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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all the thoughts and advice. I have the audio book of the "Yes your teenager is crazy" and I got about 1/2 way through (was getting repetitive). I'll try again.

Today was MUCH better. I wrote the list of chores and casually during breakfast I told them what they were and that they had to be done by 5:00. I said I hope that it didn't get to this but if they failed to get them all done, I would have to enforce a consequence and it would they would lose their phone the next day and still do the chores. I also told them some of the chores were new to them so I totally understood if they needed some help - just ask nicely I and I would be happy to help.

To my happiness, I stepped out of my office at 2:00 (I work from home) and chores were being done! They even had some questions and politely asked for help. We'll see if we can keep this up!

I think going over everything at a calm time of the day helped. I also think, to some extent, they know I'm not kidding around and they know their behavior the day before was bratty.

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