So my teenagers have chores that switch up daily and they are fairly simple; clean your room, the kitchen, bathroom, living room and walk your dog. Simple right? So why is it so difficult for them to do? When i was younger, much younger, i had to do so much more than they have to. My mother worked a lot and left most of the chores and care for my little brother to me. I hated chores with a passion but someone had to do it and there was really no one else. When my mother got married the first time we moved in with the step-family and we had to clean that apt everyday and it was harder than cleaning my own.
Before the marriage we had a two bedroom, one bath apt in the projects and because i hated doing chores and i knew if i didn't do it well i would have to do it all over again on top of getting a whooping, i cleaned everyday and did my best not to make a big mess so there wasn't much to clean. After the wedding it was a four bedroom, one bath apt with a large living room, a sitting room and the kitchen and it had, at any given time, seven to ten people living there along with a cat and/or dog or two and no one that wanted to clean. So the kids had to get up every weekend and clean that house from one end to the other. At one point we had someone there that wanted us to clean to military standards, how easy could that have been for kids who had no concept of the military outside.
In both homes, if we didn't clean properly the first time we had to clean all over again and if any one of us had the sole assignment of cleaning the kitchen and it wasn't done properly we have to wash every dish in the house.
Anyway back to my teenagers, so they have these simple chores and they just refuse to do them correctly, especially the youngest. So what are they doing right now? Washing every dish in the house and cleaning the kitchen from top to bottom while i sit here watching them. One is being sarcastic and the other is depressed, kinda sad and funny all at the same time. Oh, forgot to mention that like typical teenage siblings they don't really get along with each other very well, usually. Again, sad and funny at the same time.
Peace and blessings good people!
