The Never-Ending Chore Wars

You know that feeling when you realize your teenagers have become fully fledged adults in the span of two seconds flat? Yeah, that. The funny thing is, they act like kids again as soon as chores come into the picture. I swear it's some kind of cosmic joke on me for having raised them this far. They can talk circles around me about politics and climate change but when it comes to who gets the laundry done next week, suddenly they're five years old. And don't even get me started on how they manage to somehow convince themselves that dishes clean themselves if left in a pile long enough. It's like their brains have an 'off' switch for responsibility when chores are involved. But hey, I'm not complaining too much, I mean, there's something oddly satisfying about catching them in the act of avoiding their duties and calling them out on it. Maybe they're onto something with that cosmic joke theory.