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#4865 - 11/09/05 04:04 AM
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Registered: 08/25/05
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My son was a horrible slob and after he was in high school, i just kept his BR door shut. Since he's been married, he's shaped up a lot - or maybe his wife picks up after him. He does help her with laundry and cooking.
After he moved in with his wife, I stopped in and caught him cutting out coupons from the paper - it was all I could do to keep from cracking up! I seemed like 2 weeks before, he couldn't manage to pick up his own socks.
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#4866 - 11/09/05 07:31 AM
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Registered: 10/22/05
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jj, you are right, although i quit doing a lot of things for them in high school. i got sick of walking on the clothes i had just washed and folded so they had to start doing their own laundry. i quit cleaning their rooms, too. it's not that i never tried to teach them how to clean up after themselves, they just didn't listen and they always worked outside with their dad so much (dairy farm) that i would end up feeling sorry for them and do things they should have been doing.
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#4867 - 11/09/05 07:32 AM
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Registered: 10/22/05
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Loc: ND
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oh, yeah - they both turned out to be wonderful, caring young men so the slob part i can live with!
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#4868 - 11/10/05 08:22 AM
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Registered: 08/02/05
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Loc: FL
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I grew up during "Women's Lib" so my son and daughter were raised as equally as I could, but I noticed that once my son got married, he let his wife start taking over all the chores. It infuriated me! Well, once their kids were born, and now that his wife is ill, I notice that my son has slipped back into taking care of things as if he had never taken that little break, courtesy of his wife. I think it lends creedence to the theory that they fall into "let somebody else clean up after me" simply because they can. Which means, ladies, that those of us who continue to facilitate these behaviors are our own worst enemy. ![[Roll Eyes]](images/icons/rolleyes.gif)
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#4873 - 11/10/05 04:29 AM
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Registered: 09/20/05
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Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
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That's the "who are you and what have you done with my son??" line I give to mine when they do something out of character - in other words...human!
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#4874 - 11/10/05 08:26 AM
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Registered: 11/04/05
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Loc: Plains, Ga.
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I raised 2 sons. I MADE them make their beds, pick up their dirty clothes if they wanted them washed, put down the toilet seat, learn to cook and do their own laundry (when they were old enough. They started washing dishes when they were 7 years old. I never backed down from my "rules". Now that they're on their own, they don't do anything!
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