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Reply to "I’m taking a break from kitchen clean up and dishwasher duties. Teens said they would take over but it’s always ‘later’."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, my kids were alternating taking care of the dishwasher emptying but they sleep later than me and always want to do it"later" so it's annoying to have dirty dishes pile up with no place to go. I may switch them to different chores but I'm not sure which ones.[/quote] My tweens had plenty of chores, but my teens were just too busy and on such unusual schedules for it not to end in situations like this that annoyed me (even the nagging or having to impose consequences annoyed me). The one thing I still have them do?? A lot of their own laundry -- there is tons of flexibility in WHEN it can be done, and it really doesn't affect me in the slightest. [/quote] Op here. My kids do their own laundry. Occasionally one will ask me to do his, but not often. But I’m realizing there is a lot of hidden work that I do that they don’t appreciate (things like running and emptying the dishwasher every single night/AM, making sure the house is stocked with food and essentials, etc) and I want them to understand that this stuff takes time and isn’t ’my job’. They’re adults (or close to it). [/quote]
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