To do nothing for a week?

[Whataloser]

My 16 year old keeps saying to my parents that I do absolutely nothing for her. They (my parents) take this as a 16 year old rant, and find it funny I on the other hand am getting sick of my 16 year old saying it.

So would I be unreasonable now that exams are over and the holidays have started to do nothing for my 16 year old for a week. If it causes them to do things for themselves result then they can carry on moaning to my parents and at least then I'll know the rant is a valid rant, or it will make them realise what I do for them and hopefully stop the ranting.

AIBU?

Do it. It'll be a funny experiment. Just make sure you don't then have a weeks worth of washing/cleaning etc to do at the end of it

Hard to say without any background, what do you do for them exactly?

I would do it, or at least give her a list of jobs that need doing each day. If she is going to be home it will do her no harm to have to chip in and realise how much you do for her.

tupuedes - everything, all washing, cooking etc, taxi service to activities 4 times a week, do all shopping i.e. clothes, toilitries etc, entertain her take her to the cinema, dinner etc.

She tells my parents I do nothing.

Do it! Just for the entertainment value!

Yeap, let her see how much work there is actually involved in running a house even just for yourself.

And when she folds, don't go back to doing everything for her. At 16 she should be doing her own laundry, cooking at few time a week and seriously why are you buying her clothes?

Whats going to happen when she moves out to Uni or whereever?

Do it!

Do it & blog it for us

Do it! My 16 yr old has to do her own washing and feed herself apart from family evening meals. She gets £10 a week pocket money off me but has to buy all her own clothes, college stuff, lunches, social life etc out of that. Even then I think I'm giving her an easy life! Teenagers are inherently lazy - they won't do anything unless we make them.

Do it. It will show what you actually do. The look on her face when you cook a meal with none for her or she doesn't have any clean clothes will be priceless. I doubt you will have to keep it up for a week.

£10 a week to buy all clothes and lunches! Crikey that's not much!

Ok in that case I agree with the others, do it!

Do it. And each time you don't do something, write it down and then present the list at the end of the week. You might need a big box for dirty crockery....