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We’re fostering a mom cat and her five kittens. My (newly turned) 15 year old daughter really wanted to do this since we can’t adopt right now, so we let her take full responsibility. She handles the adoption emails (we’re copied on them), communicates with the kitten foster counselor, feeds them at night and on weekday mornings, cleans their litter box, and tidies her room every night since kittens make a huge mess. They live in her basement room at night but are allowed upstairs during the day. My 12-year-old also helps sometimes, especially on weekends when her sister sleeps in until 9 or has a sleepover.

On weekdays, my older daughter wakes up at 6 a.m. to get ready and take care of the cats and goes to bed around 10–11. Yesterday, the mom cat had a spay appointment at 8 a.m., so I woke up at 7 to get ready. My younger daughter was up too since she was coming with me. At 7:30, I went to the basement and turned on the lights to wake up my older daughter so she could feed them. I didn’t want my younger daughter doing it since my older daughter had wanted the responsibility.

When I woke her, she asked why her sister, who was already playing with the kittens, couldn’t feed them. She said she gets up at 6 every weekday and just wanted one morning to sleep in. She said she’d only gotten five hours of sleep the day before after haven woken up early the day before to go to Costco with me, and had even declined a sleepover to rest. She said she’d mentioned wanting to sleep in, but I told her that didn’t excuse her responsibilities and that she should just go to bed earlier.

Before I left, she yelled that I “can’t be talking” since I wake up at 8 every morning. I found that disrespectful because while I do wake up at 8 on weekdays, I also work a job and take care of three kids (the youngest is 8).

Who’s in the wrong here?[/quote]

are you obese? who gets up at 8 on a weekday?[/quote]
I’m not OP, but I’m curious why you asked if she’s obese? I get up at 6:30 in the morning, but it’s not like that’s keeping me thin.[/quote]

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