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 not a teenager, but when I was looking for rooms to live in my (five years younger) friend had to remind me that it might be quite useful to have access to a washing machine and, in fact, a bed in my new living quarters (they were unfurnished and having only lived in shared houses and halls the need for a washing machine in a bedsit hadn’t occurred to me). That IS down to bad parenting, as I don’t have many life skills and have been taught that I’m useless at the ones I have so not to try.

My sister went to uni and promptly left an enormous pile of washing for my mother with a sign saying WASHING :( I at least managed to launder my own clothes and do my own paperwork from day one at uni.

No he wasn't referring to leave. He genuinely asked me.. do I have to come into work everyday of the year (obviously not weekends). I said yes unless you take annual leave of which you have x amount. He actually thought we had a version of 'school holidays' built in.

It won't be true though. Even if there's a grain of truth in it, it obviously didn't happen like that poster said. Ambulances don't get sent just because someone says a person is "crazy". Getting MH support for someone who is genuinely mentally ill is really fucking difficult.

I'm also surprised to learn that supermarkets are apparently accepting paper application forms for jobs.

The sheer effrontery of me asking my 14 year old DS to wash his neck in the bath at 6.45am this morning, triggered sustained moaning/back chat.

I threatened him with a cold shower
(idle words, I wouldn't really be so hard hearted).

I mean.....everyone knows morning baths are just for sitting in right?

The colour of his white school shirt collars lets me know it's not a one off.

Put a wash on just now, then went into his room....to find more dirty washing cast upon the floor.

AAARGH.

Yeah lets all laugh about it, then when they get older and especially if they are men we will see threads upon thread of women complaining how incompetent their husbands are and can't even do basic stuff. But hey if your partner isn't like that aren't you lucky he was raised right. Who would you would want your son or daughter to end up with..

There is being daft over something that you'd think yeah ok most people wouldn't know which sure you could laugh it off, but some of the examples on here are just embarrassing

15 year old lad went back to his boarding school for the autumn term. Several weeks pass, he messages mother to enquire of her "where have I put my glasses." He wears them every day, so clearly he had them for the first weeks. Mother is at home, more than 100 miles distant from him 🙈

This👆

Agreed.

Those kids who are almost adults calling emergencies services. How spoilt are some of these kids.

I did this to DP the other day when he forgot his phone and went to work. I didn't even realise until he saw the text later and asked why I'd sent it.

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My one from DSS is "Will I get food poisoning from eating raw toast?"

I really laughed at this one

@cherwellblues has reminded me of a text from my DS this past summer. Staying with his grandparents, 150 miles away: on about his third day there, I got a text saying 'Where's my coat?' (The sad thing was that I was able to guess straight away exactly where he'd left it, thus reinforcing the assumption that Mum Knows Everything).

Been sick for past three days and have learned that my sons 'don't know' lots of things. Like how to make porridge. Or top up the electric meter. Or how to sort out recycling, or how to find anything. Or how to look at the little numbers on the clock and work out what they mean, so they don't miss the school bus. Or how to close doors at night so the arsing cats don't get up the stairs and cause mayhem.

They're in their early teens, and yes, I do think there is a degree of regression, I think younger children would actually be much more helpful and pro-active.

That’s hysterical!!

Tattoos and a nose ring... they're going council quickly...

Their brains rewire in their teens though, and they forget a load of stuff they knew/ could do fine when younger. So don't speak too soon, in a few years that 11 year old might be standing in front of the open fridge yelling 'where do we keep the milk?'

On the flip side at 15 my boyfriends MOTHER called the police on me after she saw me having the audacity to be in a shop in the shopping center. She was OUTRAGED that police wouldn't arrest me on her say of 'My son has a girlfriend and I don't like her'. She then tried to attack me and she was removed by security.

I had never done anything even remotely wrong or anything to even make her dislike me (she didn't know me, I met her once for 1 minute and I had only said a friendly 'hello') but apparently I just 'wasn't good enough for her baby' (her baby, the smelly greasy teen who proudly told everyone he didn't bother wearing underwear as he didn't see the point in changing them daily to wash them... ok).

I did that when I was 12! My friends could slip in and out of the baby swing, I was a bit bigger and found out that I couldn’t. Took me about 15 minutes to get out, my friends were pissing themselves, I think I started crying at one point. I eventually got free but had two massive bruises above my knees for a couple of weeks after. I’m so glad camera phones weren’t around then 😁.

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper

Sandwich making YouTube - it made me laugh!

DS comes into my room waking me up. He's been up for a while getting ready for school.
"What's the weather like?"

Do they think Mum knows the answer to everything? Did he stop to consider how someone asleep with the curtains closed could be better placed to know what the weather was like, than someone who was up and dressed?

He's getting the hang of what his initiative is for - a mere raised eyebrow were make him reconsider.

I once held a pan of spaghetti over the sink and tipped it out to drain. Only I had forgotten to put the colander in the sink. Found myself looking down at a mass of pasta sprawled all over the bottom of the sink. I was a supposedly functioning adult at the time, too.

I once made stock, and then drained it as if it was pasta. So all the actual stock was down the drain, and I was left with the bones.

My daughter's friend thought chickens suckled their young. Because chickens have breasts. She was doing A-level biology and went on to become a teacher.

Crying 🤣🤣🤣

My DH does this too, it's infuriating. Apparently though, his answer always applies to the 2nd part of the question...maybe this is a universal thing?

Top of the Lake was peak for this! Adults asked kids questions and they just raised the hand with yes or no written on it

😂