How to embarrass your teen.

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It's my DH's new hobby and he needs all your ideas! (Might culminate in a new guide for the disgruntled parent of teens!)

1. Hang variety of family's pants on the radiators around the house when said teen's friends are about to visit.

2. Meet teen's boy/ girlfriend at the door with a clipboard and a list of questions to ask before they are allowed to enter the house.

3. Carelessly leave bath time baby snaps somewhere prominent.

your turn

I like showing off my Beyonce dance moves on the slippy kitchen floor

My Dad 'body pops' whilst singing beastie boys in the middle of tesco.

My sister (15) cringes and scarpers, I piss myself laughing and have been known to join in

Talk 'street' to them.

or say groovy a lot.

Isn't it as easy as being seen with them in public?

The Dad in the Sky 1 show Modern Family is very good at this.

kiss your dp

run up the street after them with a bobble hat

Sing

my Dad farts and blames my sister in the middle of Tesco. Think body popping may be more embarrasing though

breathing, just talking etc is just enough to embarrass most teens isn't it?

Wear a bandana [[http://www.operationnogangs.org/_webimages/manbldu.jpg gangsta style'

and say 'Yo wanna cuppa tea, G?'

Offer lifts to your 13 yr old and her friends.

Put on radio 1.

Sing loudly.

Knowing all the lyrics to Lady Ga Ga or JLS will impress them no end.

Aso do all the above but swear like a fishwife at other drivers.

I find that works a treat.

gangsta style

I take mine to music festivals and gigs where I drink pints and dance but I have yet to better the girl in her early 20s who came up to DS2 (age 15) at a gig last summer and drunkenly asked if he was a virgin.
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He said yes....... and is still blushing now!

Have a poster of Justin Timberlake in the kitchen and keep refering to him as 'Justin Trousersnake' with a 'knowing' look.

when they have friends over go change into something really "hip"

have trousers thaht show boxers and some right on bands t shirt or something.

go into the bedroom and fake sex noises.

Ask the checkout operator on a date on behalf of them.

I am the master of embarrassing my teenage siblings just by being me.

Mock their music of choice in front of their friends, in a way that ytheir friends will find hilarious

Police tape their bedroom door with biohazard stickers

Call ALL boyfriends Wayne, regardless of their names.

Thanks Dad

Coldtits, My DH is called Adam, my dad refuses to call him that, he is known to my dad as Eddie

Let them out of the car, wait until they are halfway to the rugby pitch and shout, "Love you, Pumpkin," really loudly.

Ask their friends if they are sexually active.

Dance in front of their fronts

Use last year's teenage slang, preferably out of context

Imply that you've had sex at some point in your life

Just got back to this thread (Went out last night just after original post.)

Some excellent ideas- I am making notes.

Disenchanted-My husband does the gangsta thing (including silly walk)when we are out- it drives DD mad!

Talk to her friend.

I bear down on them slightly manic eyed 'helloooo, how are you, have you had fun at school?' whilst dd gives me The Look.

Singing in public.

Dancing in the car in a freaky fashion whilst at traffic lights ("DON'T mum")

Calling Sainsbury's Sainsbos. For some reason she bloody hates that.

I have been told that I am under no circumstances to talk to her friends/ ask them questions. I am to avert my eyes when friends arrive and disappear into the kitchen to provide refreshments.

If the refreshments are received by said friends in silence I do the usual "What do you say?..."

On meeting daughter's boyfriend for the first time, feign normality until BF is nervously perching on sofa with a cup of tea. On finding out that BF's mother is pregnant, MAKE SURE to make multiple speculations about likely sex of the baby based on how much sex BF's parents are having, and resulting (gag alert) freshness of sperm. Ignore appalled silence.

That was what my mum did anyway.

ElephantsAndMiasmas

My dad asked if I was going to boil my head tonight (read, steam my face with his new-fangled steam thing that he loved)