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[Jules.]

This thread has made me My 12yo is rapidly developing into a fridge monster.

But I don't get the Billy Connolly joke as I've not seen that one......enlighten me?

[The Dogmother]

Made me laugh too as I remember being like that and keeping odd hours too.... 30 years ago that is!

 

A couple of years back (when I still had a spare room) I had a friends teenage daughter to stay for a few months while she was seconded on a project in Oxford. We had a fab time, with all the attendant mess and bare fridge, she was great fun though and I loved it when her friends were round too.

[Lesley]

This thread has made me My 12yo is rapidly developing into a fridge monster.

But I don't get the Billy Connolly joke as I've not seen that one......enlighten me?

 

I've sent you a PM Jules

[Ms Marple]

This thread has really made me laugh out loud (sorry is that supposed to be lol?) I thought girls would be easier than boys - clearly not. My ES has arived back from uni a month ago and all his belongings are still in the hall, in the dining room, in the car, in the spare rooms........everywhere. We are in chaos as it is having had no kitchen for nearly 6 weeks now so I find it harder to think of places to hide things so they last at least a few hours before disappearing. Like the others have said before me - I don't know where they put it all- he is now 6'4'', 6 packed and generally rippling with muscle and eats copious amounts of cake, likes to go out and run and then come back and hoover up- but only food

[Seagazer]

I have an 18 year old son like that, constantly in the fridge door moaning that there is nothing to eat. I know I say, you've eaten it all. I'm getting fed up of going shopping. Trouble is he snacks so much and then doesn't like what I'm cooking for dinner! Mind you I don't cook anything different now - he has to do it himself.

 

We go through packs of 9 loo rolls so quickly, its ridiculous and its usually just me here and the 3 boys - what do they do with it.

 

Got DD back from uni so she is into cooking herself a full on lunch and then maybe having dinner later. Trouble is of course she doesn't alway tidy up after herself and the dishwasher is still broken. I had a major melt down during the week about it all so they have been a bit better.

 

Do love them lots though.

[Valkyrie]

Like Lesley's son, mine keeps the same hours for sleep. Keeps everyone else awake by slamming doors, cookers, fridges, freezers in a quest for food hunting and going outside to smoke (not allowed indoors - I was hoping the cold weather and rain would stop him smoking). He looks like a matchstick with the wood s"Ooops, word censored!"ed off. I can't even get my fingers in his skinny jeans they are so narrow (to turn round the right way after washing - not with him still in them). He buys children's clothes - except as he is over 6ft tall, the arms look rather short on hoodies!

Food wise can range from several types of Pot Noodle ( but the left over pots do very nicely to sow beans and other veg in), pizza - and it has to be Waitrose ones, not cheap ones. Then bread. Bread has to be Kingsmill and not the 50/50 - it must be WHITE and not that nice bread from the bakers in Old Basing either - sometimes home made, depends on the mood. Cheese that gets opened and not sealed up so that the edges go hard. Pickle, coleslaw, mayo - we seem to get through an awful lot of mayo - and so many jars that aren't finished reside in the fridge. McCains oven fries, not home made - they have to be slightly burnt - same as the pizzas. Occasionally he will have homemade food - roast is favourite and pasta with a ton of parmesan and then he only eats some of it. If the bolly part didn't have meat in it, it would go to the hens, but he keeps it in his room until either I nag or it has grown a carpet on it. Same for tea - which now has to be Earl Grey. Teabags also in a state of decay. Where are bowls, plates, cutlery? In his room. Cleanliness. Well apart from not washing hands after the loo, he does spend an abnormal time in the shower (probably thinks that all that soap and water makes him immune from hand washing later). I'm glad we aren't metered yet. Shampoo and conditioner - several are used up per week. His hair isn't that long and he uses more than me. And it has to be the chocolate smelling Lynx deodorant, which is used like a shower too. He's 19.

DD at 17 also uses loo rolls for makeup, although the cotton wool is used for nails. Nail varnish everywhere - loo seats, taps, walls in varying shades. Hair dye is similar (for both DD and DS). Shoes, everywhere. She came home with 2 more pairs after getting another two in the post. Overall she is clean, but not tidy. Clothes are everywhere. College work everywhere. Hair stuff everywhere and so many hairbands go up the hoover clogging the brushes. And she is rather clean (except when she cooks and leaves all the washing up for someone else to do.

[chickencam]

My son thinks hand washing doesn't apply to him , putting them under the tap and making them wet is as near as he gets, but when I do stand over him he uses so much soap he almost disappears behing the bubbles

 

As for his room, it is scattered with plates, glasses, chocolate wrappers, and manky screwed up socks etc.

[Valkyrie]

I forgot - DS actually does use his washing basket - clothes are no problem here. Oh well, it's a start.

[chickencam]

I gave my son a pop up washing basket but that didn't work either. I just have to wait for him to run out of clothes, but that doesn't seem to bother him either he just recycles them, until we complain about his smelly socks , fortunately he has quite sweet feet for his age

[bluekarin]

I'm feeling a little pale about what is going to happen in my house in the next few years. Mine are 12, nearly 11 and 10 (girl, boy, girl). ED is already a teenager-in-training in attitude (shes not that bad, just some things she says, especially when on the phone to her friends). I feel more grey hairs coming on - better get stocked up with the hair dye.

[Valkyrie]

Perhaps we're related Scrambled! Seeing as a lot of that fits my son to a T!

[The Dogmother]

Rosie is only 11 (I came late to motherhood) so I have al this to come

 

The 3 little boys who I nannied for are now all grown up - I missed out on the teenage years - and getting engaged - gorgeous big hunks of men they are too

[Yorkshire Pudding]

I have just gone very pale. I have two boys.

 

ES is ten and has already begun most of this.... until now he has been lovely. Best stock up the fridge and batten down the hatches for the next 15 years or so

[jlo]

DS is almost 15. His room is not too bad at all apart from a few clothes draped over his desk.

 

DD - on the other hand - is 12 going on 19. Her room is ....how can I describe it in a way that is acceptable on a family forum No - I can't. It is appalling.

 

I am sure that when I was at school we had exercise books. At their school they have countless bits of paper that they have to stick into their books. Most of them are scattered around her room. I don't know what is important and what isn't so I daren't just chuck the lot in the bin.

 

Neither am I much impressed with nail varnish on the carpet!

[Seagazer]

Koojie - you could have been writing about my son! I think I will get him his own laundry bin as the pile on his bedroom floor is covering 80% of the floor, 10% is my kitchen cutlery, plates and glasses and the other 10% is rubbish because obviously his rubbish bin is overflowing and he couldn't possibly empty it.

[tooties]

well well ladies. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but button down the hatches for a long haul journey. William is 23 and ALL the things you describe - I don't know how they turn into this, its not how we raised them is it??

 

And if you DARE say anything, even as just a gentle reminder to bring down some glasses from his room to put in the dishwasher as there are none left in the cupboard - WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS MOANING AT ME, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT IN THIS HOUSE etc etc

 

On the plus side, he's still my gorgeous boy (that makes him sound really spoilt and hes not, honest!)

 

We've tried every tactic in the book apart from beating it out of him and none of them work.... but I'm sure things will change once they leave home. Otherwise pity their poor wives and husbands!

[Alis girls]

I have just baked and hidden the tin so that when he gets in he doesnt hoover up the contents till his younger brother comes in or they'll be hell to pay. I've shopped so no doubt his head will be in the fridge I dont understand fridge joke either - but am slow on uptake at times

[Valkyrie]

It does change when they get girlfriends over - at least DS doesn't play the field, and he does try to keep a relationship going - even if they argue!

He now has his own bins for recycling and rubbish (luckily he has a big bedroom). He even empties them (OK when he does they are overflowing a bit) into the outside collection of bins - he only does that because he doesn't want me going through it. So much ranting about looking in his private papers! I was only sorting out the recycling (and I rescued a couple of things when he was younger, like a brilliant story he wrote - I was in it too, although I was the Queen of the Trolls and a few toys). Other papers he shreds and that all ends up in the cube.

 

It all started at the age of 10. Up till then he was helpful and loving. But at 16 he was in complete denial. How dare I accuse him of smoking in his room - I can see it lit up in the dark and the smoke smell - plus all the stubs on the ground underneath the bedroom window, the ash on the window ledges and the fact that he'd stubbed it out on the window ledge and burnt the plastic somehow gives the game away.

 

Oh and he has a mini fridge in his room. We always said "nope" but current girlfriend bought it for a Christmas present.

[Chickvic]

My DD is 11 and my DS is 9 - DD already has a bit of the attitude going but I am dreading the full blown teenage years! DS only has a small room so it sounds like I'll be digging him out when he gets old enough

[poachedegg]

ES (18) loves eating Granny Smith apples - but he sounds like a horse when he eats them!!

[Cinnamon]

My girls are 14 & 16, & all this sounds oh so familiar to me.

 

Their rooms are a messy disgrace, they won't do anything around the house unless I tell them they have to (& threaten not to drive them to heir boyfriends houses), they can eat for England & the toiletries alone that they go through cost a fortune.We should have got shares in Freederm!

My eldest is between scool & college,won't get out of bed until midday & then complains of being tired all the time

She can just about force herself to play computer games all day log,with breaks every so often for Facebook catch ups.

 

But they are lovely too.Both tall & slim, one willowy,one curvaceous,one brunette,one blonde.

 

They do keep me young,I am sure of it!

[BarbaraJ]

Oh yes sounds very familiar here lol i have 22,20 and 18 yr olds girl, boy, girl. the oldest is the messiest and has just left for Australia for a year. She rang and said i tidied some of the mess but it came straight back and doesn't look any better i said welcome to my world.

My son lives in his room with his huge pile of clothes i refuse to wash and washes when he has to. None of them are allowed meals in their rooms, one of the few rules i have stick too lol dirty mouldy food plates are disgusting.

The youngest is pretty good, keeps up with washing and keeps her room tidy since elsest left.

 

I tend to shut the doors now ,

they wash and iron their own clothes and eat with us (i will plate and keep warm) or they buy food to cook themselves and girl friend/boy friend.

 

they get bought reasonable shower gel, shampoo but if they want branded special stuff they buy it themselves , so of course they buy their own lol

 

I'm quite surprised i haven't had the girl friend boyfriend stress yet. All 3 are still on their first proper b/g friends. Eldest 5 1/2 yrs, son 1 1/2yrs and youngest a year. Quite happy so far we haven't had major break ups but obviously that could still come !

[keyhole kate]

When I had all four at home my OH said the only place that had a bigger food bill than us was London Zoo

[Valkyrie]

On the plus side - everyone I have met (old and young) say OH is a really lovely boy. I am happy with that - but if only . . .

[Alis girls]

sorry to bring up this topic again - why is everything a drama with these little/big people. ES has blisters and whilst I am sympathetic the moaning groaning and language is a little fruity for my delicate ears. Thats just my son last week at work a 14 yr old girl was screaming the place down cos she had to have a needle I told her ear piercing hurt much more. I apprecaite some people are needle phobic but really some kids should have an oscar for the acting Oh I am just getitng old but thats another thread....... And before all the teenagers on the forum give me grief I was a bit of a drama queen myself but thats another story - just not a morning person esp Monday