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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else annoyed by all this perfectness? Piano playing? Hiking together? Deep talks at farmers market?[/quote]

You want a real answer... here you go.

My teen wakes up at 1pm and goes to the basement to binge watch something. [b]I bring him "breakfast".[/b]

Around 5pm he comes up from the basement and says are we doing anything today. Sometimes we are going to a cookout, sometimes not.

If I say we are going somewhere he showers and we go.
If I say we are not going anywhere he asks if I will order Chinese and we watch a movie together.

I go to bed at 9 and he plays video games until midnight. [/quote]

Why would you do that?  He's a teenager. He can make his own breakfast. What is he doing for you, or for the household?  It sounds like the answer is "nothing."  I would not make him breakfast.  If he were getting up at 6am each morning to help old people or be a camp counselor or do landscaping then sure, maybe I'd make THAT kid breakfast.  [/quote]

Because I like to... and he thinks it is funny.

He 
does his own laundry
feeds the dog
walks dog 15-20 min in am and in the pm
feeds the fish
unloads the dishwasher (we rotate so he does it 2-3 times a week)
takes his dishes to the sink (which I only mention because in the relationship forum some people actually thank their H for doing that which is pathetic)
takes trash to can, to the curb and back up
he takes recycle bin to the curb and back up
He is learning to cut the lawn but my H actually enjoys it so he doesn't do that
He helped me plant the garden, that is a 2 hour job every Spring
Helps H prune trees in the Spring and Fall

He watches the younger kids at the cookout that I mentioned above. About once a month we go to a cookout with the same group and there are smaller kids, he plays Basketball, video games and board games with them.

He works at a camp 2 weeks a summer, volunteers with Special Olympics in the winter and was a 1-1 camp counselor last summer (dates did not work out this year)

His summer will also end August 8ish ... he will be doing tryouts (some are 2 a days) in the heat of August in DC. [/quote]

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