The cock ups teens make!

[slipperandpjsmum]

So, today my ds enrolled at college. I asked him if he wanted me to go with him. Why was his immediate reply. He said he was more than capable of enrolling and all he needed me to do was to drive him. When we got there I noted a number of young people were going in on their own. So I went home and awaited the can you come and pick me up phone call, which I got a couple of hours later.

When I collected him he was in good spirits and said it had gone well, apart from the small fact that he had enrolled on the wrong course!!!!

So the afternoon was spent with me on the phone to the college sorting it out. When I spoke to the tutor she took it all in her stride which makes me feel this is not unusual.

Now its sorted its actually quite funny. Just wondered if anyone else out there has a teen who has cocked things up?

It's good that your DS wants to be independent. My eldest is not quite at this stage so it's easy for me to say..... but I like to think I would not phone the college to sort it out but get him to do it himself.
I know this makes me sound like a right old gimmer but I worry about the extended length of childhood these days.....
Harrumph!
Snort for good measure!

Hope he enjoys his course though. (Is he 18?)
I'll feel mean if he's only 16!

Mine likes to be independent now. We compromise by using written notes.

If I had let him sort it out himself he would prob of done 3 years on the wrong course without realising.

He has just turned 16 so you are mean!!

Anyone got any other funny tales?

Ah well - there's a big difference between sixteen and eighteen. I am jaundiced by my DD's TOTALLY mollycoddled 18YO boyfriend. (Who has also just enrolled on a college course). He has frequently been known to get lifts from his mum even when transport has been laid on and his mum still makes his bed for him every day!!!!

My teen is only just a teen....and keen to exercise his teen rights wanted to go to a different cinema that he was used to - with his mates rather than the family.

I was delighted at his independence and agreed....he got there ok, but after the movie spent an hour and a half trying to remember where the bus stop home was!!! :D - he had to ring me in the end whilst I guided him to it -

My (then 12YO) decided to make himself beans on toast.

So he put the beans in a pot
and put the bread in the pot too!
Has since learnt to make toast and heat pizzas in the oven.
Oh yes and cheese on toast, but only rarely as he finds it a faff.

My DS and DD are just in the tweenage stage and as yet not got around to that stage, although my DD is determined to be so independant I may as well not exist.

I am loving the beans on toast episode and will now watch my kids with a bemused look to see if they do make any of the same sort of cock-ups during their teenage years...ya never know it might just be what keeps my sanity in tact.

ds has had a bank card for a while and I've been putting his allowance in there so that he could practise budgeting

he kept on asking to borrow money and he'd pay it back when he 'got to a cashpoint' - given that there's a cashpoint at the station he goes to every morning eventually I got a bit suspicious ...

I went to the cashpoint with him and asked him to get the money out which he owed me. After scratching his head a few times and putting in the card the wrong way he had to admit that he didn't actually know how to use a cashpoint!! Now I know I've shown him several times but he obviously was paying as little attention to that as his report suggests he's been paying at school ...

My DD's first jaunt out to the local high street on her own by bus was hilarious.... She said she was going to get a birthday present for her friend. When she got back, she showed me her purchases, and there wasn't a card. I asked her why not, and she mumbled something about not seeing a shop selling them and blushed red. 'But there's a Clinton Cards and a WHSmith opposite' I said 'Why didn't you go there??'.... turns out she hadn't gone to the high street as planned as she had stood on the wrong side of the road waiting for the bus, so had ended up in a small village in completely the opposite direction!
We advised her to drop Geography when she got the chance

I was at uni with someone who'd managed to apply for the wrong course. You'd have thought they'd notice beforehand, what with the UCAS applications, the interview, the visit days, all the letters...

I work in a college and it's no surprise he enrolled on wrong course. We don't make it easy! Colleges don't appear to know how to keep things simple. The more confusing they can make things the better! half the staff don't understand it either.

At this time of year the boys outnumber the girls in terms of bewilderment, with the staff a close second. I'll have another glass of wine because after all tomorrow is another day

My mum works in the admin office of a HE college. She was on the phone one day to a lad going over some form or other.

My mum: Do you have a middle name?
Lad: Ummm...I think...hang on shouts Muuuuuum......what's my middle name?

dawn not surprised at all! Lol. My own son does exactly same and he is 18. God help us if he has to speak to someone 'official' on the phone " er... My mum deals with that I'll put her on".

Was ds2 b/day the other day he was 15 and he got £300 in cash SO i went up at 2pm (a couple of days after his birthday) to wake him up and let light into his cave and told him to bank his b/day money

About 10mins later i was in the kitchen and heard the front door bang shut, darted my eyes to the dining table and the £300 was still there

Went upstairs and ds2 had gone

Que me phoning DH and then waiting for the return of Ds2 (who had got to the bank and remembered he had forgot the money)

Least he saw daylight

Ds2 who has just turned 16 is so different acts 51 some days
Didnt even occur to me to go with him to enrol at college