Should a busy teenager still have at least 1 chore?

Teen claims she is too busy to do the dishes 2 nights a week. That's the only chore asked of her. She says between school, sports, and her first job she hasnt started yet she doesnt have time. But she still finds time to go out with her friends?

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4meAndyou · F

Explain to your daughter that this is not a choice, it is a task. Explain every member of your family must contribute in some way to the cleaning and maintenance of the home where you all live, and that if you all decided to blow off your chores, saying you are too busy, you would soon live in a very smelly hole of a house, with bugs and disease.

Tell her that when she moves out, she will have to clean any home where she happens to live, again, because of smells, bugs, mice, and disease. This is not something she gets to decide not to do. It is part of survival, for everyone.

Tell her that after the dishes are washed, she can do whatever she wants, but that if she is too busy to contribute to something so necessary, you will have to intervene and cut out some of her activities.

morrgin · F

@4meAndyou Good way to put it and I agree with cutting out activities.