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- How a dishwasher actually works.
It needs space! It needs for nothing to foul the spinning rotor things! Just chucking stuff in like you are a racoon on meth* only gets things wet, not clean!
- How a washing machine actually works.
Cramming every item that you have found on your bedroom floor in then needing to push the door closed with all of your body weight is not correct. See above^.
Tried and failed sooooo many times.
Many years ago I tried to tell my lad that the best way to tackle certain terrain on his bike was to stand up. Did he listen? He did not. Then we went out for a ride with @NBT and @Bunnyhop and Julian casually said: “It would be easier if you stood up”. So he did.
Therefore, if anyone wants to come round and tell my kids how to load a dishwasher drop me a line.
*Not my analogy, but I’m stealing it.
"Random bloke syndrome". I find this quite a lot both in personal experience and in stories from friends just like this: You can try multiple ways to explain something without any apparent effect, but when some unknown random voices the same idea it's gospel truth and the onyly way forward. Take the win...
It's so hard being perfect,but every day it's the cross I carry. 😉 🤣 🤣 🤣
I agree with dishwasher and washing machine suggestions. As a dad of x3 teenagers, can I please add the following:
Shoes cannot move themselves. It really doesn't take much time or energy to place them on the rack, rather than leaving them on the floor next to the shoe rack
If you really love the dog as much as you say you do, then you should walk her without acting like doing so is the worse punishment in the world
Toilets are not self cleaning, that brush next to the toilet is not there for decoration
Devices do not charge themselves by some kind of magical osmosis, merely from being inside a building that has an electricity supply. You have to actually plug them in from time to time. Maybe now while you’re sat next to a plug socket. Just a thought…:
My daughter (now 22) still hasn't grasped that by not absolutely brimming her tea/coffee mug she then won't dribble said drink all the way up the bloody stairs as she takes it to her bedroom!
WiFi is NOT THE SAME as the Internet.
The washer bottle in your car a) hasn't moved since I last showed you where it was b) does not magically refill like it used to when you lived at home
The extremely metal-y Irony of being told your flatmate refuses to tidy up after herself while you're at home visiting surrounded by 3 days crockery and cutlery 😉
Shoes cannot move themselves. It really doesn't take much time or energy to place them on the rack, rather than leaving them on the floor next to the shoe rack
My sister has a nice shoe rack thing just inside her front door. And every day, her two girls will get home from school or wherever they've been, kick their shoes off into random places around the hallway and then rush into the kitchen to raid the fridge. And every single day they get chased out of the kitchen to go and put their shoes IN THE RACK.
And every single day they'll complain bitterly about this and my sister will respond with the earth-shattering lesson that if they actually put them there in the first place....
The lesson has still not sunk home but I think it's only been 2 years so far, so give them time.
That's probably a candidate for the "disproportionately cross" thread too.
Devices do not charge themselves by some kind of magical osmosis, merely from being inside a building that has an electricity supply. You have to actually plug them in from time to time. Maybe now while you’re sat next to a plug socket. Just a thought…:
My daughter needs a USB chargeable blood sugar monitor for her diabetes. I have a power banks dotted all over The World because this vital device is always 10 minutes from running out of juice.
"How a dishwasher actually works.
It needs space! It needs for nothing to foul the spinning rotor things! Just chucking stuff in like you are a racoon on meth* only gets things wet, not clean!"
TBF I've tried to tell my wife this for 20+ years and she still doesn't understand. I'm sure she launches stuff into it from the other side of the kitchen.
I'd like to add tidying of a bedroom. More specifically my 12 year old. My 15 year old keeps his room absolutely immaculate - its the tidiest room of the house...
Most adults do not understand this.
"The WiFi is down"
"It's not, the WiFI is fine, the internet connection is down"
"? I can connect to WiFi but I can't get to Netflix"
"The WiFi is IN HERE and the Internet is OUT THERE"
"No I can definitely connect to WiFi, can you fix it?"
*shakes head sadly, heads to beer fridge*
If you answer "whatever" when asked what you want for dinner, don't be disappointed if you don't get what you wanted.
My daughter has always had a problem with shutting doors, turning off lights and flushing the loo. Since she was the age of three I have tried to help her with this but now aged seventeen, I have given up trying. My only hope is that when she goes to University, her flatmates have better success.
My daughter has always had a problem with shutting doors, turning off lights and flushing the loo. Since she was the age of three I have tried to help her with this but now aged seventeen, I have given up trying. My only hope is that when she goes to University, her flatmates have better success.
At university they will sit round talking about all the weird little things their dad's get apoplectic about.
The great thing about all the discussions above, is that in ~25 years, all the kids in question will be updating an internet forum* somewhere with a title very similar to "Things that you just can't teach your kids" 🤷♂️
* Or whatever the equivalent in 2050 happens to be
The great thing about all the discussions above, is that in ~25 years, all the kids in question will be updating an internet forum* somewhere with a title very similar to "Things that you just can't teach your kids" 🤷♂️
It works in reverse too.
When my grandparents went into care, my Mum had to clear out their absolute tip of a house and she moaned about what a state it was, why couldn't they tidy things up, why was there no filing system...
25 years later, her house is in exactly the same state. 🤷🏻♂️
That revision for A-levels should have started in earnest months ago, not last week - FFS
and +1 for "If you really love the dog as much as you say you do, then you should walk her without acting like doing so is the worse punishment in the world"
TBF I've tried to tell my wife this for 20+ years
I'm pretty sure my partner use it just a a excuse not to touch it now.. or just to annoy the **** out of me.
On a different approach to this, I wish as a teenager I had just realised if I did what was asked/expected of me, it would have been done and dusted and not dragged on for hours, caused arguments & stress all round.
It maybe should be noted that teenagers brains function differently from adults, so they do an excuse... not that I think it's a great one! 😀
I don't have kids but I do run a Scout group. I love it, they are (mainly) great, but by Christ they can be really, really thick.
Most adults do not understand this.
My sister moved into a new rental place after splitting up with her (then) husband. I helped her move in and stayed the night.
Next morning:
Her - "the WiFi's not working"
Me - "there is no WiFi. Have you done anything about getting broadband?"
Her - {blank look, like I was talking Klingon}
Whenever The Boy comes to visit, after he's left I spend the afternoon retrieving abandoned plates and glasses from various corners of the house. He turned 30 this year. I'm not even expecting you to wash up, just putting stuff somewhere in the vicinity of the kitchen would be helpful rather than having me on a really crap scavenger hunt.
Wisdom. That's something which has to be acquired - and often isn't.
I can tell when my neighbour is getting ready to go out as as I get treated to her questionable music pounding through the wall...
I have to tollerate it though, as to be fair it's only for about an hour or so, and she doesn't have late night parties or anything like that, so it could be worse. Plus I'm partial to occasional late night racing game sessions if I've been out for a few drinks and tend to have the music pumping a bit, so I'm probably just as bad.
It still irritates me but I've not really got a moral leg to stand on, which also irritates me.
That leaving pots in the sink to ‘soak’ is not at all helpful or useful it just means I have to empty the sink to be able to fill it up again to wash up after them also stuffing the washing machine so the stuff in the middle comes out dry FFS 24 and 29
What you need there is a washing-up bowl. 😁
How to close a door/drawer. Drawers (and cupboard doors for that matter) are constantly left wide open, and house doors/car doors are invariably slammed shut with enough force to lay Mike Tyson flat out.
Re pots in sinks, and drawers and doors - it's not that I can't teach them, it's just that their mum taught them her method first.
I have two boys, neither of whom seem to be able to lift the toilet seat or flush it when they're finished.
What to do with wrappers or empty boxes continues to evade them.
Washing goes in the basket, not next to it.
Shoe laces aren't single use.
Putting stuff away (i.e not the floor) when you've finished with it greatly increases your ability to find said thing when you need it next.
Knowing vs caring - Both my wife and my kids know how the dishwasher works - they just don't care. My wife would happily just put things in again and again and AGAIN in the vain hope that it would work this time.
Unfortunately, this is a common theme in much of life.
Putting stuff away (i.e not the floor) when you've finished with it greatly increases your ability to find said thing when you need it next.
I'd disagree slightly on this point. My office is a pigsty and I couldn't tell you what I had for lunch yesterday, but I have a near-eidetic memory for Stuff. I can immediately lay my hands on something I last saw ten years ago.
My partner is the diametric opposite, she'll put something away and then deny all knowledge that she's ever seen it. I lost a USB cable once ("I haven't moved it"), it eventually turned up in the kitchen cupboard next to the food mixer because obviously that's the natural place to hide store USB cables rather in the box upstairs which is literally labelled "USB cables."
As a father of teenage boys I'd say it's communication beyond a grunt or a few words. If I ask you a question its better to just actually give a complete answer rather than make me ask lots of follow up questions to get the info you knew I was actually asking for in the 1st place quicker and with less irritation (on both sides). Oh and you will not enjoy German and should have done Spanish instead
I have however trained the eldest in how to load the dishwasher which my partner just seems incapable of learning