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[quote=Anonymous]I have had a housecleaner since I graduated law school in 2006. I've cleaned toilets periodically since then - if someone vomits, when we've moved and haven't found a housecleaner, for several months during covid.  But it's very rare to have a number 2 that can't be cleaned with a few flushes, so I'm not cleaning between the housecleaner visits.  I work a ton at my job (in a service industry! Often with clients treating me like crap) and make seven figures. I don't want to clean my house or mow the lawn on the weekends.

And honestly, my kid with ADHD barely does chores around the house.  It's not worth the effort, and there aren't that many chores to do. Clean up his dishes (often only because I yell at him; he's terrible about remembering himself), sometimes I make him clean his room or make his bed, or fold laundry.  We have a lawn service, so with the housecleaner, there just aren't that many chores.

Sometimes I consider that I'm raising a lazy kid.  But honestly, I grew up with a sahm who did all this stuff and never asked us kids to do anything.  Despite that, the day I left home I was still hardwired to work hard and keep a clean house.  My sister has a totally different personality and did not. Eventually (maybe age 30) she developed more internal drive to be clean and handle chores.  We grew up in the same house, neither of us having real chores.  DS is probably going to grow up being terrible at chores - but that's going to be because he has severe ADHD, and not because I didn't make him do chores. If I made him clean toilets now, it would just be more work for me to oversee the whole process and wouldn't teach him anything. He wouldn't suddenly wake  up and be dedicated to chores or have a new outlook.

So I will keep on having my housecleaner and lawn guy come. [/quote]

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