Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Arrgh teen update
This is an update on the chore list for the teenagers post....well... so far so good.. sort of... number one reason for doing this was so that my house would be clean and I wouldn't have to treat them like little kids and tell them what to do and then be mad when they don't do it. Responsibility for self.. that is where I would like them to go. I had one kid who picked a chore off the list and then... since they didn't know how to do it they just thought about it what it might mean and then marked off on it. Mind you when we set this all up we went over each of the chores and what they were. Second child.. still wants to ask me every day..what they should do. Every person in this house is old enough to figure it out without a list... and with a list they really shouldnt need to be told. Third kid is doing a lot more than they used to.. but it is the kid who didn't need to do more. This list needs a little tweaking as I knew it would...we will have a sit down at dinner tomorrow and we can all talk about it and see what we will change.
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Most teenages never need to be told what they should do...but for some you have to tell. They expect you to tell them and that also give them something to gripe about to their friends. If kids can't have something alittle negative to say about their parents...well then it just takes all the fun out of being a teenager. And remember all this will come back to them when they are parents....Of course by then they will not remember every doing anythink like that..:)
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