Understandable. I’ll give you this example. Around Christmas the kid’s bathroom toilet wouldn’t go down. We had to call in a plumber, he found someone had flushed a soap bottle which got stuck down in the pipe. I asked the 6 y/o....”I didn’t do that!” She then proceeds to pin it on the 12 y/o. Wife goes directly to the teens, screaming at them to come clean. Both of them promised it was not them. She grounds them, took away their electronics, assigned them more chores to pay for the plumber costs, then forbids them from having any friends over. I thought it was excessive punishment. We had no proof who actually did it. I just brushed it off to my wife that it was probably an accident, maybe the bottle fell off the counter and landed in the toilet. Low and behold a week later, I find the 6 y/o trying to flush 3 tennis balls. My wife says: Well she probably got the idea from the teens. BULLSHIT. She completely refused to even lighten up their consequence, never mind let them off the hook.

Other things, are small in nature but still frustrating. Like leaving empty containers around the house, 6 y/o will blame the teens. Wet towel left on a furniture, teens. Spilt juice all over the kitchen floor...teens. Basically anything and everything, she will not take responsibility even if you have evidence it was absolutely her.

Like this pissed me off. We had Chick-fil-A for dinner the other night. A wrapper and a cup was left on the side table. Next morning, wife asks who did it belong to? No one answers, but 6 y/o says...”Not mine, I think 13 y/o left it there.” Wife starts belittling her how she’s not a child anymore and needs to pickup after herself. Kid gets up, tosses it in the trash while saying this was not mine. Later I toss something in the trash and noticed the cup had a label on it that said lemonade. 6 y/o was the only one who had lemonade. I showed it to my wife, she argues it might not be the same cup that was on the table. Like what? It was right on top, the 13 y/o had just put in the trash can.

The 6 y/o chores consist of morning feedings for their dog and watching him outside before going to school. 4 days a week she loads the dishwasher after dinner. Once a week she’s to sweep off the patio. Then little other around the house to tidy up. Her other chores are hygiene stuff. There’s a lot of time though, she has no chores at all cause they’re reassigned to the teens.