It's a never ending battle at my house to get Thunderfoot to do anything! She has to be reminded EVERY week. Her chore/rule list is not that complicated. It's the usual everyday stuff that everyone has to do. Keep a clean room. Clean hamster cage. Clean up behind yourself. Help with HER dog. Vacuum HER dog's hair up. She doesn't do any of this. Thursday I was running late for work. As I was coming down the stairs I noticed a shit ton of the dog's hair all over the steps. She is supposed to clean this up but did she? No. I swept it up because I was tired of looking at it and took a picture of it for DH to see. Then when I get downstairs...there is HER (I emphasize her because that's what she calls him when it is beneficial to her) dog, dying to go outside and pee. She had JUST been downstairs so I know she saw him at the door. I can't just leave him and trust that she will take him out. He would explode before DH got home. So I took him outside. I am fuming at this point. DH got a lengthy text from me about her never doing anything that she is supposed to and that I was extremely fed up with it! He said he would talk to her when he got home. I told him I didn't see what good that would do because he has to have the VERY SAME talk with her every week. Nothing changes. I got home later that night around 9 and he told me that he had talked to her. She told him that she was getting ready to take the dog outside, she had just gone upstairs to get her flip flops. That was a lie because I had time to sweep the stairs while she was "getting her flip flops". How long does it take to grab a pair of shoes out of your room? Not to mention the damn things were on the floor DOWNSTAIRS! I told him he needed to stop falling for her shit all the time. She lies constantly but he never sees it. Then he told me that she would probably approach me because she wanted to talk to me about not liking her. I told him she better catch me on my day off. Not on a day where I was running late and even later because she refuses to take any responsibility around the house. He said, "Well she thinks that you don't like her and she really just wants your acceptance." I told him when she started to do what the fuck she is supposed to do around the house WITHOUT having to be told EVERY DAY that I might start accepting her a little more. I don't have to like her...I just have to try and get along with her. I don't really know what else to do with her. We have taken everything from her as punishment and she just does not care. She has no phone, no computer, no Xbox, no boyfriend visits. She doesn't care. That's just not normal for a 16 year old. I would have DIED if my mom had taken everything from me and I damn sure would have started doing my chores like I was asked to do.