trapped in the house with teens and pre -teens if i had a great glass elevator.....

[PaulaYatesbiggestfan]

i would be outa here right now!!!

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questions for those in the know

1. are tennager boys EVER wrong
2. do they actually hear what is being said to them
3. can i survive this?

my dd is bad but at least she just buggers off and sulks for days - the arguing black is white is driving me NUTS!!!!!!

I would join you.

Can I add to your list: Do they ever go out?

No, they stay in all the time, eating you out of house and home, playing shitty computer games.

At least girls leave the house sometimes{sad]

See my post on just wanting 30 seconds alone

fizzbuzz

wow you made me feel normal - my ds15.5 never leaves the house - he lingers annoying me - winding up his sister and eating!!!

off to hunt for your thread............

You have my sympathy.
I've got a teens of 17y,16y,15y,13y. They do go out but manage to do the black is white thing in shifts. Or so it seems sometimes

juule are they all boys?

No. b,g,b,g.

crikey juule, you must have your hands full.

i've got a 14 year old son who grunts occasionally and a six year old son who annoys the 14 yr old all the time.

lol juule
i asked dh today how we had bred such arrogant children - then we had a bicker ourselves about something (actually it was about parenting said teens!) and i decided we were both self- righteous gits too !!

Makes life interesting, doesn't it.

i have also excercised my brain today doing maths with dd - statistics with ds1 - been read to ORT dc4 and whizzed a wheely bug with dc5!

Lol at this thread. Ds1 went into his room when he was 12yo and apart from emerging to go to school or argue with us he was ever-present until he was 15, when he discovered girls and parties.

Ds2 used to hang out in the rhodies in the local park, thinking we were clueless about the smoke rising from the uppermost branches. His other pastime was to troop in and out of our house with hordes of other grunting teenagers. At least grunting precluded arguments, hehe! Both of them are now normal, well-adjusted men, married and with good prospects in life.

Dd1 gave us v little trouble as a teen. She's v sunny-natured and talkative so cannot sulk for more than three minutes at a time. Still have dd2 to go, though, but at least we can pass her on to her much older siblings if she gets too annoying!!

mine has lived in his room for ages. it's weird now and again he grunts and we all jump.

Someone I know with a bedroom-dwelling ds calls him 'The Neighbour' because she only ever sees him when he's coming in/going out.

dh has had to go out to a 'call out' 30 mile round trip
ds1 come out all is forgiven - the kitchen needed cleaning !! where is the angel emotion??

Its a bit like "ships that pass in the night" in this house, only see DS a couple of times a day usually after 2pm and on his way in or out the kitchen.
PS the fridge handle has snapped off due to over use !

Everything in hour house breaks from overuse particularly remote controls which they throw at each other.

Like the name "the neighbour", although mine will come out for a food forage occasionally

yep mine emerges from the gloom to root about the cupboards looking for food.. grunts at us ..looks in mirror applys gel to air ..sprays linxs and then dissapears again

Hair*

Would love to find a name for the language of grunting. Have come home to sullen son
wished him happy new year and all I got was ..
huhhhhhh

not even a glance in my direction - how long does this go on for he will be 20 soon
surely he should have grown out of this by now

Heeeeeelp

Dave Allen once did a brilliant sketch about a teenage boy on the telephone. It was just a long series of different grunts....

20, blimey, that's a prolonged adolescence!! Send him away, to uni or to do charity work in the jungle overseas, as I did with my dses. With my dd1, I left the country myself.

Fizzbuzz, when The Neighbour emerges to forage, it's the = of a real neighbour borrowing a cup of sugar, hehe.

I don't think boys return from the strange alien land until they are 21. Then they can manage to string at least 2 words together.

Perhaps the word count goes up with age?