Entitled parents demand 16-year-old kid cooks dinner for the family almost every night, he poses an ultimatum in response: ‘No cooking until my siblings take on more chores'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 17, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Every household has its own way of dividing the housework among family members. Some parents view housework as an important lesson for their kids, so they make sure their kids are just as involved in house chores as they are, making it easier for the kids when they go off and live independently. Other parents don't mind if their kids do not take part in chores and allow them to learn their ways when they are older and live on their own, which they argue is also a way of preparing them for the real world.

Either way, the one thing that should always be enforced in every household, is an equal division of work between the kids. Either they all pitch in, or none of them are, parents cannot simply drop all their work on one kid and leave it be. 

That is what happened in this Reddit story, written by a kid tired of being the only one expected to do household work at home. Eventually, the kid decided to pose an ultimatum to his parents, which caused a big family dispute.

Keep scrolling to read the full story. After you are done, click here for another family drama story of a mother who demanded her jobless stepdaughter a lot more than her own son.

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    "They are happy to sit back and let me do all the work"
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    AITA for refusing to cook for my family three nights a week unless my parents take kid bathroom duty off my chore list?
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    My parents don't really like cooking or any kind of meal prep. They cook and stuff but they've always hated it so much. While I (16m) like cooking, love it even, and baking. I started to enjoy it 3
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    grandparents years ago when my started taking me and my younger siblings (14f, 13f, 10m, 8m) after in person learning came back post-C d. My grandparents love to cook so it.
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    was fun and cool to learn from them and I picked up some recipes from them. When my parents heard this they added cooking 1 night a week once you're 13 to the list. I liked it because I enjoy my cooking more
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    than my parents. Probably because I don't hate every second of cooking so I pay more attention. My family preferred it too. Especially my siblings.
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    My sisters do not like cooking and our parents stopped the rule when both of them turned out to food. They didn't make want to come home from work to eat bad food. They knew my sisters hated cooking too so they
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    knew they wouldn't want to do better and my parents didn't. blame them since they hate it. So my parents told me they wanted me to take over cooking 3 nights a week. I told them I wanted
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    them to drop my chore of kid bathroom chore for the extra nights cooking chore. The bathroom I share with my siblings is gross and disgusting. My parents let so much awful
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    stuff fly with them in there because nobody else uses it but I'm supposed to make sure it's clean and ugh. I'm talking my sisters not disposing of their pads well and sometimes leaving them, marks being left on
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    the toilet seat, . left in the toilet, all kinds of stuff in the shower. And one of my brothers p s all over the place at night when he's half asleep so extra gross. My parents never try to
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    anything about it but I hate cleaning that bathroom. I never want to use it. Sometimes I ask my best friends family if I can use theirs (they live right next door) because it's better.
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    My parents refused to drop that because they know my siblings won't clean it good and they don't want to do it either. So I said no to cooking three nights. My parents said I don't make the
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    rules as the kid and I told them I refuse to take on more when I have the worst job in the house. AITA?
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    imamage_fightme 2d ago • NTA and anyone giving any ruling otherwise is out of their mind. Yes, parents make rules. But these parents are not being parents. Who the calls themselves a parent while allowing their children to live in literal filth in their bathroom. I understand
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    having the kids clean it - but the parents still need to oversee that it is being done properly and enforcing the cleaning done correctly if it is not. The fact that they just allow the bathroom to stay filthy is disgusting. You don't get to pick and choose as a parent, you take on the whole job when you
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    become a parent. It seems like they are happy to sit back and let you do the stuff they don't want to do, like extra cooking and cleaning up after their dirty kids. Nope. That's on them.
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    External-Hamster-991 • 2d ago • NTA. Your parents are unfortunately lazy people who don't seem to want to be bothered with actual parenting. They depend on you and demand the fruits of your labor, but they won't protect you in any way and force you to pick up the slack for siblings with
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    no respect for themselves or their own environment. If they are not aware of it, I think you should let your grandparents know how things are at home, and the situation you are in over there. Just in case your parents get too crazy in trying to force you to be their chef, as well as their janitor. (Malicious
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    compliance would allow for doing both the bathroom and the cooking at the same time and maybe not washing your hands too well as you go back and forth. But that would be gross). They can ground you or take away your stuff, but your parents simply can't
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    force you to make them good food. You can cook them terrible, tasteless food if you want to. You can make sandwiches for two nights a week. Or hot dogs and bland white rice. Boiled chicken and canned carrots over dry spaghetti. Ingredients that are perfectly fine on their own, paired weirdly and made
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    with no seasoning or sauce, no love. If you do use seasoning, make it taste terrible. You just have to eat elsewhere during the day to make up for not eating well at home. Only make good food that YOU LIKE. You only have two years until you can leave. Get an after school job and start
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    saving so you can move out the second you're ready. They can be stuck in a disgusting home with no good food when you're gone. But definitely do the absolute bare minimum you need to do to get by until then. They don't deserve your yummy food.
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    • SigSauerPower320 2d ago • NAVY Craptain [152] NTA Your parents are out of their minds. A 13 year old cooking meals for the entire family?... Nope!! When you're a kid, cleaning your room, helping keep the house clean, doing your own
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    laundry, mowing the lawn, shoveling snow... Those are the things teens should be doing around the house. Cooking meals for the entire family is a parent job.
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    MerlinBiggs •2d ago. Supreme Court Just-☛ [135] NTA. Stand your ground. Or, you only cook for the siblings that clean up after themselves.
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