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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 692174" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Jabber and I have been talking about these two. Part of our problem is...they're just terrible house guests, both of them. </p><p></p><p>If our son mows the lawn, he expects to get paid. Otherwise, he doesn't offer. Jabber comes home from work and our son, if he's here, is sitting on his butt, watching TV or on the computer. Jabber takes care of the immediate chores, pooper scooping, feeding cat and dogs, getting dinner ready, etc. Our son doesn't think of any of that...never even once. They eat TONS, tonight J ate darn near twice what Jabber and I did, and they don't tell us if they've eaten the last of something, even though we have a chalk board right there on the wall of the kitchen to write groceries on. They usually do their own dishes, but often we end up doing them again because they do a bad job. The other day we realized they were using plastic utensils so they didn't have to wash silverware and just throwing the dirty ones in the recycle container. Two problems. #1, we keep those for our lunches and to take to work. #2, you can't put food contaminated items in the recycling. The other day we found cigarette butts in the trash, which smells to high heaven - they don't smoke in the house, so why throw the butts in there? It's a thousand little things that make us crazy. </p><p></p><p>If he was a good house guest, if he kept his room clean, did some chores without expecting payment, but just to help out, then we might feel differently. But it's kind of too late to tell them that; and shouldn't they have just known that? I mean, maybe J has never been taught how to be a good house guest, but I know our son has. </p><p></p><p>It just would be so much easier to say yes to helping them if they acted like they appreciated it. I believe they do, but they don't act like it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 692174, member: 17309"] Jabber and I have been talking about these two. Part of our problem is...they're just terrible house guests, both of them. If our son mows the lawn, he expects to get paid. Otherwise, he doesn't offer. Jabber comes home from work and our son, if he's here, is sitting on his butt, watching TV or on the computer. Jabber takes care of the immediate chores, pooper scooping, feeding cat and dogs, getting dinner ready, etc. Our son doesn't think of any of that...never even once. They eat TONS, tonight J ate darn near twice what Jabber and I did, and they don't tell us if they've eaten the last of something, even though we have a chalk board right there on the wall of the kitchen to write groceries on. They usually do their own dishes, but often we end up doing them again because they do a bad job. The other day we realized they were using plastic utensils so they didn't have to wash silverware and just throwing the dirty ones in the recycle container. Two problems. #1, we keep those for our lunches and to take to work. #2, you can't put food contaminated items in the recycling. The other day we found cigarette butts in the trash, which smells to high heaven - they don't smoke in the house, so why throw the butts in there? It's a thousand little things that make us crazy. If he was a good house guest, if he kept his room clean, did some chores without expecting payment, but just to help out, then we might feel differently. But it's kind of too late to tell them that; and shouldn't they have just known that? I mean, maybe J has never been taught how to be a good house guest, but I know our son has. It just would be so much easier to say yes to helping them if they acted like they appreciated it. I believe they do, but they don't act like it. [/QUOTE]
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