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😂😂😂

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.

Why do they need so much validation? We don't care!

Cheese on toast in a toaster!

What a surprise all the cheese fell off!!!!!

lol! My dh did this the first time we used it so not confined to dozy teens.

Well lets take this a step further then......

if you are determined to make a point that these children havent been parented for the modern world properly, then neither have yours.

If they learned cooking, food prep, laundry, ironing (why?!) etc by you, then all you have done is carrying on the expectation that these are womens jobs. You have taught them that only women do these jobs, unless you have an adult man in the house teaching them too and I feel sure that your personal level of smugness would have found it necessary to point this out if you had. You are perpetuating the stereoptype, your daughters will expect to do it, your son will expect their wives to do it. Yet another family with kids that think only vaginas can work washing machines......

Or, we could dial it right back to the spirit of this thread, which is "WTF happens to teenage brains that they think that this is a good idea? haha!"

Some of these common sense things are just physics. Like cardboard burns or plastic melts under intense heat or how microwaves work.

Part of parenting is teaching dcs about safety. I have told them not to put metal or plastic in a microwave as soon as they could open one. Also about gas stoves and fires. And not putting electrics near water.

These things are not watch and learnt. They should be actively taught and monitored. I dunno. I am not the best at teaching stuff systematically but safety I don't take shortcuts.

Yeah they don’t when they’re 10 they go worse as they get to teens

I had a very similar student period to you.... a kid who can cook on a student campus is like gold dust... why I don't know!

That's not to day my 2 teens haven't done a few stupid things... the casserole dish not fitting in the oven before moving shelves being one, leaving the front door wide open when they come in 'because I needed the loo'...

My housemate at college tried to put out a frying pan fire with water - stopped them just in time

Oh for goodness sake. I was selling birthday cakes at 18 so my cooking ability was pretty advanced as it goes (thanks to my mum for being a good parent and teaching me) but I still did my fair share of really stupid things in the kitchen through my earlier teenage years.

God, mine is very geographically challenged even though she has been on plenty of holidays. She thought Slough wasn't a real place.

Huh? Not sure I follow your argument. Why do you assume @Iwishicouldflyhigh is a woman? Even if she were, why on earth would her parenting her dcs teaching them household task that vaginas operate washing machines. If she taught them to wash cars or set up flat pack furniture, then vaginas also do those things?

PS in my household Dh does almost all the cooking so by your logic, he is teaching dcs that cooking is for penises?

You are extrapolating without logic and clutching at straws.

I had an au pair break 3 kettles boiling milk in them. First time was forgivable as my 5 year old told her it was fine and would probably work.

Second time, very frustrating as I had told her after the first time that no, you can’t boil milk in the kettle.

Third time I lost the plot. She didn’t last long.

My aunt did this to a chip pan in her 40's, despite all the adverts about using a damp cloth etc, and the entire kitchen went up.

I am a fan of quizzes and as the saying goes, its only easy if you know it and if you didnt know it, now you do so remember it.

This is so funny. My 16 yo dd asked me when squid games came out if it was real and the people died. I tried to get her to watch the reality version of the show with me a few months ago and she asked me if the people actually died in the show.

My 15 dd once proudly proclaimed she had found a perfect hack for removing blackheads and cleaning her face, she had found an old nail brush under the sink and had been using that 😲(luckily only the once before I intervened)

It is not really perfection to not do illogical things. There is a big middle ground between perfection and I am not even sure what to call it.

We Have a crappy old kitchen that we are planning on replacing when our kids are old enough not to trash the joint. In light of this, my husband has sharpied various basic cooking instructions on the tiles by the kettle and hob in an attempt to mitigate the worst of any artistic cooking attempts! I thought it was quite a good idea if you’re not precious about your tiles 😂

I actually have more stories about my own teenage escapades than my daughters, including but limited to cooking a pizza on its polystyrene packaging, setting fire to multiple pieces of toast when using the grill then walking off and forgetting about it, using a carving tray as a roasting dish (!! It melted. My parents were on holiday at the time and I had to explain what I had done when they got home!) and throwing a pop tart I had accidentally set fire to out of the kitchen window (I don’t remember why) into a bush where it nearly caused a much bigger fire. I don’t know how my parents put up with me to be honest! I do also remember ringing my mum when they were on holiday when I was 18 (literally about to go to university) trying to work out which bit of the washing machine the soap went in…..I am a perfectly functioning adult now, and quite a good cook with no small kitchen fires for ages, promise!!

My dad asked his apprentice to make the tea and pointed out the tea bag tin and the teapot. 10 mins later dad tried to pour a cup and nothing came out. The apprentice had used all the teabags in the one teapot.

I have had quite a few aupairs around 18 and early twenties. The one that left the gas on left soon after.

I can safely say that most aupairs don't do the things on this thread.

That said, I specifically teach them about safety, like not leaving the kitchen if there is food cooking on the hob, oven or grill and always to set a loud timer.

I had a very similar student period to you.... a kid who can cook on a student campus is like gold dust... why I don't know!

Don't most parents teach their kid how to cook a spagbol before sending them off to uni?

My brother, when he was a teenager, came home drunk and made a cheese and onion sandwich. In the morning he told me mum the little onions were much nicer than the usual ones until she pointed out they didn’t have any onions. He’d made the sandwich with a tulip bulb 😂

Honestly, are you not worried about a 16yr old that thinks this? It’s not normal.

Did he have to go to hospital? Tulip bulbs are really poisonous. And also pretty large!

Ha ha no. My mum didn’t even know until the next day and he’s still here years later so guess he was ok x