I miss my wife.

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Rico

Margie, y'all are about to open a can of worms I don't think y'all are ready to deal with. The bulk of running this home falls on me, not my wife. I'm not cleaning this house. If she doesn't learn the meaning of delegating the work to the children, then she's going to be the one who cleans it, not me, whether she's working or not. There's a lot that goes on around here most people don't know about, and I won't be going into details about it all for the whole world to read about. LOL! Y'all are free to think what you want about me, but I am not adding the cleaning of this house to the load I already bear.

Rico, I'm not thinking bad of you, brother. In fact, I really don't even care if you clean your house or not. LOL. I was just wanting to make my point. Ok, and to stir up the pot just a little bit.

I agree that kids need to be taught to do their part to help around the house. I have the same problem with Walt in that area. He would rather do something himself than to take the time to work with the boys to teach them how to do it. I've taught them housekeeping stuff, but they need to know things like how to clean the gutters, how to maintain the lawnmower, how to trim trees, etc. I keep saying that if we fail to teach them those things and they go into adulthood without those skills, then we've failed them. But he just goes on and does them himself anyway. Oh well. What can I say?