Dad just turned 14 which I’ve a feeling is going to be a challenge. At the moment he thinks he’s in charge of everything he does and when told by us he says why? We say he needs to follow OUR rules not the other way around.. why? It’s driving me insane. Trying to get him to even do any chores around the house is a nightmare and if I’m honest his dad does little around the house and so I blame him.. anyway that’s another story.
At the moment is insisting he’s giving up piano lessons which was what he wanted in the first place. He’s given up any club or activity I’ve ever got him into. Hen just wants to see his friends and there that. I’m happy he has a load of friends to meet up with but I need him to realise he doesn’t just go out as and when he decides to. He works for it.. ie homework which he says night after night he doesn’t have then I find out through his texts that he had tests! Also helping in the house or cleaning his manky room. I clean it but I tell him to pick everything up, take rubbish and dishes out the room which I always say aren’t going in there... does he listen? Nope. Dad doesn’t so why should he?
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Rocsand03 · 05/01/2020 22:03
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