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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids do this. I just keep putting it back on them over and over again. Like did you look for it?

Or I’ll say hey I’m really busy so I’m not able to help with that now, but let’s revisit it on Saturday when I have time.

Usually they’ve forgotten by then or figured it out themselves.

I am not here to be their servant.[/quote]

OP here.  How old are your kids?  I figured by age 10, DD wouldn’t make so many unnecessary requests, but I guess not?  My siblings and I were latchkey kids who never asked anything of our parents, so I don’t have a good sense of what’s normal.[/quote]

Pp. I have boys ages 9 and 8.

Maybe I’m more extreme on this than other parents but part of why I refuse to drop everything for them all the time is because I don’t want them to think that it’s the job of women to just serve them.

The requests have definitely gone way down though over time, when they don’t work and I just kinda stay checked out/disengaged from them. 
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