Do you teach your teenage sons how to run a house?

[wheresmymojo]

Inspired by other threads where men seem to need instructions on 'what needs to be done'.

I also have one of these - happy to do his half and gets on with obvious things like laundry, dishwasher, hoovering.

However he would never think to do things like clean the inside of windows, dust skirting boards (actually probably dust at all), etc.

When I was growing up I was expected to help my DM around the house and she would make sure I'd not overlooked things like this. My stepbrother on the other hand was just asked to do 'outside' jobs like washing the car or bikes.

Do those of you with teenagers give proper housework chores? Not just 'take the bins out' but actually dusting and such like?

Do you give the same chores to the boys and girls or different?

There's a difference between Uni students knowing how to do stuff and them actually doing it.

I think if you read some of the higher education threads you will see that there are some DC who are very inept at doing basic stuff.

When DD chooses a house share she will know who not to share with

I keep out of the Higher Education threads, especially if they are full of moaning about students not cleaning.

DS has shared with the same people since he started in Halls and now the second year of a house share. They all struck lucky by the sound of it.

My son shared halls with a girl who put sausages in the toaster! She had no idea how to cook them...

DD's ex BF shared a flat with students who didn't realise that you have to remove pizza from its packaging before heating in the oven.

Sorry, but I do blame the parents for not encouraging their DC to learn the basics of being self sufficient.

My teens do their own laundry, clean their bathrooms and the bedrooms, and clean up after the dinner. Ds is better at cleaning his bathroom than the kitchen but he does both. And he can cook too, but he's more interested in eating.