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😂😂😂

Yeah quite. Why are people so openly admitting that their parenting has been so rubbish, almost proudly?

The reason they don't know this stuff is because you haven't told them or show them.

Try and remember back in the day when you didn't know stuff. Or maybe you did know it all, as your parents did a better job. Or maybe you came out of the womb as a perfectly formed 45 year old. Or maybe your generation were automatically superior. Which do you think applies?

I don't think anyone has said previous generations of teenagers were superior other than you. People have used examples of when they were teens and they or their friends did silly things.

@AnnoyedAsAllHeck , You reminded me pf one of my early teenage cooking disasters. Muesli was a new product to the UK market, imported from Europe. As is common with such products, recipe suggestions are included, incorporating said product, to encourage their wider use, and I wanted to try making muesli cake.. My DM was happy to let me develop my independent cooking skills, and as per usual, helped me gather ingredients then left me to it.
The metric system was hardly used back in the day, so the manufacturers had helpfully translated the recipe from the original German/metric into English/imperial, including "1 tbsp. baking powder".
I had done enough home baking to know about adding baking powder to plain flour to make things rise, but lacked the experience, or common sense, to twig that the translator had confused "1 tsp" for "1 tbsp"........it rose all right!
DM kept calm about the mess and the waste of ingredients, but I received a practical lesson on Ovens and How They Are Deep Cleaned.

One good reason why teenagers may be without good manners could be that they did not learn those good behaviors from childhood either because their parents were keen on making more money and the children missed out in daycare. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). A 2-parent home is biblically the right environment to raise children. A mother is the greatest caretaker of the home; therefore, she should not be absent from the home until the kids are grown up. Everyone in the world, whether a genius or anyone making contributions, one way or the other, passed through a woman. Anyhow, a husband minded man should be the one chosen by a woman who is going to have children oar a child.

What?

Seconded.

OMG! You actually quoted the DM as your source for accurate factual information.

I didn’t really believe that gullible people like you existed until now.

Every day’s a school day! 😂😂

Yes dear.

I hope you told her which arm! (DS15 asked)

What has the world come to when (I assume) an adult doesn’t know the difference between as and has

Sorry it might not go away with age. Looks at husband who melted bee's wax that had paraffin wax in it in the microwave. 2 foot sheet of flame and re-decorated wall

As a person who lives with three teens, I can tell you that despite the wild hilarity it's actually true. At least with my sons and their friends.

I have a have an odd learning disability i dont see numbers and words like everyone else sorry for my spellings and my grammar.
Have a good day.

@twoshedsjackson Oh my! I bet you made all the souffles in the world jealous that day! 😉

I have loved this thread (though not the superiority complex posters). I am guessing, that if my Mom was still with us, she'd have some good stories about her teenage years and a LOT more of mine and my siblings' faux pas! I blame old age for not remembering more of mine. 😇😳🤐

Kids, teens and us adults make dumb, silly, unthinking mistakes at times. As long as no one needs stitches, the police, the fire department or therapy, it all will come out in the wash. Well, if you use detergent and water. LOL!

I was living on my own at 18. Still made some dumbass mistakes, the difference was nobody was there to see it.

Wow

Is Dadyu short for "Dad, you are a total arsehole"? Is that what YOUR teenagers say to you? If so, that's proof that teenagers aren't always wrong.

But we're not talking about manners...

DS is only 14, so there's hope, but I saw a ring mark on the frying pan, and he told me he cooked a pizza in the frying pan. Also tends to block the toaster by putting sausage rolls and pain au chocolats in it. I want him to try and look after himself and want to encourage him, but it might take a while

My mum won't let me forget the time I rang her from uni, to ask how to cook peas

We used to joke at university about "Dear Mum, please send me the recipe for toast". I'm always very glad that I learnt a few basic, versatile recipes quite young - bechamel sauce, generic pasta sauce, the basics of soup-making. Oh, and proper chocolate mousse, because people will forgive you a lot in exchange for chocolate mousse.

Ha, dd2 spent her first term at uni living on toast! When I asked in shock if she'd eaten anything else she paused and then said " also raw toast!"
She cooks a lot better now, thankfully! I did teach her how, but t was too much effort until the joy of toast (and raw toast!) Wore off!

Thread been funny. So op- not just your teens.
The incredible "horrified" all way to call bad parenting,moody Margaret brigade initially annoyed me. Especially,cos none of them just click emoji ,ALL had to individually reiterate, express despair and condescending judgement.
Both my kids are hopefully equipped to deal with that sorta shite.
Entire "common sense" is only really noted as being so..when one(or several) complete fail to apply it.
It must be shite being so utterly prissy you can process your child will absolutely never ever..not learn by active, somewhat embarrassing experience.
Also.
When I got first ever house(22,not teen, had baby of own) I called landlord,damn near hysterical demand urgent visit and immediate safe action cos I "discovered" when lay back in bath..below bathroom sink had some "random unattached very electric looking cable"
It's only "common sense " not 100% guaranteed ..aye,a did.

One note on finding butter in the crumb tray of the poor beleaguered common toaster. It's more likely the outcome after a slo-mo toast preparer has been near the thing. My husband still bloody does it. Takes too long pissing about and the toast goes too cold for the butter to melt. He likes his toast hot and hates lumps of unmelted butter 🤢🤮 so he shoves it back in to finish melting the butter. Of course, he blames the toaster. Funny how I can make "nicer toast than I can" in the same "piece of fucking shit bastard fucking toaster" without employing greasy stinky shenanigans.
It makes the toaster stink the house out with the smell of old burnt butter.

It also doesn't really work, as the butter ends up in the crumb tray and you're left with dry toast that tastes like it been dipped in something nasty.

He also still asks me "what number's this go on" and "how long to cook it for" while he's stood in front of me holding the bloody box.

Years of telling him to "read the instructions" haven't stopped him doing it.

It's being too bone idle to read the instructions combined with a weird streak of arrogance. I think that's part of it with teens also.

DH is fifty four.

"Biblically the right environment"?

What are you talking about?