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😂😂😂

You and LaPalmaLlama should just start a thread on...my perfect children then

Oh my God how infuriating.

I can't actually remember what 15yo DD did earlier this week but, after intervening, I did point out that for someone who is academically intelligent and really good at logic problems, she can make some daft decisions.
Then 11yo DS loves flapjacks and has been helping to make them for years. I had promised him some and then various things happened so I said to him to go ahead and make them whilst I went out to get DD. All would have been fine had he realised that I always use the small glass mixing bowl rather than the small plastic mixing bowl to melt the butter & syrup over the saucepan. It didn't occur to me to specifically tell him that it had to be the glass one. On coming home to a funny smell and a misshapen plastic mixing bowl, I did ask him if he knew that plastic melts to which he said that he did but that I always did it. The key point here was that I didn't do it but as we otherwise use the plastic & glass bowl interchangeably, I can see how he made the mistake that he did.

Actually there'd be 40+ of us if reactions to my first post on this thread are anything to go by...

True but most kids know at 10 -12 that plastic is not for the oven and lemsips are made with hot water right.

My brother shared digs at uni with a lad who was super intelligent. But his parents had just let him focus on his studies. He was thrown into the deep end so to speak. He couldn’t make a cup of tea and put eggs to boil in an electric kettle. He had to show him how to do basic things. As the oldest of 4 my brother was quite independent.

My teenager put the ELECTRIC velvetiser jug in the sink, in a basin of water.

Haha I've also done this in the past five years. I actually measured the space between the oven racks and bought a new casserole dish that fit it! Did not occur to me to move the racks at all, until the new dish arrived and DP asked why I'd got it.

My other ds (18yo) once answered the door to a John Lewis delivery driver who apologised for scraping my car, and wanted to give his insurance details. DS said it was fine and not to worry 🤦🏻‍♀️. Luckily I came downstairs in time to catch the delivery driver before he drove away. DS said he didn't know what the man was talking about and assumed he was trying to sell something 🙄. (The delivery driver and I did have a laugh about teenagers)

Well tell your sister's daughter's friend that then 🤷‍♂️

Well DD did know that you can make lemsips with water but she didn't know it was the only option.

Totally true.

which is why if your child at 17 does not know how to cook an egg, make a lemsip etc then you have clearly not taught them basic lessons life skills, and that’s not funny, it’s a parent failure.

i haven’t consciously taught my children much, they just kniw…. From having done basic fun cooking with me and watching me cook and prepare, iron, hang washing etc etc.

I nearly burned down the kitchen in the student house cooking sausages. But to my defense I didn't know the grill pan hadn't been cleaned for three years before I moved in. I was 16, the rest of the tenants were 21/22. They got me kicked out!

Above post 18 and dont know what insurance is really.

Also an intelligent mind is not necessarily a practical mind. I find competence snobs to be very dull people, mostly. Yes you were born with the innate knowledge of how to work household appliances but can you hold an interesting conversation about art.

@gannett the two are not mutually exclusive you know. But do feel free to comfort yourself. And it is also a bore to go on about your knowledge of art.

I think the shortcut heating-milk-for-drink-lightbulb-GENIUS thing must be quite common. 40 years ago my brother put milk in the bottom of a stovetop espresso pot instead of water - he thought he’d get a cappuccino. Luckily the valve which the boiling milk shot out of was pointed at the wall and not at him.

My then teen DS set my microwave on fire defrosting a bagel.

Same DS put his hand through an internal glass panel in a door pissing about play fighting with my teen DD.

Again same DS asked me if he needed to crack eggs to scramble them.....sigh.

On a positive note he's now a functioning adult who's an qualified HGV mechanic who's about to get married to a lovely woman so there's light at the end of tunnel for dumb ass teenagers.

Don’t forget me 😆😆😆

@Iwishicouldflyhigh

I'd say it depends on if they have any kitchen and kitchen appliance experience. They still need to be taught. I have a friend with teens and she has done absolutely everything for them. Not too long ago one called her at work asking how to use the oven as wanted to cook something. She was explaining it like you would to a 5 year old and super stressed about them doing it (age 19). Got a text from them saying "success." Then a panic call later that the over was still hot.

Turn it off, Love. 🤦‍♀️
It's not like the microwave....

Welcome one and all to the Sunday Super Parent Club. As I am sure you are aware, this runs at the same time as the MN Temperance League Meeting, but feel free to dip in and out of both in order to parade your perfection in front of as many people as possible.

Wasn't aware making a lemsip properly was a life skill.
She can do all the other things you list so I suppose I can't have failed too badly

Oh, I’m honestly so far from being a super parent. I berate myself daily. I wish I could say dd14 could cvit k a full on roast etc, but I can’t.

but yeah, she can fry an egg.

This thread has made me chuckle 🤣🤣

My god - the smug parenting crew are out in force. God forbid your perfect children ever mis-iron a shirt sleeve or split a béchamel...

(Whoever wrote - Did you get there on your High Horse? gets a round of applause from me 😂. )

Thankfully mine seem to have been pretty blessed with common sense, dd not so much with geographical knowledge as she’s made some right howlers about where she’s going and thank goodness for Google maps! As a first year student she gave her flat mates a demonstration of how to iron including one videoed her to watch next time and one of them wrote down her pasta bake recipe to make for parents when she went home, it was basically leftovers in Passata with some herbs, hope they enjoyed it!