When Your Teen Realises You've Been Winging it All Along

At some point in every teenager’s journey, the terrible truth hits them like a half-flushed toilet at a music festival in the middle of summer:

Parents really don’t know what they're doing. Never have. Never will.

The all-knowing, Wi-Fi-controlling, bedtime-enforcing deity of their childhood — has been winging it since Day One. And now? The jig is up.

This guide is for that moment. That horrifying, hilarious, beautifully awkward moment when your teen finally realises the truth that has been staring them in the face all along - you’re not a wise parental wizard with a secret instruction manual — you’re just a slightly tired adult who googles things like “how to turn on family filters” and hopes for the best.
And honestly? We think you’re doing a fantastic job because of that fact.

This is your survival guide for what happens after the parenting mask slips — the confusion, the questions, the inevitable “Wait… you never knew what you were doing?!” screaming meltdown. We’ll laugh, cry, and relive real-life disasters that prove every parent is, at best, a highly-trained improviser and unpaid actor.

You’ve raised a teen. You’ve made it this far. Let’s embrace the chaos together — one eye-roll and kitchen-floor life lesson at a time.