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Another family situation that is reaffirming
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<blockquote data-quote="dstc_99" data-source="post: 626761" data-attributes="member: 15473"><p>I am going to take this post and apply it to my life.</p><p> </p><p>I have a friend who I love to death but she has three girls that just trash her house and are very sarcastic with her and other adults. They are all under 12. I have tried to mention that the mouthiness is CUTE now but it wont be as they hit their teens. Her oldest has already started and her husband and the oldest are now like oil and water.</p><p> </p><p>The girls trash the house and then she has to fix it but she is not a cleaner so it litterally gets to a point where you can't see the countertops before her husband steps in and does it. The other night the kids were at my house and the youngest wanted to help me "clean." LOl she is 6 so we all know how much help that is. Anyway she helped me load the dishwasher and I mentioned that she and her sister could help her mom by doing this at home. She was cool with it her dad was not! He said they would do it wrong and he would have to redo it. I said well teach them how you want it done and then let them go at it. He's got three one can unload and put away, one can rinse, and one can load. It would help his wife out sooooo much. NOPE he is so Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) he can't give up that control.</p><p> </p><p>Seriously I look back now and see so many ways that I enabled my kids to be lazy. Now I can see it differently but I am slowly learning that unless my help is requested they will have to figure that out on their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dstc_99, post: 626761, member: 15473"] I am going to take this post and apply it to my life. I have a friend who I love to death but she has three girls that just trash her house and are very sarcastic with her and other adults. They are all under 12. I have tried to mention that the mouthiness is CUTE now but it wont be as they hit their teens. Her oldest has already started and her husband and the oldest are now like oil and water. The girls trash the house and then she has to fix it but she is not a cleaner so it litterally gets to a point where you can't see the countertops before her husband steps in and does it. The other night the kids were at my house and the youngest wanted to help me "clean." LOl she is 6 so we all know how much help that is. Anyway she helped me load the dishwasher and I mentioned that she and her sister could help her mom by doing this at home. She was cool with it her dad was not! He said they would do it wrong and he would have to redo it. I said well teach them how you want it done and then let them go at it. He's got three one can unload and put away, one can rinse, and one can load. It would help his wife out sooooo much. NOPE he is so Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) he can't give up that control. Seriously I look back now and see so many ways that I enabled my kids to be lazy. Now I can see it differently but I am slowly learning that unless my help is requested they will have to figure that out on their own. [/QUOTE]
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