Go to Sleep!!!

PhotoOp
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:59:07 +0000

I read the sleep studies. I was thinking the same thing - it’s natural for teenagers to shift to not getting to sleep until after midnight. Then it is hard to get up in the morning.

But I would suggest stepping back and looking at the big picture. Look at all the “stuff” our poor kids have to do in a day. Do they really need chores on top of that? I let the chores go when my daughter was a junior and senior. I did them. I wasn’t nearly as busy or exhausted or stressed. I don’t even think she realized that she didn’t have any chores, she had so much else to do. Now when she comes home from college on breaks I usually give her a few days with no chores and then start asking for help with dishes, or I ask her to clean up after herself. I don’t do her laundry though. She complained about it once, maybe twice, I told her she was welcome to use my machine and my soap and do laundry whenever she needed it.