please explain why my teens do this and add your own drive you crazy moments...

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My DS 15 drives my crazy because he walks about in just his boxers and moans he's cold...
I put their tea in front of them and DD 17 says... is it hot???
They both ask whats for tea... (its actually written on a white board in the kitchen) I tell them... then they ask me again at least twice before I start to cook it....

And I buy food on a Saturday and if I don't hide some of it they eat it all by Sunday night... does anyone else have to hide food from their teen

Please tell me what your teen does that drives you crazy and we'll see if we can analyse their behaviour between us...

Yes we have little brace elastics and slightly bigger silicon hair elastics all over the house

at hiding sports kit in the sports kit draw.

I hide gymnastic leotards in the top draw, where leotards have lived for seven years [confussed]

Or even

Yy to all of this!

• Moaned at for 'hiding' stuff by putting it away in its correct place [tick]
• Elastic bands from braces scattered everywhere [tick]
• Hairs everywhere [tick]
• Realising she doesn't have correct ingredients for food tech at 7.30am [tick] (how can this happen EVERY week????)
• Suspiciously clean clothes dumped in laundry basket [tick]
• Hoarding crockery in her room [tick] (I found 6 glasses, 3 mugs and 2 plates in there this morning)

But she is also lovely and funny and full of enthusiasm and (usually) a pleasure to have around!

You could buy yourself a mini rainbow loom and make tiny bracelets out of all the spare orthodontic bands.

I thought we were being burgled at 3:30 this morning, so I got up to look. DS1's door was open so I figured it was ok to come downstairs. He had woken up hungry and was making porridge!

Apparently that was my fault because he has used all the milkshake powder and between him and DS2 they have eaten all the mince pies so he couldn't have a milkshake and mince pie!

We are a two- floordrobe family. Also yy to the just-missed-the-bin-well-never-mind-it-was-near syndrome. We have that too! Great to know it's not just my pair that do these things.

OH & DS both invest heavilly in keeping their floordrobes fully stocked, be it from clothes only worn once, to ironing that belongs in the drawers not on the floor. They think my threat of striking last time it happened was only a threat. It wasn't. OH is due to run out of clean t shirts next Monday......watch this space.

Love it! Sat drinking my tea and laughing!

Ahh if I only had realised what was in store. When they were toddlers I thought they were hard work, what a fool I was!

My teens aren't really hard work. I just don't go into their rooms any more except to retrieve my stuff. The floordrobes are a bit grim though. My two both have washing basket thingies in their room, but dd does the vague throwing in that direction approach which means wading through dirty knickers to kiss her good night. So I told her that I'd not enter her pit in future and she would have to do without being tucked in.

They do both tidy on request, although they are young yet! Still another four years and they will both be gone and no doubt we will miss them like crazy (as well as being relieved!)

YY to the floordrobes
And the smell of decomposing uneaten food combined with eau de Beckham (DS) and Alien (DD).
Food evaporates round here, hence the existence of Mums secret snack stash.
The complete inability of DD to let us know when she is leaving the premises. This morning I went in to say hi and discovered she was out all night. She is free to roam as far as she wishes but FFS at least say goodbye!
She also dresses out of my wardrobe, uses all my toiletries, hair gadgetry and make up (" But mum, I can't afford Mac!")
I hide my nice Falck tights and my cashmere socks. I have limits
If they weren't so bloody lovely if have killed them long ago.

Ds2 has a strop without fail every Saturday morning because his footy kit isn't clean. It isn't clean because he puts it in the washing basket on Friday after school and the Magic Washing Fairy doesn't get up in the middle of the night to wash it.

The absolute righteous indignation and shock he expresses each week when he says But I put it in the washing basket! is a picture.

We are then late for footy practice each saturday morning as he strops about wearing his second best kit. It is My Fault that we are late because we left late (because I was standing by the door waiting for him) .

Oh the footy kit!
If it actually makes it way off the floordrobe, complete with both socks in time for my DAILY laundry stint, the socks will be inside out and laden with mud and grass, which you will only discover when you shove your hand in to turn them the right way round...

Oh yes, ds's room has suddenly started to smell of teenage boy. It's weirdly distinctive!

Smells like hamsters cage nooka even with no hamster.

Oh GOD! I've just caught ds trying to disguise a zit by plastering on my Touche Éclat.

Start hiding your good stuff now

Reading these is like reading a description of my DDs.

I have no tights or socks, ever. My cardigans also get stolen to wear around the house over leggings. (they're bigger than theirs because they are skinny minnies and I am not)

My nail varnish, touch éclat, eyeliner and straighteners disappear regularly. Oh and hairbrushes.

They refuse to wear a coat to school and they wear their skirts rolled sky high and think I don't realise yet come home moaning they are freezing cold!

Likewise it is WINTER yet they parade around the house in shorts and vests, cropped tops and leggings etc and then accuse me of being tight for not turning the heating up.

The whole house is covered in kirby grips. It's like they breed. Every time I vacuum I suck up about a thousand.

My ds somehow manages to crumple all of his homework essays !
This habit has slightly improved since I , kindly, ironed one of the geography essays - unfortunately the heat made all of the ink disappear LITERALLY! Oops :)

Love this thread

Both my DDs had to be at school at 4.30am this morning for a trip. Set my alarm for 3.30. DD1 leaps out of bed, full of smiles, chatting about the trip, packing her bag, she was ready in about 15 minutes, she could have had a lot longer in bed.

DD2, well, I had to pull the duvet into the hall in the end and she spent the next 30 minutes moaning and groaning, applying tons of make up, nicking my mascara, after saying how crap it was. Moaned about the lunch I had packed for her and then said how hideously embarrassed she was arriving at school in our old banger of a car. Slammed the door and off she went, not even a goodbye.

Will I be doing this again at the crack of dawn for DD2, not a chance.

Just thought of something that really bugs me ...... does anyone elses DCs use their really nice wine glasses for juice/squash. WHY!?

Just been into the kitchen and they've used my beautiful champagne flutes to have their orange juice in. They're hand wash only.

Oh yes, the appeal of the fancy wine glass! Still mine at least do ask, and it's generally only when we are having wine too. dd is generally quite appreciative, and she does look way better than me in most of my clothes I make myself feel better by remembering that I would never have dreamed of wearing any of my mother's clothes (she had totally no style to my teen eye)

I feel everyone's pain on this thread. I got a touche eclat for Christmas last year - the DDs bought it for me. it disappeared in Jan... every now and again I have a little whinge but it does no good as they each blame the other and then DH/the cat/the dog/the postman.

They'll unwrap a snack in a clean kitchen, and leave the wrappers all over the counter.

Or use cutlery, and chuck it in the sink, rather than the cutlery basket of the (open) dishwasher.