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So, I am 16. I feel like I do 3x the work most teenagers do. For example, my schedule:
6-7:15 : get up and take care of my sister and get dressed
7:30-1:00 : Work (I have a job. I don’t have a choice)
1:00-1:30 get home and eat
1:45-6:00pm School (online school)
6:15- 8:00
Take care of sister, clean house, feed animals, and eat.
8:00-10:00 More school.
That is my daily schedule. Now it don’t seem like a lot, but I am constantly going and doing that 5-6 days a week gets pretty tiring, but I don’t really have a choice. When it says cleaning house, that is 5 rooms and cleaning after supper (clean off table, sweep, dishes etc)
Not to mention I have 9 animals to feed after supper. But I would get yelled at if I didn’t do my chores soooo. I go to my in-person classes once a week(right after work) and to all my clubs that my mother want me to be in. Honestly I feel like it’s a lot. I could talk to my parents and tell them how I feel, but since I have 8 other siblings, they are constantly working too. My other siblings don’t help around the house. I guess it helps that I don’t have any friends since I’m to busy to actually hang out with anyone. Idk what do y’all think???
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I think you are right.
ReplyI wonder what your parents do.
ReplyWhen I was 16, I would get up at 6:30 and get ready for school and do some chores. 8 to 3:20 was for school, and then I'd have work from 4 to 10, until work changed the closing time from 10 to 9. On days I didn't have work, I'd sometimes have other out of school activities, and my weekends were usually entirely free with the exception of church on Sunday mornings. Still it seems like you're doing quite a bit of work, so if there's any way to cut down on your workload a bit, that would be ideal.
Replywow, seems a whole lot more than me. The difference is that I work on the weekends too, including going to church
ReplyI sometimes worked on the weekends, but it usually was at the same time as church, so I could really only do one or the other on a given weekend.
ReplyI think your siblings should help you out.
ReplyNo I don't think that's too much. It just looks like a lot because you feel obligated into doing these and you're not doing it out of your own heart. All teens are busy creating a future for their own adult lives.
ReplyYou asked what a normal lifestyle for a teenager is, I don't know what you mean by normal. But in my country/culture, everyone wakes up before sunrise to offer the morning prayers. Including me. So I wake up and offer my morning prayers by 5am, make breakfast for everyone and clean the house, go to school which starts at 7am. Come home at 2:30pm. I pray noon prayers. I eat. I go to my religious classes which start at 3pm. I come home at 5pm. I offer my afternoon prayers. I go to school tuition at 5:30pm, return home at 7pm. I offer my evening prayers. I make dinner. I clean the house. I do homework. Then around 9pm I offer my night prayers, and then I go to sleep.
Girls aren't allowed to have an every day job as a teen in my culture, but I used to have that work-study life when I lived in the US, so I understand the stress you are talking about.
But I have lived in several countries and I have observed that teens are busy everywhere. Even kids and adults have a busy lifestyle. So it's "normal" to have too much burden on you every day with a repitive lifestyle. But not acceptable. It's good if you have free time.
I am free on Fridays because that's a religious day where all schools give us early dismissal to home, shops are closed etc, people pray all day on Fridays and I'm busy with guests on weekends or go to people's weddings or funerals (People always have some sort of social event going on every week)
ReplyWow, I'll never complain about my schedule again. These are the best years of your life okay? Don't live them one year after another saying I just gotta get through this hard year then it'll be easier. I spent most of high school doing that and pushing people away so I could study and you know what? The most important thing in life isn't grades. Cheesy as it sounds what makes life worth living in caring for other people and them caring for you. Living the way I did burn me out and I became numb. I don't want that to happen to you especially since you have more on your plate than I did. Don't let yourself burn out and make spending time with friends just as necessary as schoolwork because it is. Also when you tell your parents it might help to write out a detailed list of your schedule so they can't yell over you before you get everything out.
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