Parenting Teens: Genetic Tic?

It is true that only women can give birth. I am female, of age and married, so in my immediate family I am the only one who can give birth. There are a few other things I have come to realize only I can do:

Only I can:

Toss out empty shampoo bottles left in the shower. 

Unload and load a dishwasher without being told too.

Both notice and wash a smelly dog.

Carry a new roll of paper towels all the way up from the basement.

Do a full load of wash each time the machine is run.

Find other household members misplaced Bibles (whether missed place at

home, in church or in the car. My internal Bible finding GPS gets a lot of use)               

My husband works very hard to support us and I am the at home spouse so I don’t expect him to do the above actions any more than I expect he would have given birth to any of our children. If I was working outside the home thing most likely would be different, but I’m not. The children are another matter.

At one point in time (between the ages of 4-12), they could perform any of the above actions even if they couldn’t give birth. Some weird genetic convolution must take place after age 13 and they lose the ability to do the above or even to notice that something needs to be done (hence our 2 smelly dogs).

This has to be a strange genetic tic, what else could it be? (Note the irony of the Getting From Here to There posts)

If your kids aren’t teens, you may not think there is a strange genetic tic that occurs after 13. (After all what else could be causing this?) That’s okay, maybe your kids won’t tic.

But if you have teens: how does this strange genetic tic, manifest itself in your home?

Counter fairies…..how I could forget they believe in counter fairies!