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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe some of you still pack lunch for your teens?  Don’t you want them to be independent adults someday?

My teen not only packs his own lunch, he also does his own grocery shopping using his own money he has earned from his job (but only for the foods that he can’t grow himself in our yard - don’t worry, he pays us rent for both the land and his room).

He also does his own laundry, cooks all of his own meals, and cleans his room and all common areas immediately after he uses them.  He is not old enough to drive yet so we charge him the standard government mileage rate for wear and tear on our vehicles, plus an hourly rate when we drive him to/from places like school, sports, the grocery store, and the coal mine.

Most of you sound like you’re raising helpless snowflakes, to be honest.  Do your teens even know how hunt and forage?  Start a fire?  Build a shelter?  If not, you’re a failure as a parent.[/quote]

Sadly some parents do this. [/quote]

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