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Gotta love skid teaching moments!

TrueNorth77's picture

This was pretty funny. Skids are required to rinse their dishes after we eat, but for some reason, they don't think that rule applies to dishes with leftovers they take to school for lunch. They will throw the dish in the sink with the cover still on, and then we (and by we, I mean usually me) am left to deal with it since SS only loads/unloads the dishwasher once a week as his chore. I'm sick of it, tbh.

This wknd I was loading the dishwasher and there was a plastic container from SS's lunch with the cover still on and some food stil inside from 5 days ago. Bad  I told my SO, that is so gross, I'm not opening it, so guess who gets to? He said, SS? I said, well he's at Crazy's until Monday, so it defaults to you. He said, nope, SS can do it when he comes here. So I did all the dishes, but left that lone, unopened container with food in it in the sink. At this point, it's the principal of the matter. SS's chore is to unload/load the dishwasher on Mondays. I get home and I open the dishwasher and see the container thrown in there, unopened, with food still in it!!  He knows damn well it won't get clean that way, he just tried to get away with not opening it. I yelled to the living room where my SO and SS were sitting, SS did you really throw that entire container in the dishwasher without opening it?? My SO said, what? SS, go clean that!  SS said, but there's food still left in it! SO said, yeah, YOUR food, go rinse it out!

SS is like, I'm so afraid to open this, it's going to smell so bad! I was laughing and said yep, I'm glad it's not me! SS opens it and starts gagging so hard he almost threw up. He gagged at least 10 times. I was dying! lol. My SO came in and he's laughing too, and said, this is what we call a "teaching moment", then asked SS, I bet you won't do that again, will you? I made sure SD saw it too so she knows she'll have to do the same if she doesn't rinse her stuff out. I was proud of my SO for not just doing it for SS, and maybe I'm evil but the whole thing was just really enjoyable for some reason. Sorry not sorry SS!

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thinkthrice's picture

The prescription for spoiled, coddled, depressed, COD snowflakes today.  Instead of fearing the bruising of their itsy bitsy psyche, their filo-thin skin NEEDS thickening.

If more parents didn't give in to their child's selfish and egocentric proclivities by teaching empathy and accountibility there would be a lot fewer school shootings.

Kudos to DH for having a spine.  Hopefully when the BM complains about "child abuse"  CPS will just laugh at her (NOT).

TrueNorth77's picture

I agree! Glad my SO has a spine with skids, although he definitely is more lenient about things than I am. When he does things like this it makes me so proud. Blum 3