Speaking for parents everywhere

Speaking for parents of teenagers everywhere :

1) Scissors, tape dispensers, water bottles, drinking glasses- they all have homes. We know you are smart enough to know this because you were able to figure out how to find them in the first place.  Perhaps you could put them back to their resting places when you’re finished so that the rest of us would know where to find them when we need to and wouldn’t have to go looking in places like; hypothetically, a teenagers room.

2) We see you throwing away your large Dunkin’s Iced Mocha Coffee with 3 sugars into the garbage. Thanks for picking it up after it fell and squishing it back into the garbage can (because it clearly is overflowing).  That was really good of you.

Maybe next time you could spend 45 extra seconds to take out said garbage bag and replace it with a new one (which is literally in the drawer above). We know you know how to do this because you watched your Mother do it 5 minutes later .

And 15,000 times prior.

3) We love that you are taking some independence and starting to do some

laundry. But yes, that does require it actually needing to move from the washer TO the dryer and then again UP to the bedroom. 

And yea, maybe even into the drawers. 

Just for kicks.

 

4) Please, we beg of you, go one day without asking us what’s for dinner.

5) Just rinse the toothpaste out of the sink! 

We know this adulting thing is hard work. You know how we know?

Because we are still trying to figure it out. 

Except replacing the toilet paper roll thing.

That one we mastered.