Parenting is not a topic I usually write about, but there’s a first time for everything. My daughter who is turning 15 in October thinks she can go through life without doing any chores. Wrong. With all the mood swings myself and @bingbabe have to endure on a constant basis, I thought I would take a stance and impose some, shock horror.. chores! ![MoodyTeen.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeahdq17URiqXrgve7efLrrvz1WCGAwWpxU4ybzZZ7wda/MoodyTeen.jpg)

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I don’t want to reveal her real name on a public site, so for the sake of this article, she will be named ‘Holly’. Holly is due to go to Paris on a school trip at the end of June 2018. That’s five weeks from now. She is asking £250 as pocket money, not a small amount but representative of what her friends are taking (or so she tells us). This is for a five day trip, so £50 a day. I calculated at £10 a chore with 5 chores a week, over 5 weeks that would add up to £250, and placed this chart on the back of the kitchen door. Is this what it takes for ‘bone idle’ Holly to do something, be it a small thing and not even every day? ![Chores.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTdg429R4pw2NYwZsLBVfo62BGNYk8ejxJ59mQTc2M9b7/Chores.jpg) Needless to say she was not very happy to see this and even less so when I declared, ‘If you miss a chore, I’ll be £10 richer so please go ahead and keep being lazy’. Of course, she is my daughter and I won’t see her going short for the trip but something has to be done. I now need to figure out something to keep it going when she returns and I intend to do just that. I did say to her, ‘You will thank me for doing this when you are 21 years old’; a statement that was vigorously rebuked. We were all young once, and we all have to start doing some work. I don’t think I’m being mean, this is simply a preparation for what is to come. All photographs were taken by myself unless otherwise indicated. ![DivindingLine.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbUFN9Kg8tDAxciWwE8tyuDgs5EgNrUTAkekBnPipuug9/DivindingLine.JPG) [![SteemEnginer.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbL3cUmuD8wEbAhqqPtZcxA1QX1PmgQjY6nsMb5XZBepw/SteemEnginer.gif)](https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@thesteemengine/introducing-the-steem-engine-initiative) [

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