I'm sure every parent struggles with this at some point in time with their kids, chores. My kids tell me that some kids don't do chores. Well aren't they special, I say! In this house we help each other out, and that means doing chores. Why do I have to wash the dishes that you dirtied up? Just because I'm Mom?! Nope, not a good enough excuse in my book. Git you're butt over here, and do the dang dishes!! It's not gonna kill ya, cause I've been doing it for years. Allowance?! You want allowance, well I allow you to use my cable, & Internet, I allow you to watch my tv......Hahahaha KIDS!!! Got it so dang easy! I keep telling them not to grow up, that it's a trap, but they just can't wait to be on their own. Well Keagan mostly. I do make my kids help out around the house. I think that it teaches responsibility, organization, how to reach goals, and just basic daily living skills. You gotta do you're laundry when you get older, Mom's not always going to do it. Basic housekeeping skills you gotta have them. I don't make my kids do much, and my house is always a mess. But they will do something to help out, or they will get something taken away. I did chores when I was younger, and I hated it! And my room was always a mess, so my parents say it's pay back. Grumble, grumble, grumble......I'm a neat freak now! I gotta have organization, and things clean, or it drives me mad. It just makes life easier. Frank was an only child, so his Mom was still cleaning his room at 17. BUT he still helps out around the house & knows how to do a lot of things because his Step-Mother, & Father made him do chores when he was at their house. I was actually impressed by what he could do for being an only child. haha!
Plus this week Frank is out of town for work, so the extra help does come in handy. Even though they have been slacking today. But they had a snow day, so I guess I really didn't care. I figure if I want something done my way, I shall just do it. It goes like that a lot of the time, because most of the time stuff is done half....assed. Yeah, not the word I wanted to use, but it is what it is. Half assed. I'm sure I'll miss all the laundry, and dishes as some older Mom's tell me. But for today, I just want my house cleaned!!
Dishes, Nooooooooooo!!!!!!
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