K's had an early curfew all summer. She has to be in the house at 5:30 and she is to remain there for the rest of the night. Before you start to tell me how awful a mother I am for doing this to my kid during summer let me lay it all out for you...
All the girls are required to do before they leave the house in the morning during the summertime is 1.) Make their bed and pick up their room (dirty clothes, garbage, etc.) 2.) If it's their day to do dishes they are to either unload the clean dishes and reload with dirty breakfast, or if the dishwasher didn't get run the night before they're to load any dirty dishes in to it and start it (unload and put away later.) K has an additional item and that is to put her dirty sheets and pajamas in the washing machine and start it. (She still wets the bed occasionally and she has a nasty dirty habit of letting the sheets and pj's sit in her room all day in the heat so they ferment and smell up the entire house, and I do mean the ENTIRE house.)
That's it! That's all they have to do!! It's not that fucking hard!!! Yet K consistently doesn't do it. I don't know what her deal is. We tried to ground her. She left during the day anyway while we were at work. We tried taking her cell phone away but because she's not glued to it like L is so that didn't really phase her. We tried not letting her do something during the weekend that she really wanted to do, like a sleepover. That didn't work because she never has sleepovers. The only thing that I've been able to do is to force her curfew to be 5:30 pm regardless of the day. Sunday through Saturday she is to be in the house at 5:30 and her day is done. This is after her REPEATEDLY not doing the two to three things in the morning she has to do on a daily basis.
Occasionally M will think she needs a break from being inside (maybe he needs a break from K's constant banter. That child will talk without stopping whether or not anyone is listening to her or answering her. It can get rather annoying really) and if she's done her stuff for the last several days M will tell her after dinner that she can go outside until 8:30. Yesterday was one of those days. M told her to she could go outside and I think she was out the door before he finished the sentence. Then he went upstairs. Guess who didn't make her bed or pick up her room before she left for the day? Yep. K. I told him he should have looked upstairs before letting her go...
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