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Originally Posted by Sliver
Basically, I have 18 years with them to teach them everything I know. I don't get how 14-16 years in they're still a lot of work for you. Were you not teaching them how to do things all along the way?
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Yeah, that’s another reason I would never go the paid cleaning route. I consider teaching my kids discipline and self-reliance around doing their laundry, cleaning bathrooms, doing dishes, etc to be core parental duties. If they can’t do all that stuff on their own when they move out, I’ll consider myself a failure as a parent. Because they won’t be earning enough when they move out to pay someone to do it.
People liked the heck out of a post up-thread where a guy expected his girlfriend to do all the cleaning and cooking. How much of that is on the guy, and how much on his parents for not expecting him to do that work while he was growing up?
If kids carry their weight, by the time they’re 12 or so the amount of housework any individual in a household has to do is not onerous.