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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually there is something wrong with this. You forget that the goal is raise your children to adulthood. Little things like planning out lunches, doing their own laundry, taking responsibility for cleaning up after themselves are all part of that. I guarantee your children are sorely lacking in independence if their mom is crowd sourcing how to make their everyday lunches extra special.

You sound fun..[/quote]

I don't disagree with this post.  I don't think the point of being a parent is to be "fun."  I will sometimes pack my teen's lunch if he is studying for a test or otherwise tied up, but he'll be out of my house in three years, and needs to be moving towards independence.  FWIW, he did a program at a college in another state last summer, and because we had been doing his laundry for him, struggled with staying on top of it and figuring out how to do it.  So now, we make him do some of his own laundry (he can put it in with ours sometimes), so that he's moving towards being a functional, independent adult.[/quote]

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