Page 5 | Does anyone else have a mumbling teenage boy?

inthesticks · 2011-05-26T14:45:15+00:00

Just a rant really. DS1 has a very deep voice but speaks quietly (unless he's shouting at the x box). We've had all those converstions about speaking clearly to adults and looking people in the eye, but I can't hear a word he says. Admittedly my hearing isn't perfect but he knows that. Now he has a cold and so his voice has gone down several octaves and is even quieter. I feel like I need an eartrumpet. Or semaphore. Or sign language.

Al0uiseG · 29/05/2011 13:59

I have glimpsed the future and it doesn't sound too bad :o

mummymeister · 29/05/2011 19:21

Oh yes the joy of "like" after every word. what about "in a minute" the answer when you ask anything that could be remotely helpful. My personal favourite is " i can't load the dish washer it keeps giving me the evils" I find that i am the one shouting the most - up the stairs to be heard over the music which is then met with the "no need to shout, i can hear you" Do they grow out of it?

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inthesticks · 29/05/2011 19:43

Fellatio your boy sounds lovely. Reminds me of the group I use to hang around with when I was that age in 1976.

DS1 is only 15 but he does have some lovely friends. They are all mumblers at home but when they stay here they are unfailingly polite and appreciative of food, lifts to town etc. Perhaps they all save their worst for home.

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noddyholder · 29/05/2011 19:47

My ds came in about 10 mins ago with OMG like you won't believe it story but for once it was pretty good! He went to the train station 2 streets away and our cat was there and he had to bring her home by skateboard! While all his mates had a good old laugh

FellatioNelson · 29/05/2011 20:27

that really made me laugh noddy!

mummymeister do you live in my house?

My boys all try thier hardest to avoid being chosen to put out the rubbish, as they are all terribly squeamish about 'bin juice'.

bellavita · 29/05/2011 22:32

Oh god yes, I have one.

He does a mumbling sort of boom now his voice has broken.

Bless him, he is taller than me and can actually lift me off my feet.

PigletJohn · 30/05/2011 01:08

if someone says "nwhmmrllfgno?" to me I like to mumble "pngfollowgruff" in reply.

Gerrof · 30/05/2011 01:18

DD is very funny with her chores - she is good with doing her jobs (well, I do bloody pay her) but there are certain things she will not do

One oh her jobs is to clean the bathrooms. She does a great job, uses about a pint of Mr muscle each time but hey ho, but she will NOT under any circumstance touch the toilet. That is left to me

She cooks but cannot touch onions with her bare hands, if I have run out of latex gloves she will not chop one ('onions are RANCID mum') so she will have cooked a bolognese or something with no onion. Which is odd.

She won't put out a bin, like Fellatio's boys she is scared of binjuice an getting a microscopic bit on her hand.

Despite her having more clothes than me, and putting everything in the laundry basket after 10 minutes of wearing, when she is going out of course she wants to wear the one thing which is at the bottom of her laundry basket, so she takes it out and goes and stands in the garden and waves it round in the air 'to air it out, mum' and I have to go and snatch it out of her hands.

She is obsessed OBSESSED with mopeds and every spare minute of the day shows me mopeds on ebay and talks about makes and models and engine restrictions and other BORING CRAP until I beg her to go away and leave me alone because I couldn't care less about bikes.

FellatioNelson · 30/05/2011 08:09

My 16 year old is desperate for a moped. I won't buy him one because I know he only wants it so he can get away from me without asking for a lift.

PigletJohn · 30/05/2011 13:45

when I was a youngster I got a holiday job and saved up enough to buy my first m/c

sort of a "growing up" milestone

why should mums buy their kids mopeds?

Shodan · 30/05/2011 13:57

Ds1 has been told in no uncertain terms that htere is no way he'll get a moped from us/while he's living Under Our Roof. But we will pay for driving lessons and help towards a car when he's a bit older.

Mostly he talks quite clearly, and has the bellowing from one end of the house to the other down to a fine art, particularly when he's being too lazy to walk six feet to make himself a cup of tea.

In fact, he's really rather nice . He used to be horrible, but like a pp said, once the GCSE years began he's changed. Almost normal, you might say.

Personal hygiene needs some working on. After he's had a bunch of friends here, all of whom use a different flavour of Lynx and spray it liberally to cover the stench, I have to go through the room with my dressing gown collar held over my nose until I can reach a window.

BinEnd · 30/05/2011 17:35

I think it's funny how mine are afraid of a bit of bin juice but quite happy to let all sorts of organic matter fester in their rooms.

DS1 went back to Uni after the easter break (4 weeks hols) to be greeted to the dirty plates he had left before he come home. One heatwave & a closed room equalled a sink full of mould & a stench like you wouldn't believe

BinEnd · 30/05/2011 17:36

I think it's funny how mine are afraid of a bit of bin juice but quite happy to let all sorts of organic matter fester in their rooms.

DS1 went back to Uni after the easter break (4 weeks hols) to be greeted to the dirty plates he had left before he come home. One heatwave & a closed room equalled a sink full of mould & a stench like you wouldn't believe

BinEnd · 30/05/2011 17:37

I think it's funny how mine are afraid of a bit of bin juice but quite happy to let all sorts of organic matter fester in their rooms.

DS1 went back to Uni after the easter break (4 weeks hols) to be greeted to the dirty plates he had left before he come home. One heatwave & a closed room equalled a sink full of mould & a stench like you wouldn't believe

BinEnd · 30/05/2011 17:38

Sorry - computer got stuck

qwertysue · 30/05/2011 21:51

OOOpsadaisy... that is roughly translated as "i will see you later yeah"
because the wonderful english language that our teens now speak (which annoys the hell out of me) is as follows:

me :"ds please shut down your xbox its bed time"
ds 14. "Am just getting to a safe point!"

ds 14 answering the phone "yellow" not HELLO!
ds14 disagreeing with me always ends in him replying STUT UP. (grr!)

The minute i raise my voice i get the reply "you need anger management classes you do!"

Although he does speak clearly, sometimes just not loud enough, he believes all time not spent at clubs or in school should be his "free time" and should not be interupted for family, nor should he help out un-necesarily ie if he has just done one thing he shouldnt have to do another? i remember how my friend her son then at 14/15 was given this piece of advice from my mum " we lose them for a while, but they do come back to us " and she says knowing that got her through. however my ds is now at that age, but that just seems a crap piece of information, as mine has me in tears, gritting teeth, quite often wanting to throttel him, loving him yet hating what he does all in one. i cant wait to get my nice boy back (as i know he is in there! ) i know that with mine i need to ease up a bit in order to get through this phase!

qwertysue · 30/05/2011 22:02

i had to chuckle at the moped thing, i was an obsessed teenager who aaaalways wanted a bike! so to try and avoid the "boys will be boys/ showing off with their mates" i did that thing of buying mine a small motorbike at age8 then another at 9. He took it to empty fields, never annoyed anybody! but he did the riding it fast etc. and now isnt interested in the slightest!!! yey plan worked! he got it out of his system and no longer has the urge to do it at a legal age when he will be a risk to himself plus others. reverse phsycology worked wonders

PacificDogwood · 30/05/2011 22:26

IME (am a GP) teens come in mumbling/will not look you in the eye/grunting variety who will require their mammy to tell the scary dr what is wrong with them or in scrarily grown-up/well turned out and groomed/middleaged before their time variety only .
The prematurely grown-up ones frighten me - they are more mature than me and I could quite easliy be their mother!

Me eldest is 8, so I have a little time before I have to worry about grunting and mopeds. Mind, my brother was obsessed from about 14 onwards. He is now 43 and then runs a (bigger) bike in the summer. Maybe rather than resisting our parents should've tried the reverse psychology thing, qwerty!

bruffin · 31/05/2011 00:02

Pacificdogwood - last time I took my DS 15 to the doctors,the gp didn't look much older than DS

Gerrof · 31/05/2011 00:11

I can't get away from the bike shit.

DP is 49 and can still bore for Britain on motorbikes.

DP and DD sit there and waffle on for ages.

Al0uiseG · 31/05/2011 08:22

"Bike shit" do you have to pick it up in little poo bags? Think I'll stick to dogs ;-)

Wottywot · 31/05/2011 08:24

No but I have a mumbling 37 year old brother :)

melikalikimaka · 31/05/2011 09:02

Not so much mumbling, but on a mushroom in the dark scenario.

I'm on a 'need to know basis'.

'Where are you going?' Answer, 'Out'.

'What time will you be back?' Answer, 'Later'.

'Have you got your phone?' Answer, 'Ye, Ye'.

Pisses me right off.

TrillianAstra · 31/05/2011 09:12

carolanne6 · 31/05/2011 15:02

i need some advice.. my 15 year old has stolen money from my husbands wallet and the wallet itself, i dont know what to do about it.This is not the first time that money has gone missing but as i had near proof it was him i explained that the other items in the wallet were very important(driving licence , credit cards etc) and that we really needed them back.He gave me back the wallet minus the money which we knew he had spent.Now i dont know what to say to him.My husband is very hurt as am i.