School projects do not get assigned the night before they are due. Making their failure to plan your emergency It still happens, but we have the right to just shoot back “that’s a bummer.”ĥ. We also have a rule that Mom and Dad are not to get pleading texts from school asking for forgotten items. Kids also get to see, that you can make it through the day without a mistake consuming you. ![]() Parents don’t miss opportunities to provide natural consequences for your teens. Off we go, as the vision surfaced of both of them playing around on their phones before it was time to leave. I braked in hesitation as I contemplated turning around. “We have to go back, Mom!” Another exclaimed that he forgot his freshly washed PE uniform folded in the laundry room. Monday morning we pulled out of the driveway and screeched around the corner of the house when daughter dear realized she forgot her phone. When they start applying for college, they’ll need to be more organized because of the workload they’ll be receiving. They will need to fill out job and college applications soon and they need to know how to do that without your intervention. This makes life much easier for everyone. I sign them and put them back on their desks. They put the papers to be signed on a clipboard and leave it for me on the kitchen island. Our teens are expected to fill out all of their own paperwork, to the best of their ability. I used to dread this stack until the kids became of age to fill all of it out themselves. I have a lot of kids, which equates to a lot of beginning of the school year paperwork. Free yourself away from the PB and J station now. It will only be a few short years and I will have no idea what they are eating for any of their meals away at college. I know what food I have in my pantry and it’s on them to pack up what they feel is a good lunch. One friend asked, yeah but how do you know what they’re bringing for school lunch? I don’t. My job is to make sure there is food in the house so that they can eat breakfast and pack a lunch. My morning alarm is the sound of the kids clanging cereal bowls. Making their breakfast and packing their lunch I find my sons just as adorable as you do, but our goal is to raise well-functioning adults here. I heard a Mom actually voice out loud that her teen sons were just so cute still, that she loved going in and waking them up every morning. ![]() ![]() The snooze button no longer feels luxurious when it’s caused you to miss breakfast. There are days one will come racing out with only a few minutes to spare before they have to be out the door. My foursome has been expected to get themselves up on early school mornings since they started middle school. If you are still waking little Johnny up in the mornings, it’s time to let an alarm clock do its job. Walk away from doing these 8 things for your teen this school year 1. How do we raise competent adults if we’re always doing everything for our kids? School projects and homework are not any part of my existence. I don’t feel obligated to deliver forgotten items left behind at home. I stopped making daily breakfasts and packing school lunches long ago. What some may view as a lack of parenting, is what I deem parenting on purpose, as we work to build necessary life skills in our kids. Don’t judge me if you happen to see my kids eating packaged Ritz crackers for school lunch.ĭon’t judge me if they’re on the sidelines of PE because they forgot their uniform.ĭon’t judge me if they didn’t turn in their homework because it’s still sitting home on their desk.
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