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Originally Posted by Joe Ricard
Parenting problem? You raised a 14 yr old this is what they do. My 14 yr old son will do the same thing unless I spell out everything item by item. No way can he do 2 related tasks. "do the Laundry" is way too general.
Waiting till he comes out of the kitchen with a snack and sits down, then tell him to go turn off the kitchen light is just fun for me. He hates it. So turn off the light when you leave........ He can't argue with logic.
We also race go karts he helps wrench. we practice Aikido 3 days a week, He looked up how to reprogram the garage door opener on the web He helped me fix it last night so he is smart. all take 2nd place to "video games". He's 14 on his way to 16 which is even more fun.
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Drives me nuts when they don't turn off the kitchen or hallway lights! As for my 15 year old step son and his phone, The first month he had it he sent 7500 txt's no real big deal because he has unlimited texting. The data on the other had he has a limit on, no big deal he goes over he has to pay for it. It only took 2 months of him having to shell out a couple hundred bucks to stop it. We remolded the basement into a bedroom for him. Has a big TV Xbox fridge all the fixings! But we made a rule.....his laptop stays in the family room. So if he wants to play games on it fine, but you will be up here with us. Pretty soon the txt's started to slow down as did the games on the computer. We made sure to watch stuff on tv that everyone would like (lots of Royals baseball games) My wife and I talk to each other a lot and we make sure to engage Zach into the conversation. This way he can't bury his head in the laptop. I kind of think its like every thing else in life. You have to communicate with him everyday, it will take a while for it to work but you just have to keep trying. Its been a little over a year now since we started on this with Zach. Now he likes hanging out with us and is only on his laptop or phone a little bit. Most of the time he is talking to us or just hanging out with us.