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 recognise a few of these from my own teenage mishaps, I look forward to my 18 month old son growing up to do them too 😅

Eeeeeeeee there’s some right misery knickers on here tonight.

My 10 yr old is a whizz at maths, very techy, loves performing arts.

However genuinely walks around like a fart in trance whenever he’s given a task or two. Even he is starting to laugh at how gormless he is……sometimes.

Your tales are giving me a giggle at least

@Srepmum1984 thanks for starting this thread, these are hilarious 😂 xx

I’ll look out for your user name on the teen boards in a few years!
They know what they should do, and do the stupid thing anyway. Even the sensible ones.

My son put a pizza in the box in the oven ! He’s 31 . Il get bashed now for bein a bad parent 😂😂😂

Oh and my daughter once asked in a restaurant was gammon a fish 😳. She still gets teased over that now and it was years ago . She was however 21 at the time 😂

I can’t believe you didn’t given instructional lessons in that years ago! What an awful, awful parent you are… teen DS has a friend who jumped off the roof of their house yelling ‘parkour’ to see if it would hurt.
Spoiler, it did. One parent is doctor, the other a barrister and the kid is very ‘bright’… it was til the hormones took over!

drylogsonly 😂😂😂

My 17 year old is learning to drive. She put petrol in her car today and I watched her take the nozzle out with the handle pressed in!

Thankfully the pump hadn't started so no harm done. She said I was overreacting when I was explaining what would have happened if it started up 🥺

didnt break any thing by some miracle…

Jesus someof the people on this thread!

I've made it my life's work to try and instill common sense in my teens/young adults

My eldest is autistic and has zero common sense. If you teach him a specific set of instructions, he can do it but if life deviates, he cannot think of contingencies, but my other two do manage, but will inevitably make mistakes.

Rome was not built in a day and what seems common sense as a fully fledged adult, is nit always obvious as a teen.

I'm guessing a kit of those on here telling parents of teens how awful we are, don't actually have teens?

DS ran a bath, forgot about it and flooded the bathroom and my bedroom, tried to vacuum up all the water. He is mid 30’s now and a very successful business owner!

I thought my teens did not have problem solving skills but hmmmm this thread is hilarious if not worrying. I would have thought growing up at home teens would watch you around the house, help out with cleaning, laundry and chores even if very occasionally, try their hand at making themselves snacks and heat food at home.

I asked my daughter to make lunch - soup and some bake in the oven rolls (ambitious I know).

She came in and told me the soup was in the microwave and what temperature for the rolls. So I said 'No, cook the rolls first as the soup will heat quicker.' She disappears off.

Next thing she was back in the doorway - tin of soup in hand - and said 'ok. I've stopped the soup - what temperature for the oven?'

She'd just put a closed tin of soup into the microwave! 🤦🏻‍♀️. I nearly had a heart attack!

My nephew as a teenager asked is Vietnam a place or is it just a war!

Another friend of DS decided that NYE at our friends party was the perfect time to see how much beer he could drink before he puked.
Not sure how much he got through but he ran into the main party at midnight, told us all he loved us then spent the next hour in the loo puking before being carried home by his weary parents. He’s 15.

I’m sat here having a well earned wine and laughing my head off 😆

A few years ago I came home to one teen son inside the house staring at his teen brother locked outside the house at the back door. Just staring at other like monkeys in a zoo. Neither had thought to open the front door. I just pictured them staring at other for half a hour.

The keyless one has microwaved dry instant noodles and cooked a pizza for six hours in the oven, and microwaved a frozen pizza. He has dyspraxia and executive functioning issues. It's all a learning curve ( I hope)

Yep.
I was standing on my own feet at 16 living on my own at 18 working and paing my own bills and working on a course to make something of myself.
The other week a friend of mine told me her 17 year old fried an egg but it dint taste how mum done it because he cracked the whole thing shell as well in the pan.
She said it was so funny.

@blueshoes teens do indeed cook meals, clean, tidy and otherwise mimic the jobs you do around the house - but what they are doing is modelling. They're mimic what out do, or following instructions. Because they still haven't yet learned or developed the skills to identify a problem and work out independently how to solve the problem.

I lived alone from 18, and was very much taught how to cook, clean, shop etc. I still made stupid mistakes because I hadn't yet developed problem solving skills.

14 DS last year

Can you lock the front door mate before you come up to bed (from the inside)
Sure - which key shall I use?
Um the one you always use when you come home
What the key I use to come in works inside too?
Sure mate, it’s the same door and the same key

He was utterly bamboozled for days at this

My eldest has just turned 13… I am mentally noting all these stories to pre-empt any of the same errors in judgement. Starting with a tour of the kitchen 😂

DS has been doing laundry for a good 18 months now - age 14- and a couple of weeks ago couldn’t find the laundry capsules to improvised wit some washing up liquid instead… just FYI its foams, REALLY foams but still the kitchen fkoor got a good wash I suppose

@Rainbow1235 are you my mom? 😂

@Srepmum1984 fancy Japanese bin has absolutely killed me 😂😂😂