum, I wouldn't say it's entirely unbelievable.

When my brother was a teenager (13 ish) my mother used to go mental about what a grotty little sod he was. She sent him off for a bath one night, and waited outside the door for him to emerge five minutes later as she couldn't understand why he never seemed to get clean. He came out, towel wrapped around him having 'bathed'.

He was dry from the waist up, and still filthy she said the back of his neck was visibly dirty (you saying about collars reminded me). When he protested that he'd been in the bath like she told him to my mother had to explain to him that she meant to wash properly.

He had run a bath, sat down in it for five minutes, declared himself bathed and got out.

Needless to say he was sent back in and instructed to actually 1) get his whole self wet this time and 2) wash his whole self with soap 3) shampoo his hair and 4) brush his teeth before he would pass as clean.

Some teenage boys are just gross!

Would like to add that he's 40 now, is perfectly clean and presentable and if he ever isn't then he's now his wife's problem

Could you stop confusing me please! 😄

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Fuck me where to start. It’s a long list but currently refusing to go to the school she started in September, having been kicked out of her last school. No transport to new school, it’s the only one I could find that would take her, so it’s an hour school run twice a day for me. She made friends with some girl there who has now left and gone to a school which is double the distance away again, and my child is saying she won’t go to her school anymore because she wants to go to the school her ‘friend’ is at. Despite the fact that there’s no way in gods earth they would take her for a start, with her track record, even if I was prepared to get her there, which I’m not.

It’s got to the point recently that I’ve phoned social services twice begging them to take her, but sadly it doesn’t seem that easy. She honestly makes my life an absolute misery.

To be smug I’d have to be proud of myself - I’m not, I’m proud of my son

This happened to me when I rumbled my ex’s affair. I was kept in for 72 hours for an assessment and told I’d be sectioned if I tried to leave. They let me go with a very clean bill of mental health but it was very traumatic at the time.

This thread is still hilarious though! 😀

I couldn’t be arsed typing so you can blame that on Google 😉

Also I wasn’t giving advice, I was giving an anecdote

As a young teen my brother gave himself a horrific burn, taking up almost his entire shin, messing around setting things on fire and then didn’t tell anyone what had happened. The burn was only revealed by the stench emanating from it when it got horribly infected and he ended up in hospital needing weeks of treatment for the infection!

I have four morons teenagers and I could write you a book. Highlights include:

Spilled milkshake and cleaned by vacuuming it up.

Forced the washing machine open halfway through a cycle, put soaking wet clothes in the tumble dryer, flooded the kitchen and broke the dryer.

Decided it was too late to come home when he forgot his key so slept in the woods instead.

Yeeted a burning pan onto the white worktop, worktop now has a lovely brown burn mark.

Got on the wrong train home, had to be picked up from a station an hour away.

Asked me if he could make chicken “from ingredients”. Yes, actual chicken.

This is just from the last few months and I am rapidly going grey…

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