Trying to keep my sanity in a house full of manly ball-scratching, burping, farting, and raised toilet seats.
Trying to keep my sanity in a house full of manly ball-scratching, burping, farting, and raised toilet seats. 
Sometimes I really don’t know where I went wrong with my boys or if this issue is more common than mothers want to admit. My sons have some nasty, gross, disgusting habits, as well as some annoying ones and I’m here to Out Them! Judge me if you please, but I’d much rather you provide suggestions or feedback as to how to get them to STOP the annoyances and nastiness!! Remember, these are my stumbles through parenthood, and besides, at the end of the day, I know my kids aren’t the only ones with nasty habits, I may just be the only one willing to admit it!! LOL!
**Disclaimer: The contents of this post may induce involuntary gastrointestinal reflexes. Proceed with caution.**
1. Peeing with the door open. I mean seriously? How hard is it to close the door? Do you have some kind of phobia that you have to keep the door open??
2. Peeing on the floor. How big does the damn hole have to be for you to shoot inside the toilet?? I wonder if they’re too old for those potty targets for toddlers learning how to pee?
3. Scratching your balls, playing with your balls, adjusting your balls, picking at your penis, hands down the pants, etc. Whatever it is you’re doing, I don’t want to see it! You make me think you have some kind of infection! And this goes for all guys!
4. Bloody pimple pus on the mirror. Honestly, does it get any more gross than that?
5. Bloody pimple pus on the shower towel!!! Yeah, I guess it does!!
6. Dirty/Sticky hands. Which are then used on the refrigerator door handle, bedroom and bathroom door knobs, walls, couches, etc. I mean, I don’t want germaphobes who HAVE to wash their hands every minute, but c’mon, if you have BBQ sauce on your fingertips DON’T OPEN THE REFRIGERATOR DOOR (or any other door for that matter)!!
7. Shower Towels. How difficult is it to hang up your towel back in the bathroom after you have taken a shower? Why is there this need to accumulate 6-8 towels in your room because your too lazy to hang it up after you’re done with it? The worst part is when I step out of the shower only to discover that I have no towel because someone used it and yup, you guessed it, left it in his room.
8. Used floss sticks, kleenex and Q-tips on the floor. Seriously, how hard is it to throw them INSIDE the waste basket!! The worst part is that most of the time these used items are on the floor right around the base of the waste basket. Obviously we have issues with aiming!
9. Nose picking. No matter how many times you tell me you’re pulling your nose hairs, I’m not going to believe you, and even if you were pulling nose hairs, I DON’T WANT TO SEE YOUR FINGERS UP YOUR NOSE! (would it be considered abuse if I slightly pushed his finger up his nose while he was doing it?? lol)
10. Hair. Hair in the sink, hair in the tub, hair on shower walls…and please don’t ask where those hairs are coming from, because personally, I DON’T want to know!!
Peace Out!
-Natasha Olivera
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My journey into motherhood began when I was 17 years old. Today, I am the mother of two teen boys, 15 and 13, and I am one of the only moms "blogging" about raising teen boys. On this blog, which I like to call a "blogory", I share my candid, poignant, sometimes humorous, but always real, short stories about my stumbles through parenthood as a young mother raising two teen boys while coping with living in a house full of testosterone. My parenting philosophy revolves around honest, no holds barred communication, where no topic is off limits, mixed with an enormous sense of humor. Peace Out! -Natasha Olivera
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I was hoping that the aim issues in my household (with two boys) would sort out soon…but your post hasn’t left me much hope now! I thought teenagers would be better about closing the door and picking up/throwing out the used tissues. Clearly I need suggestions, too.
Boys can be so gross!
Some things that I would probably do to solve the problems:
1) peeing with the door open. Whenever i catch my brother peeing with the door open i just go and get cell phone to snap a picture to try and embarrass him. He quickly shuts the door when he sees i’m running to go get a camera.
2) My brother never pees on the floor. BUT he used to do something else that was kind of annoying, he used to leave his tooth brush next to the sink instead of putting it on the toothbrush stand, anytime i found the tooth brush off the toothbrush stand i would take his toothbrush and poke him really hard in the ribs so it would teach him to put it back where it was supposed to be and it worked. So maybe you could threaten to clean the piss off the floor with their tooth brushes next time that you find it. or do some sort of negative punishment to change their behavior.
3) hands in the pants. i would probably tug at their hair or ears to make them stop.
4) pimple on mirror. thats disgustinggggggg. maybe take a picture, put it on Facebook and tag them with a caption claiming it was them. if they untag. then re-tag
5) ewww
6) maybe lead random hand sanitizer in the house. or do something like, if you find something on a door handle in the house, then you take the remote control to the TVs away for a week.
7) If they don’t wanna hang it up, then just take it away from them. haha no shower towel for you .
9) I don’t know.
10) hair is so disgusting. how about anytime you found hair anywhere, then you would take away the shoe laces from all their shoes. or take away the phone chargers
I LOVE THESE IDEAS!!! LOL!!
I’m guilty of all 10 counts. It’s just a boy thing.
Ok hate to say it but …………small white splotches in there bed sheets at about waist level starting around 12 years old. Yes it is what you think it is. You need to put a box of tissues or paper towels next to there beds and ask them to use them and if that doesnt work put condoms on there beds to send the message. If your finding this in the boys beds then you know it’s time to give them condoms anyhow , better in there beds than into young girls.