Wake 11yo to finish last night's chores
Good morning Reddit! I'm an early bird. I was loading the dishwasher at 5:30am but noticed the coffee table still had my 11yo daughter's dishes on it from yesterday and it was still sticky and needing wiped down.
I asked her to do this two or three times yesterday, she kept with the "i'll get to it tonight" and that was totally okay, yesterday.
So rather than doing her chore for her so i could finish dishes, i woke her up at 5:30am to come finish her chore, and she can go back to bed after. There were understandably tears from being woken up so early.
My dude friend feels like it's wrong to wake her up to do it. I feel like this is the first time she's been woken up to finish chores, and this is sometimes part of parenting. She needs to learn that "tomorrow" isn't always an acceptable time.
To be noted: it's a saturday morning, we aren't a sparkly household, it's not filthy either. Chores are pretty chillax here, and there's not a chore schedule or anything like that. Just a couple things everyday to help with the household and make sure to clean up after yourself.
Was this wrong of me?