Embarassing Your Teenage Children

[scarlett]

I don't have those problems, Mystery....I've always told mine I'm in my 20's and it's only now that DS1 is questioning the maths.

[mystery]

Honesty is clearly my downfall. But, in case I have misled you, I am not old enough for an Age Concern meeting, just yet.

[scarlett]

Just the Womens Institute , then.

[scary mum]

I asked my mum if she trained with Florence Nightingale

[scarlett]

Actually, my DD did ask me once what The Great Fire of London was like...but I like to think she was just mixed up with the dates.

[KS10]

We walked past an Age Concern meeting at the Leisure Centre the other day and my daughter (not yet teenage by a long chalk so I have worse to come) asked why her swimming teacher (who is younger than me) wasn't at it.

I am fairly old but clearly have the mentality of a teenager. I had to read this several times before I understood what mystery was saying. I was wondering why mystery's daughter was interested in her swimming teacher's s*x life.

[Doblinski]

I was soooo embarrassed when my Mum attended parents evening at my secondary school on her way out for the evening. She wore a pencil skirt with enormous split, stockings with seam up the back, 6 inch peeptoes and worst of all - a see though black top that showed her lacy bra.

I tried to act as if I didn't know who this woman was and was clearly surprised when I found her sitting next to me talking as if she knew who I was!! Really wanted a Mum in long A line, nice cardy and pearls!

[push-pull-mum]

We walked past an Age Concern meeting at the Leisure Centre the other day and my daughter (not yet teenage by a long chalk so I have worse to come) asked why her swimming teacher (who is younger than me) wasn't at it.

I am fairly old but clearly have the mentality of a teenager. I had to read this several times before I understood what mystery was saying. I was wondering why mystery's daughter was interested in her swimming teacher's s*x life.

What were you thinking went on at those Age Concern meetings, KS10?

Maybe we've all got more to look forward to in old age than we realised.

[KS10]

It was the phrase 'at it'. A friend emailed me a spoof exam paper recently with that expression in it so it must have been somewhere at the back of my silly little mind.

[scarlett]

Mmm... no use making excuses now, KS10...you have lowered the tone of the thread...no the whole forum.