My "Brilliant" Teen...stories (for fun)

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We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

In her defense, some 7 year olds can speak with a great deal of authority. Mine aren’t like that, but I’ve had a couple kids over and they speak with such certainty that they have me second-guessing themselves. Good for them, they’ll probably go far in life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

In her defense, some 7 year olds can speak with a great deal of authority. Mine aren’t like that, but I’ve had a couple kids over and they speak with such certainty that they have me second-guessing themselves. Good for them, they’ll probably go far in life.

Plus some 7-year-olds DO know how to make slime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

In her defense, some 7 year olds can speak with a great deal of authority. Mine aren’t like that, but I’ve had a couple kids over and they speak with such certainty that they have me second-guessing themselves. Good for them, they’ll probably go far in life.

Plus some 7-year-olds DO know how to make slime.

My expectation is that she would have hesitated when the 7 yo pulled put sugar, flour and milk to mix with glue.

[Anonymous]

This is both sad tragic and funny all at the same time.

My 18 year old son was in the Center for Highly Gifted and the Math and Science Magnet for elementary and middle school. He graduated with 13 AP classes, entered undergrad as a sophomore and graduated with his Masters from grad school at 22.

That being said-
When he was 18 and in high school there was a student that died under horrific circumstances. There was a candlelight vigil the day after her death, and students met on the football field to release balloons into the air in her honor. My son, math and science protege, filled his balloon with air instead of helium (the kids had gone to the party store to buy balloons, he just brought one with him) and didn't know WHY his balloon didn't float and sadly hit the ground why everyone elses went up. I asked him had he never heard of helium in the Math and Science Magnet?

He also thought that Lions were boys and Tigers were girls of the same species.

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Anonymous wrote:We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

In her defense, some 7 year olds can speak with a great deal of authority. Mine aren’t like that, but I’ve had a couple kids over and they speak with such certainty that they have me second-guessing themselves. Good for them, they’ll probably go far in life.

Yes, they will become management consultants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is both sad tragic and funny all at the same time.

My 18 year old son was in the Center for Highly Gifted and the Math and Science Magnet for elementary and middle school. He graduated with 13 AP classes, entered undergrad as a sophomore and graduated with his Masters from grad school at 22.

That being said-
When he was 18 and in high school there was a student that died under horrific circumstances. There was a candlelight vigil the day after her death, and students met on the football field to release balloons into the air in her honor. My son, math and science protege, filled his balloon with air instead of helium (the kids had gone to the party store to buy balloons, he just brought one with him) and didn't know WHY his balloon didn't float and sadly hit the ground why everyone elses went up. I asked him had he never heard of helium in the Math and Science Magnet?

He also thought that Lions were boys and Tigers were girls of the same species.

When I was in college we were watching a Superbowl halftime show broadcast in 3D, so we were all wearing the glasses we got at 7-11 or other places. A math major (so a masochist, but not a dummy) walked into the room, looked at all of us, looked at the crowd on the tv screen - none of whom were wearing 3D glasses - and said, "How do they make it 3D for the people who are there?"

[Anonymous]

Most of these are not funny but OP's story is! Thanks OP.

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Anonymous wrote:A story from when I was a teen back in 2009. My friend ran the microwave while it was empty for 15 minutes as a timer, because she didn't know how to set the kitchen timer on the oven while baking cookies. She's lucky she didn't start a fire!

Oh my god my husband did this when we were in graduate school! Did start a fire. I guess I’m the dummy for marrying him anyway. (He handled it with grace- throwing it flaming into the snowy yard)

I put a cookie on a paper towel and microwaved it (this was also in college). Started a fire, one of my roommates used the fire extinguisher on it! One time I’ve ever seen a fire extinguisher used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son washed his chromebook with his laundry by mistake. When I questioned him how the chrome book got into the washing machine in the first place, he stated it was “in his laundry basket”. 🤯

And how did it get from the basket into the washer?!

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Anonymous wrote:DD made one of those mac-n-cheese cups in the microwave but forgot to put in the water. It caught on fire, and our house smelled like burnt pasta for days.

I accidentally did this in college...the smell was horrid!

Ok, I did something similar last month. It was the middle of the night, I was up way late catching up on work, and tried to make a Mac & cheese cup by the stove light without my glasses. Misjudged the “fill to here” line, and scorched the heck out of it. Didn’t smell all that bad, fortunately, but it melted the cup and poured starchy water all over the microwave.

I can do a two-fer. I left my I phone on top of my lunch when I put it in the microwave and nuked it last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We hired a college student to nanny for us during the pandemic. She's 19. Earlier this week I walked in from work and apparently my 7 yo had convinced her that she knew how to make slime. Both my 4 yo and 7 yo were elbow deep in a bowel filled with white glues, corn starch (not liquid starch), milk, sugar, food coloring, flour, and sprinkles. The 19 yo was convinced the 7 yo knew exactly what she was doing. :facepalm:

I told her next time she needed to google a recipe instead of believing the 4 and 7 yos.

In her defense, some 7 year olds can speak with a great deal of authority. Mine aren’t like that, but I’ve had a couple kids over and they speak with such certainty that they have me second-guessing themselves. Good for them, they’ll probably go far in life.

Yes, they will become management consultants.

LOL, so true. They'll hone that BS and provide it with such confidence you'll wonder how you even make it out the door each day without their input.

/former management consultant.

[Anonymous]

My usually very mechanically oriented teen used W-D 40 on his bicycle's brakes because they were squeaking. Then wondered why they weren't working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My usually very mechanically oriented teen used W-D 40 on his bicycle's brakes because they were squeaking. Then wondered why they weren't working.

Hope he was okay! Too funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son washed his chromebook with his laundry by mistake. When I questioned him how the chrome book got into the washing machine in the first place, he stated it was “in his laundry basket”. 🤯

Did it work after being dried off? Submerged in rice? I’ve washes a couple phones over the years and miraculously they worked afterwards.