101 ways to embarrass your teenager.

[LoisInTheMiddle]

I have discovered what fun it can be embarrassing teens. And so easy.

I always knew that teenagers found their parents embarrassing and my 14 year old DS has now reached that stage. What I didn?t know was how little it takes to cause intense embarrassment and humiliation.
I have turned into Lois from Malcolm in the Middle. Apparently I am the most embarrassing person on the planet. Did I dance at his school disco? Kiss him in front of his friends? Wear something unsuitable for my age? No, nothing like that

This is what I did.
We were on holiday in a self service restaurant at the pool bar. Alongside the cutlery were some table mats so I took four knives and forks and four table mats and set them out on our table. DS1 sat down and said, while looking as though he wanted to crawl under the table,
?Mum , how could you??.
?What have I done??
?The mats. No one else has table mats.?
?Well I thought they improved the sticky plastic table?
?Mum, I beg you, please never do the table mats again?

Of course I made it worse by laughing.

Mums of teens tell me yours. Have you managed to humiliate your teen with anything as trivial?

Just come up with a great one. Our local PCT running a 'Free Health Check' campaign and want 2 men & 2 women aged between 40 & 74 to pose 'Calender girls style' for their poster campaign. Posters will appear on buses and billboards around the county. This thread immediately sprung to mind and DH & I told DS (14) we were going to put ourselves forward. Imagine the school bus pulling up with your mum & dad naked on the back of it!!! DS said he would 'kill' us if we did any such thing & then revised that to he would 'kill' himself instead before he died of embarrasment.

DD invited friends to house I cooked and served dinner.At end of meal they all got up and left to go upstairs "hang on a minute" I said looking at all the plates left on table and no offers of washing up "Does Cinderella live here?" I asked to an embarassed silence. I am now known by DDs friends as "Mein Fuhrer" because I insisted they all did a spot of hydrotherapy. DD said later I embarassed her and none of her friends do the washing up at home!
I also embarass her by attempting to talking to her friends and showing some interest in their lives , asking how they are, are they enjoying school etc etc apparently talking to the younger generation is banned by anyone over 25.
I am however a super cool mum when I am in possession of the red purse and in a shopping mall with her but she wants me to hide if she spots anyone from school

This thread about embarassing your teenage kids is a real tonic, it had me in stitches as i seem to be a constant source of embarassment to my 2 DDs aged 14 and 11. Is 11 not a bit young to be hormonal? last week she burst into tears as I was singing along (and half dancing) while driving through our village where she said some friends of hers saw me. I actually felt bad such was her extreme humiliation.

Mine are still a bit young to be embarrassed by me but my dad used to regularly embarrass me!
One time I was in town with him and asked if I could go into Tammy Girl (subtext- ON MY OWN). I went in and saw a bunch of 'cool girls' from my class, including one alpha girl who was well known for her rude acerbic manner.
Just as I was casually saying "Hi" in a very casual demonstration of casualness, my lovely Dad came up behind me carrying a huge sack of compost, which he proceeded to heft off his shoulder and dump on the floor with a sigh before greeting me, thus confirming that he was with me. I think you could have fried eggs on my face.

My mum likes to go out with her hair in rollers under a bandana. Makes me want to die everytime. Oh and these horrible boots and black furry hat like that one from teletubbies wears during winter -.- It's such a shame, she has such a great figure and could dress up soo much better but she likes to embarass me sigh

Dance- no further action required.
thinking of joining local Morris dancing troupe as they regularly perform in town

Bum strike through didn't work

According to DS1, I am the only parent who ever tries to talk to friends...
I am the only parent who ever suggests a friend might like to stay for tea, and to make matters worse, I am vegetaaaaarian and how could I possibly expect friends to eat that crap?!
DS2 is mortified by my tendency to talk and wave to strange babies in public places, and play peek-a-boo with them...

But apart from that, DSes are used to my natural embarrassingness... I think the only time I ever managed to rattle them was the time I stopped them squabbling in public by putting on my best Feeble Old Granny Voice and whining very loudly "DSonnnnnnnnne, DStwoooooooooo, I've PEEEED my PAAAAANTS!"

me and my dh dance around the kitchen, apparantly her dd is an ok dancer but i move my arms to dance and people dont do that anymore. before her friends of bf come over she warns me not to dance or if i cant restrain myself under no circumstances am i to move my arms!
i have embaressed her by dancing in asda whie waitng in the queue, the cashier appreciated it but she didnt.