Here's Liz Atwood with this week's Tween Tuesday

Here are three words I’d like to ban from my house: “I don’t care.”

Those words, and the shorter variant, “Who cares?” are the responses my kids give me when I tell them it’s time to do their homework or do their chores. It is their response when I start to nag them about picking their clothes off the floor or cleaning up their dishes.

“It’s time to walk the dog,” I say. “I don’t care,” they answer. “You need to make your bed,” I say. “Who cares?” is the reply.

Let’s face it, it’s hard to live with tweens and teens sometimes. But it helps knowing that my kids aren’t the only ones with a mouth. Here are some good suggestions from Parenting.com on how to fix that rude tween behavior.