Teenagers
Today I tidied my teens bedroom and found.....
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 20:39
I'll start....
Yes, I know he is perfectly capable of doing his own room, but today DS2 (13) was away for the day and I was waiting on hospital visiting time as my Mum is very unwell, I needed something to keep me occupied so I decided to do DSs room as a treat.
He usually picks up all his laundry and clears up any rubbish on a Saturday himself as that's his responsibility but as he was away at 9am he didn't have a chance yet. We have a "no food upstairs" rule.
Anyway, apart from the dirty laundry I found:
2 empty juice bottles
1 empty smoothie carton
1 empty milk shake carton
6 empty crisp packets
3 apple cores
a pile of orange peel
1 grape
a pile of sweet wrappers
some bits of popcorn
2 plastic bowls
2 plastic cups
......and a Pringle tube full of urine 
We are going to have to have a talk when he gets home!
MistressMerryWeather · 14/03/2015 21:20
Just to add, sorry your mum is unwell.
I hope all goes well for her. 
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:21
I'll get him on his own tomorrow and ask him if he appreciates his nice tidy room and see if he raises it first - he is generally very honest and will tell me stuff that he has done that he thinks I wont like. We have always said that you get in less trouble for confessed behaviour than for stuff we find out from other people so I wont be entirely surprised if he mentions it first.
TheFairyCaravan · 14/03/2015 21:21
It's not that bad apart from the Pringle tub full of wee
Something really strange came over DS2 the other day because he tidied his room to an inch of its life. I've seldom seen it so clean and tidy, he said he needs it to be like it so he can concentrate on his A level revision.
DS1 is in the Army so when he comes home now his room is really tidy. It wasn't this time last year!
unlucky83 · 14/03/2015 21:21
We have a no food upstairs rule -it is what DD1 (14) and I fall out most about...but in the last week or so she has been better.
Rule was introduced when she was about 4 or 5 after I found a really nasty stinky rotting apple core under her bed (I worked full time, tidied it with her every week but didn't have time to do under the bed every week.)
She's been fine with it until the last 6 months or so ...when she has started sneaking food upstairs. I found a bowl of rancid cheerios in her wardrobe putting some clean clothes away...which with typical teen logical was my fault because if I didn't have the stupid rule she wouldn't have needed to hide them in there and so wouldn't have forgotten about them 
....she gave the same reason for her knocking a cup of (sugary) tea over...twice....wouldn't have happened if she wasn't trying to hide it from me... she did try and mop the tea up... with loo roll. So I had lumps of loo roll stuck to the carpet - had to get the carpet washer out ...and I had a major tantrum...and she seems to have stopped for now (unless she has just got better at hiding the evidence!)
The pringles thing is really gross and I hope he is well and truly embarrassed...girls wouldn't do things like that (but only cos it would be a lot harder for them not to miss 
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myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:24
Thanks Mitress - not looking good I'm afraid - her kidneys have failed, she is elderly so not a candidate for a transplant and I don't think they will want to go down the dialyses route. They have managed to get a little bit of function today but it's more blood than urine. Surprisingly she was sitting up and chatting whilst getting a transfusion - it was good to get some time with her. They didn't expect her to make it out of A&E but she is still here - where there is life there is hope.
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:27
I should be glad about the amount of fruit there really - we have another rule that you can't have crisps without eating a piece of fruit so at least he seems to be sticking to some rules.
MistressMerryWeather · 14/03/2015 21:28
Where there is life there is hope
Absolutely, that is a really wonderful attitude.
Apart from everything else your lovely son is providing some foul distractions for you!
How nice of him, eh? :o
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:29
we live in hope then Fairy
DS1 (14) has always been pretty good but he seems to be turning more teenagery all of a sudden. he is further behind in Puberty than DS2 but both are now 6 foot tall and rockin giant hairy legs and mustaches.
Unlucky - teenage logic through and through there :)
PegLegAntoine · 14/03/2015 21:31
My friend proudly told me he'd peed in the bedroom bin once. His GF (now wife in fact) woke up halfway. EUUUWWW
tigersack · 14/03/2015 21:31
This mega mess and urine is a big problem for us.
Ds on verge of dh kicking him out.
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:33
Ach - he is lovely really - despite the foul discovery today, I love both my boys so much my heart could burst. My mum is their last remaining Grandparent - I don't really have the guts yet to tell them how bad it is :(
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:34
My brother once peed in the corner of his wardrobe - he was drunk and thought he'd gone into the bathroom :o
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:35
tiger you mean it's a regular thing in your house then?
MistressMerryWeather · 14/03/2015 21:37
Just do things when you are ready.
But don't forget that they love you too and will no doubt want to be there for you right now.
You will all look after each other during this.
GingerPhoenix · 14/03/2015 21:38
Apart from the full Pringles tub I'd not get too bothered about the rest of it. Sweet wrappers etc are one thing, tin foil is another....my teenager knows that it's not good hygiene to have food rubbish in the bedroom but it's their room and their problem, I don't go in to clean it as it is their problem if it's untidy.
I guess I am slacking in my maternal duties but they are working hard for their GCSEs and so I am prepared to overlook the sweet wrappers etc. I guess it's just a case of not having picked that battle. I would pick a battle over a urine filled pringles tube, especially as the DCs share a jack and jill bathroom so they don't have to venture far out of their rooms to go the toilet.
tigersack · 14/03/2015 21:39
Unfortunately yes
Ds very belligerent
Ds dh relationship -zero
So fractious generally.
YvesJutteau · 14/03/2015 21:40
My uncle once sleepwalked, naked, into his parents' bedroom, took the lid off their wicker laundry basket and peed into it (in my head he then replaced the lid and sleepwalked back to his own room, but surely they'd have said something before then?)
TheFairyCaravan · 14/03/2015 21:40
I'm sorry about your mum being so unwell myotherusername.
Italiangreyhound · 14/03/2015 21:43
Phew! I was preparing for something much worse than your list of garbage! although the Pringle can is pretty horrible!! just make sure if was laziness and not that the bathroom was occupied!
My darling son will be a teenager in 9 years, is this what I have to look forward to! 
CointreauVersial · 14/03/2015 21:44
Ewww, I hardly dared click on this thread. Yuk to the Pee-ringles.
DD2 peed in her bin once, and I didn't notice for a few days. Christ, the smell. She was only 4, though.
Actually, I'm impressed by all the fruit debris. I'd be delighted if my DCs were munching fruit on the quiet.
FuckingLiability · 14/03/2015 21:45
To give you all some hope, my younger sister as a teen used to be vile - toast plates, cups with mould, drink cartons, pot noodle cartons, old make-up tissues, unwashed clothes everywhere.
She turned into Monica from Friends. She is now organising towels and sheets by size in the cupboard.
Faithope · 14/03/2015 21:47
My ds1 is 16 and a slob when it comes to his room. The bin is overflowing so now rubbish is collecting on the floor.. Dirty pants and clothes continue to lay on the floor-the pile of clean u ironed clothes are piling up as I just add to it. The fact that ds1thinks he has run out of clean pants and has helped himself to his dad's so he has a pair to wear...if only he looked in that lovely pile of laundry on his bedroom floor, he would find the 20 pairs that are clean and ready to wear. I am finding it sooo difficult not to go in there and clean it all up, the rest of my house looks clean and tidy except in there. There should be a warning on the door..
myotherusernameisbetter · 14/03/2015 21:59
Thank you for your kind words and the hope for the future.
I know there are bigger things to worry about than their rooms, but as their contribution to the house is mainly keeping their rooms tidy and ironing their school uniforms, i expect them to be done weekly and i'll go in and run the hoover round. They get pocket money for it. Sunday to Friday the clothes lie on the floordrobe but once a week it's tidy and clean - that'll do for me. I suspect that either that's a normal amount of rubbish and he clears it up without me seeing, or that he'd had to find something under the bed so whatever he'd hidden under there was pulled out for some reason.
BathshebaDarkstone · 14/03/2015 22:25
Oh I can't wait for the DC to become teenagers! Peengles? Yuk!
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