Teenage Son

Savvy_Sue

mycatdenzil wrote: »

My 16 year old DS is a lovely lad and great round the house, however he refused to come shopping with me one night and I really needed him to come along as I was buying a very heavy item.

I just quietly waundered round the house picking up every remote control and popped them in my handbag and zipped it up :rotfl:.

The sheer terror in his eyes when he realised the Sky+ remote had disappeared was magic:D.
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Turning off your wi-fi intermittently could be an evil alternative too!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:We bow to the mistress!

ska_lover

jamespir wrote: »

so whats changed from 10 years ago i dared not to go against ,my parents and if they said i couldnt go out i didnt


see weve taken discipline away instead of kids being scared of going against there parents its the othe way round now

You were obviously very well behaved then James. Not all teenagers are unfortunately - its veryyyyyyyy tough when you are a parent of one.

ska_lover

martinthebandit wrote: »

That begs the question then, what does he do for clean clothes?

Oh he cracks eventually when he is down to his last set of clean clothes...that means he will bring down probably three baskets worth of clothes in one go...(which winds me up!)..I always refuse to wash them in that instance, and point at the washing machine and tell him to crack on..

Ahh the joy of teenagers. We love um really. One day they will grow out of it!

ska_lover

alex21 wrote: »

In all seriousness, my son will only be at home for a couple more years and I don't want him to leave with the sound of shouting and nagging in his ears as I love him very much. My advice is to pick your battles but don't be made a fool of.

I couldn't agree more. Not everything is worth world war three.

peachyprice

jamespir wrote: »

i think some of the post are ott to be fair tell him to clean his mess up or he dont go out etc

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You are so funny.
Love to hear how you would stop a 17/18/19yo going out.

tillycat123

I have a 14 year old son, I'm sure I get a new grey hair every day. It's blummin hard work and I totally sympathise. He's just like the Harry Enfiend character, I can't remember what he was called. I told him this morning I'm sure he was swapped with another baby in the hospital when he was born. I'm so prim and proper, tidy and clean and house proud. He is the total opposite.

I work part time and they laugh at me when I say I have to collect him from school. He has come home on his own a few times when I have had to stay on. You would have thought we had been burgled, every cupboard open, food left out, sink full of dishes. That's just and hour home alone :eek:

The suggestion of putting the dishes in the bedroom, well you obviously have kids not like ours, I think I would find them all chucked out of the window on the garden if I did that or at the very least put outside the bedroom door.

Savvy_Sue

re the washing: mine start doing their own once they go into 6th form (ie after they're 16). That way there is no issue: I'm just not doing it any more.

They learn how and WHEN to do the laundry, ie before you put your last pair of clean pants on!

TheConways

Does he pay rent? Get him to pay rent as a contribution to the bills, now that he is old enough to earn money. If he doesn't have money, tell him that you'll loan him the rent money until he is working and then you can pay it back. Erect a white board in the kitchen/somewhere in front of him, and chalk up "weekly rent" costs (maybe 20 pounds a week contribution to the shopping/bills).

Explain to him that rent can be also paid by doing housework - five pounds an hour. Four hours of housework each week offsets all the rent.


(Don't sound shocked: my mother paid rent from the age of 17 to her parents).


I'm tough

red_devil

say one day you might be a father to teenagers what are you going to say and do? Turn it round on him.