If you have a 14-yr-old boy, do you ...

[roisin]

a) Run their bath?
b) Prepare their breakfast?
c) Wake them in the morning?
d) Pack for them for holiday?

Do they ever or regularly ..
e) Make you a cup of coffee/tea
f) Cook a family meal?

DS age 13.11 :

Yes (part of the process of getting DD to have a bath)
Yes - it is only toast
No
No

No - DS does not drink tea or coffee, and we do not want to encourage him in any way
No

Ds aged 12

Has shower, but if wants bath I run it as he gets nose in book/engrossed in something else and forgets. I don't want ceilings down!

I get his breakfast during the week, as we have 40 minutes to get sorted for school, but he sorts himself at weekends.

I wake him, as he'd never get up otherwise...sometimes have to use the cold wet flannel technique.

I do the packing, so I know he has what he needs, as opposed to what HE thinks he needs.

Will make tea when asked, and is beginning to show interest in cooking, but gets bored when it all doesn't happen instantly!

He does chores for pocket money, such as ensuring loos fully stocked with loo-roll at all times; clearing the table after meals, and we will soon be adding stacking the dishwasher to this. Have just started training him in how to use washing machine.

no
no
no
no

Yes
yes and hoovers empty dishwasher and make his own packed lunch.