Childcare for teens

[Stickmansmum]

What does everyone do, if at least one parent WFH but both parents working full time, with regards teens after school. Assuming they can get home and are able to mind themselves mostly, do they really do their homework and do it properly? Does it work to let them get on with things themselves? I’ll have 4 teens and can’t imagine them not fighting and bickering and some hiding away to avoid doing their work.

Most teens go home to an empty house in my experience. Mine rarely did due to my hours and that they were fortunate to live in a house where both parents didn't have to work full time but most their friends did, some collected younger siblings too

Never a problem here for ds1 (now gone to Uni) and ds2, but I think with 4 x teens it's a different kettle of fish.

I have three teens, there's never been a problem, they all do their homework without me asking and get on well.

Whether or not they ever tidy their rooms or help voluntarily around the house is another question!

Sorry only getting back to this now. Mine are still little, eldest is off to next school in a year. And the other 3 will follow fairly quickly after.

They are all very independent and we expect a lot of them in general, I just couldn’t envision how the family would work with them at that age. We do have a strong emphasis on education in our house and they need a lot of monitoring at this age to get things done. But I guess that disappears when they start secondary from what you all describe.