Tell me my teens aren't the only ones lol

[Srepmum1984]

I am growing more and more gobsmacked with my teenagers common sense and I wanted to hear some other funny stories.

This week alone, son has toasted bread with butter already on it because he couldn't be bothered to wait and it smelt like the house was on fire.

Was feeling ill, so made him a Lemsip. He poured it (literally) straight into his mouth then screeched he didn't realise it was hot. He watched me make it from the kettle.

Today he is working with me over his college half term in the office for some extra cash. Blew his nose, then proceeded to try and open my free standing air conditioner fin part as he thought ' I had a fancy Japanese bin'

Please tell me I am not alone😂😂😂

I was pretty clued up, I'd learned through watching & helping my mum but she still made sure to make me practice a few dishes before I went.

Having said that, every adult in my life forgot to teach me about payslips & employment contracts so I worked at my first job for 2 years before I discovered I should have both.

We all do silly shit sometimes, my kids and myself included.

I would actually be more worried about failing as a parent if my kids weren’t able to laugh at themselves (and others!) when this kind of stuff happens.

Being perfect must be so miserable.

These posts have really made me chuckle!

The ONE (and only time) DS (18) totally surprised me by washing his duvet cover (without being asked), I spotted that he’d turned the dial on the washing machine to ‘DUVET’, which tbh makes sense (if you were a novice) and tbf, DH struggles with the washing machine, often mistakenly putting an ECO wash on (which is still running a week later 🤣) so what could I say!

These posts genuinely do hearten me, so fuck the haters, because when they're ditsy the fear is real.
My almost 15yo stuffed a huge fruit scone into the toaster, didn't deduce anything amiss from only half the scone she'd stuffed in popping back out again. Thick black smoke pishing from the toaster when next I used it.
And she overfills everything, every time she makes a hot drink or a bowl of noodles, she has to shout me to pour the brimming excess of boiling liquid down the sink. Every. Time.
She often puts things she's taken out of the fridge (like milk and butter) 'back' into a cupboard (distracted entirely by her phone).

I once put a bagel in the microwave for 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds, when I eventually remembered it there was smoke billowing out of the back of the microwave!!

@TheAlertCrow there’s not being perfect and then there’s thinking squid games is real and that you fry eggs in their shell

The fear of actual phone conversations is embedded now. It's extremely worrying.

A smell of burned waffles regularly wafts through our place. DS puts them in the toaster on the usual setting, then walks off. Drives me nuts. Also makes cups of coffee, then walks off and leaves them to go cold. Or fills the mug to the brim and slops it up the hall.

I WAS that kid btw!

In the days of video rental!

For some reason, I placed a rental video on top of the cooker. Unfortunately it was still warm and the rental melted, never to be rented out again! Of course I was bollocked about it and I have no idea how much my DM had to pay to recover the cost, so I have to remember just how ‘away with the fairies’ I was at this age before I judge! 🤣

My DH told me recently that when he was a teenager, he was in the kitchen while his Mum was preparing tea, so she asked him to give her a hand and wash the salad leaves. He ran a bowl of hot water, added Fairy Liquid, and washed the leaves in it, then left them on the side to drain!!

Interestingly, he still has his moments, only a week or so ago, he was sorting out wiring in a dash cam, he wanted to check that the cigarette lighter socket in the car worked, so pushed it in for a few seconds, then stuck his finger inside. Guess who's walking around with a blister like a polo mint on the top of his finger😂

A certain type of person who will come onto a thread like this and call all the parents of dozy teens bad parents, because their own ten year old is a far better educated child, is by default, hailing themselves as the better parent. You know how how they say that the best parent you will ever be is before you have a child? This is like that. Perfect parents despite never having had a teenager!

My eldest boys can cook for a family of six, use the washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher and hang and fold washing. They still do stupid stuff. It's how you learn via mistakes and they are free to try and fail in life too.

Reminds me of the time my 10 yo sister tried to make my mum a cup of tea in bed. Put the water, tea bag and milk in the kettle and boiled it up. More of a chai.

A friend of mine back in high school thought you filled the washing machine up with water before turning it on.. otherwise how else would the water get there?

Mine put pizza in oven fine then halfway through flipped it over to cook both sides..... The pizza was cooking on those wired grill racks... The toppings ended up on oven floor

I was an idiotic teenager. I wondered if Dettol tasted as good as it smells….it doesn’t

Do you?

I do have teens and am far from a perfect parent. My teens are 18 and 21 now. My 21 year old lives in a flat with friends. They haven't burnt it down yet.

When I went to a talk about D of E at the school, they said a boy tried to make hamburger in a bun by putting the raw burger in the bun then cooking it like that

I asked my 13 year old to lock the door, she said she doesn't know how to. She only knew how to unlock it. I had to explain it's very similar to unlocking the door just turn the key the other way.
She also once put her jeans on back to front and was very surprised when I pointed it out saying the buttons are on her backside.

Assuming while your wonderful parents were teaching you how to cook pizza, they neglected lessons in basic human kindness.

At 19, I put a shelf up over my bed (student house) with loads of sellotape. I then proceeded to put books and weights on it. I woke up to a creaking sound at 3am, the whole lot fell on my face, and I had to call my boyfriend to take me to A and E. I had a couple of rapidly ripening black eyes when we got there, and I had to convince the nurse that my poor boyfriend hadn’t beaten me up.

I remember calling my dad to tell him and he was aghast. He came over the next day and gave me a step by step lesson in how to put up shelf brackets/basic physics.

I’m actually pretty good at DIY these days!

I work in a prison. The things the inmates can cook in their kettles is unbelievable! The landings smell wonderful at dinner time. which is good because the prison food is gopping

This thread has been great, there are so many good teenagers stories 😆 I don't have any teens yet so I can't contribute to this thread, buuuut as teenagers:

• I used washing up liquid instead of a tablet in the dishwasher because I'd run out. Cue bubbles everywhere*
• My DB was so engrossed in a book that he forgot about the bath he was running. It wasn't long before the ceiling collapsed.
• I bought some Barocca (or a similar Boots alternative) and put the tablet in my mouth. I thought it was a very extreme way to get some vitamin D.

*Actually, I think I was about 21 here. To all the other boring posters complaining about being ill equipped for life... Sod off! Some kids do dumb shit, but they learn a lot in the process.