Do your teenage children know your birthday ?

am i bovvered

Just found out over the last few days that my 19 year old son, 16 year old daughter do not know either my wifes or my own birthday dates. :0
I also just asked my niece 13 years who is staying with us the birthday of her Dad (single parent Dad) she also had no idea !!!
So... my opinion is its just the children in our family who are this inconsiderate.. my wife reckons teenagers these days don't know about these things.
So Boardsies living with teenagers carry out a on the spot pole and ask them the hard question... When is my birthday ?

Ihatecuddles

am i bovvered wrote: »

When is my birthday.

They don't know when your birthday is.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Don't ask your kids. Ask your mother.

punisher5112

Sure I can hardly remember me own.

Teenagers honestly wouldn't care about those facts wait a few more years and they will/should change.

wazky

Hate to break it to you but their obviously not yours, do they know the milkmans birthday?

El Weirdo

So you are bovvered?

ETA: Just asked my 9 year old daughter if she knew mine and her mother's birthdays. 2 from 2.

You are clearly an inferior parent, OP.

fineso.mom

I was feeling sorry for you until I asked my 13 yr old son just now....not a clue,,,well that's not true actually, he got the month right on the third try . It was only a few weeks ago ! I'm devastated

am i bovvered

El Weirdo wrote: »

So you are bovvered?

ETA: Just asked my 9 year old daughter if she knew mine and her mother's birthdays. 2 from 2.

You are clearly an inferior parent, OP.

Ha !!! I knew it. Now I can confirm to my wife that its just the teenagers in our family
My daughter just told me she knew our b-days at the age of 9 but by the age of 16 she has forgotten so watch put El Weirdo !

Electric Sheep

so it's not the norm to get a birthday card/present from the kids?

elefant

Fairly sure my auld lad isn't even sure of my birthday, and he was there was I was born.

SEPT 23 1989

Teenagers only seem interested in that rock and roll they play on the dam radio

Penny Tration

Myself and my siblings all knew our parents' date of births as teenagers. My kid sister is a teenager and knows both of my parents' birthdays, and those of myself and her other two sisters.

Mr. Incognito

“Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”

Assyrian tablet 2800 BC

You were the same as a kid

fergiesfolly

Think yourself lucky OP.
My teenager barely acknowledges my existence, never mind my birthday.:(

stimpson

My teenage kids don't even know where I live. Any more.

IrishEyes19

always knew my parents birthdays and got them presents, and Im 23. My younger siblings who are in school still do also.

gg2

I'm 25 and only know my dad's birthday, and that is just because it falls on another significant day. I don't know any of my siblings, my friends or my OH's, but thats just because I'm a dipsh1t with dates, honestly haven't the head for them, my mind is so full of other stuff..... Monkeys on bikes n stuff In fairness though I do know the month in which they all (or almost all) fall so I suss it out.......

fergiesfolly

Feel awful. Just asked her. She nailed it. No hesitation.
Bad Dad. Very bad Dad.


Or really good Dad. Depending on your point of view.


Probably down to hood Mam.

Lia_lia

Many of my friends haven't a clue when their parents/siblings birthdays are. It's a bit mad! I remember dates quite easily though. I still remember the birthdays of most of my friends from primary school

brummytom

I know my mom and dad's birthdays. How can you not? If I missed my mom's she'd kill me.

JuliusCaesar

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Assyrian tablet 2800 BC

You were the same as a kid

We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.

said King Naram Sin of Chaldea, 3800 years B.C

hah! 1000 years earlier!

But no, I always knew my parents' birthdays, and my children (now aged 22) know mine and always did.

FourFourRED

stimpson wrote: »

My teenage kids don't even know where I live. Any more.

You must be a great parent.

Savage Tyrant

They don't know the day I was born, but they sure as fućk know the day I get paid.

Witchie

Just asked my 16 year old son and he was able to tell me. *Smug smile*

C14N

I'm 20 so I'm disqualified but I knew all birthdays in my family as far back as I can remember, as can my younger brother and sister. I don't think my dad knows them so well though. I wouldn't know mother's or father's day for my life though.

meoklmrk91

I didn't know my parents birthdays really until a couple of years ago, the only reason I can remember my Dad's is because his insurance runs out on the same day and I'm always doing his tax for him on the motortax website.

I don't feel one bit guilty though my entire childhood is filled with him meeting his farmer friends them commenting on me as though I wasn't there ("fine, strong girl you have there") and then asking him what age I was, he's look flummoxed and then say "what are you? You're 12 aren't you?" To which I would reply "Dad, I'm 14". Repeat that story many times with different ages. He recently had an argument with me telling me I was only 22 when I am 23, it eventually ended with me telling him I was born in 1991, do the math!

Ficheall

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

"fine, strong girl you have there"

Have you a nice set of teeth and a decent pair of child-bearing hips?


I remember birthdays, but never ages, and usually have to work them out - my own often included.

vellakare

I know their birthdays and always get them something. Vice versa...

ronjo

I am a bit gobsmacked by this.

How the fcuk can a teenager not know when their parents birthday is????

Jude13

I know my Dads birthday is in May and my Mums in April. That's as close as I can pin down.

I guess it's because I don't celebrate my own to be honest. I don't really get why they are celebrated.

Jude13

Actually now I think of it my dads is in March, wups

Sunglasses Ron

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Teenagers only seem interested in that rock and roll they play on the dam radio

The kids, they listen to the rap music with gives them the brain damage, with their hippin and their hoppin and their bippin and their boppin.

efb

I always knew my family's birthdays

Dublinpato

Birthday's..not a pretty sight for the mother or the child. I'am just glad i don't remember the day i was born, i must of been on the booze the night before.

AdamB

I do not know my parents birthdays, I think they are both in October.. If I need to know my dad's I check his facebook but mother hid her DOB. I get a reminder text fom my sisters each year and always get my parents a present.
Dad was born in 1942, now I feel old.

ronjo

Jude13 wrote: »

I know my Dads birthday is in May and my Mums in April. That's as close as I can pin down.

I guess it's because I don't celebrate my own to be honest. I don't really get why they are celebrated.

So you dont buy them a card or present or buy your Mum flowers?

Maybe its because I live in a different country I always make sure to send them something. I dont particularly celebrate my own but my 3 year old loves birthdays so have started again in the last couple of years.

Antar Bolaeisk

Parents came up with a genius way to make us remember their birthdays, it was used as the password for a couple of things

anncoates

They're too young to know now but plenty of querulous and passive-aggressive veiled threats about paying their own way through college will be dropped when they're old enough.

biko

AH has posters with teenage kids?
"I remember when it was just teenagers around here".

Santa Cruz

am i bovvered wrote: »

Just found out over the last few days that my 19 year old son, 16 year old daughter do not know either my wifes or my own birthday dates. :0
I also just asked my niece 13 years who is staying with us the birthday of her Dad (single parent Dad) she also had no idea !!!
So... my opinion is its just the children in our family who are this inconsiderate.. my wife reckons teenagers these days don't know about these things.
So Boardsies living with teenagers carry out a on the spot pole and ask them the hard question... When is my birthday ?

They don't even know I'm their father.FFS

pickarooney

All my stupid family have their birthdays the same week and live in different countries. It's next week, and now I have to think up some presents, buy them, send them (or let Amazon do that bit). The hassle.

MonstaMash

No my kids couldn't give a fook when my birthday is & that's cool...just wait until their birthdays come around

miss no stars

My god seriously?

I knew when their birthdays were since I was very small, I know my brother's birthday, grandmother's birthday, ballpark times for aunts, uncles and cousins. Why wouldn't a teenager be able to retain two dates in their head?! They'd only not know if they actually didn't care about it.

tedobrien98

There was a fella in my class in primary school who knew EVERYONE'S date of birth. Not exaggerating, he knew it for the teachers, pupils, cleaners, pupil's parents... It was his talent and we used to quiz him.
He knew number plates aswell.

efb

tedobrien98 wrote: »

There was a fella in my class in primary school who knew EVERYONE'S date of birth. Not exaggerating, he knew it for the teachers, pupils, cleaners, pupil's parents... It was his talent and we used to quiz him.
He knew number plates aswell.

You were in school with Jimmy Magee???