To rethink daughter moving out for uni

[Ledad]

She is 18 years old so an adult, she is planning to move out for uni and will be 19 by then. She is legally obliged to make her own decisions but today, she saw a video on facebook if you put your phone in the microwave it will charge up to 100 percent, she actually thought it was real and tried it. Luckily her brother ran in and stopped her or she would have burned the house down, if she was in uni accomdation now she could have done it. I would be funding some uni stuff so if i wanted i can just change my mind, Im having thoughts of that after seeing this tbh.

She sounds like an utter moron.
I’d be questioning my parenting if I were the OP.

I was a mum at that age, so no.

How many adults get sucked in by MLMs, scams and stupid hack videos?

Obviously this is one of the more stupid ones... but its not only naive teenagers falling for this stuff

I hope she isn't studying a science subject?

What's the phrase...at 16 you think you know everything, at 18 you know you know everything, at 21 you realise you know nothing.

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain

Ditto the person upthread whose off-spring had got to be 18 and had never used a microwave! Some parents should be hanging their heads in shame or maybe they can blame the schools.

My dh, who was in his thirties at the time, and a well qualified engineer, tried to heat shoe polish in the microwave. His brother, who was a soldier, had taught him to heat up the boot polish (usually with a lighter) because that got a better shine on his shoes.

He decided technology was the way forward, so put the shoe polish in the microwave - and surprise, surprise, it caught fire! I had to go and grab ds1 from the bedroom over the kitchen and ring the fire brigade, while dh grabbed a fire extinguisher out of the car and out the fire out.

The firemen were highly amused.