Practical Joke on your teens, what was your best one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ever since my son was born, I cannot stop thinking about playing a practical joke on him when he is older (like early teens).

I just wanted to see what you guys played on your teen daughters/sons.

One I heard was mom sneaked into son's bed in the morning to wake him up because her son never gets up on time and she just had it with him that morning.
As soon as son realizes that mom is in the bed with him, he jumped out of the bed, sort of screaming. Son's sister and farther all laughed.

This is meant for "fun" practical joke and nothing more than that. Thanks.

How is embarrassing your child and the whole family laughing at him "fun?"

If you need this explained to you, you will never get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ever since my son was born, I cannot stop thinking about playing a practical joke on him when he is older (like early teens).

I just wanted to see what you guys played on your teen daughters/sons.

One I heard was mom sneaked into son's bed in the morning to wake him up because her son never gets up on time and she just had it with him that morning.
As soon as son realizes that mom is in the bed with him, he jumped out of the bed, sort of screaming. Son's sister and farther all laughed.

This is meant for "fun" practical joke and nothing more than that. Thanks.

How is embarrassing your child and the whole family laughing at him "fun?"

If you need this explained to you, you will never get it.

if you think embarrassing a teen (or for that matter anyone)!is "fun" then you are the one who doesn't get "it" (e.g., kindness, compassion, understanding). You ate probably the same person who ridicules the teased who gets upset by telling them they can't take a joke, get over it, or lighten up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practical "jokes" too often have an element of cruelty to them. I can't believe you have "always" wanted to do this to your child.

+100. You people should be ashamed of yourself.

You people are handicapping your children with your rigidity.

Choosing not to make our teens the butt of jokes isn't rigid. Most teens have enough negativity to deal with without the family piling it on, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practical "jokes" too often have an element of cruelty to them. I can't believe you have "always" wanted to do this to your child.

+100. You people should be ashamed of yourself.

You people are handicapping your children with your rigidity.

Choosing not to make our teens the butt of jokes isn't rigid. Most teens have enough negativity to deal with without the family piling it on, too.

Your kid will be uptight and unable to take a joke.

[Anonymous]

Practical jokes have their root in passive aggression

[Anonymous]

Punctuation has its roots at the ends of sentences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practical "jokes" too often have an element of cruelty to them. I can't believe you have "always" wanted to do this to your child.

+100. You people should be ashamed of yourself.

You people are handicapping your children with your rigidity.

It's one thing to spontaneously play a little trick or fool around. It's quite another thing to be looking forward/planning a practical joke SINCE YOUR CHILD WAS BORN. That's called an obsession. It's downright creepy.

And by the way, I actually have a handicapped child. There's nothing "handicapping" about not wanting to play practical jokes on your child. And yes, I am the PC police.

[Anonymous]

Replaced my DD's stash with oregano. After they had been down in the basement long enough enough I yelled "When will the spaghetti be ready."

Told them what I had done and we all got stoned together and made a late night run to McD's with her friends.

[Anonymous]

Noticed DD had gone on the pill. Replaced pills with salt tablets. Now she's pregnant. Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

One night I was having my friends over for a little cocktail party when I noticed, or should I say they noticed, our top shelf vodka, Grey Goose of course, had been watered down.

It was the start of the football season so we decided to fill his Gatorade bottle and water bottles with vodka.

He had his best game and ran for 210 yds. He got a full ride to an Ivy so I guess it kind of worked out.

[Anonymous]

Our DS started dating the girl next door. It was hot and heavy and they were torrid as an August afternoon. We even caught them flashing one another and climbing house to house late at night. Here's the good part.

A number of years ago the woman next door came over and told me that she and her hubby were having a problem. He was, in her words, shooting blanks and she wanted to have another child. We weren't into one another but she begged me to help her conceive and we would keep it between ourselves. Neither of us would tell our respective spouses. So we got together and had a couple of bloodless bangs, we really weren't into one another, and sure enough she became pregnant. Wew winked when they came home from the hospital and all was well.

Abt. the same time my wife became pregnant and we had a boy and of course the child next door turned out to be a girl. All good. They were friends from the start but went to different schools, Big 3 of course, and were interested in different things.

And then high school started. Bam, pow. They both grew up and are both beautiful but more alarmingly they have fallen madly in love with one another. As a doctor I checked and genetically it should be okay if they ever decide to marry. We know they've hooked-up, found evidence, and my wife and her husband are actively promoting the relationship, we taken her on vacations and vice versa.

Is this wrong? Both of us are sworn to secrecy and would never tell a soul but sometimes we feel bad about this arrangement. But, as Selena Gomez sings, "The Heart wants what it wants."

I don't consider this a joke but it is full of irony. To see my son cuddling on the living room couch with his half-sister is troubling at times but we've grown to live with it.

What would you do?

[Anonymous]

Wow. That's quite a story. However, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Nature will eventually take it's course and they'll move on. Hopefully, they're headed to different colleges.