{"id":88,"date":"2025-09-03T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:10:04","slug":"working-with-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/working-with-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with teen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I do rarer household chores, like changing lightbulbs, cleaning dishwasher filters, assembling furniture, etc., I often ask my teenage son to help me. I always say, “You should learn to do these things so you know how to do them when you move out to your own place.” I always get sentimental, thinking that my baby will soon be so big he\u2019ll move out. I feel anxious, almost tears in my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looks at me with a weird, amused expression. I\u2019ve always thought it means that he finds it funny because I get so emotional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I got a horrible idea. What if it really means that he thinks, \u201cYeah, so you think now that I\u2019ll move out some day\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I do rarer household chores, like changing lightbulbs, cleaning dishwasher filters, assembling furniture, etc., I often ask my teenage son to help me. I always say, “You should learn to do these things so you know how to do them when you move out to your own place.” I always get sentimental, thinking that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}