• CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You have two options.

    1. Resist. Plan stuff really far out and hope they forget about it, after “consulting your own schedule” on your phone.

    2. Lean into it and respect them as capable of their own time management. Schedule things they don’t want with them, like doctors appointments, as well as the things they do want, like fast food rewards, and stick to the schedule. This gives them some adult skills like choosing when they want to do something to make it less scary, gives them some limited autonomy in their own lives, while still allowing you to mitigate the worst of it by still being the adult in the household with the master schedule. Really a win win, there. Especially if they drop it because being an adult who plans stuff is boring and lame and not nearly as much fun as they thought it would be.