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[quote=Anonymous]quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you and your spouse are your children’s b! tch. The 9th grader can babysit the other two for date nights. They can all do chores. It’s BS to say they do not do it right and best to do it your own. My teen son tried that on the lawn. He cut the front and back and half@ssed it. We made him go right back out and do it two more times. Trust me, he cut it perfectly ever since then. He tried it with the dishes. We woke him up at 3am when we found out and he washed those dishes right ever since then. Your vegetarian kid can eat a frozen meal on the days that you all have meat. Why are you catering to all their food wants? The kids should not have guest/friends over if the house is not clean before and after. [/quote]

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I grew up in a large family and the kids did all the chores. Alll of them. We’d be assigned a chore to do and it was our responsibility to do it. Eventually someone would have a breakdown/mini revolt because they were tired of their assigned chore and then we’d all rotate chores until the next revolt. By the time I left for college, I could actually take care of myself and was shocked by the number of kids who could not. For dinner, kids were all assigned a day of the week to make food for everyone. I almost always made tacos. One of my siblings always made french toast. It was great and nobody ever complained about meal time. No one special food restrictions were humored. I didn’t really like most meat as a kid and would have been a vegetarian if it would have been accommodated in my home but it was not, so I was never a vegetarian until I was an adult.

Your kids still do a lot of activities. I know it will probably be an unpopular thing to say, but I think the music lessons are a waste of time. I grew up in a musical family, and my siblings and parents are professional classical musicians, directors of music related non-profits, high school music teachers, etc. and your kids aren’t getting enough music time for it to actually be worth the hassle.

Your house would be easier to manage if you get rid of the clutter. Get the crap out of your house and you aren’t constantly moving it around trying to find a place for it to go…

And finally, my husband is the sort who has boundless energy, and what’s obvious to me is that he has impeccably healthy habits that help tremendously. He’s fanatical about protecting his sleep. He eats incredibly healthily - no added sugar, no takeout, plant forward vegetarian, no alcohol, etc. He exercises every single day, biking and/or swimming (almost always taking our kid with him). He goes goes goes all day long, and finally gets tired in the 30 minutes before bed. I do none of those things, sleep badly, eat moderately poorly, exercise intermittently, etc and am always tired.
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