It’s a sign that the basic habits of responsibility haven’t been built.
Your child isn’t lazy. They’ve simply learned someone else will always step in and do it for them.
Children need to be raised to be useful. Too often, teens today don’t keep up with chores or their own space because they were excused, overprotected, or overlooked. Now, they’ve grown to expect things done for them, without learning how to step up themselves.
You’re not teaching them to keep a tidy room.
You’re preparing them for life.
A Real Example
One mother admitted that her 17-year-old son never made his bed. She always excused him: “Poor thing, he goes to school all day and comes home tired.”
One weekend, he stayed home alone. The result? His bed became a nest for three days straight. He barely ate, didn’t shower, and left everything in disarray.
When she came back, he only said: “I didn’t know what to do first.”
It wasn’t that he couldn’t.
