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Age Group
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Action
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Is This Advantagious
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Comments
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13-18
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Chop Firewood for you
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Yes
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Gives Dad / Mum a chance to watch TV
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13-18
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Cook your meals
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Yes
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Gives Mum a rest and they cook what they learnt at school
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13-18
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Sundry expenses - clothes, food, outings etc.
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No
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Always need "Named" items of clothing - four or five times the cost of real ordinary items
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13-18
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Feed ducks at the local park
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No
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Usually grown out of this experience - but can still be amused with the swings etc. sometimes.
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13-18
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Find things you dropped on the ground
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No
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At this stage they are too lazy to bend down and look
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13-18
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Go to the Royal Easter Show
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Yes
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If you love this event - however it will now cost a large fortune instead of a small one
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13-18
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Insurance Excess
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No
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As soon as they get their permit they become uninsurable - at least for less than twice the value of the car
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13-18
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Mow your lawns
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Yes
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Sometimes give mum and dad a break - often requires bribery
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13-18
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Nervous breakdowns - theirs or yours
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No
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Depends on whether you want to off-load the wife
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13-18
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Playing with toys in shops
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Yes
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Boys will still be boys
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13-18
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Provide Grand-kids
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No
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Bit young yet
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13-18
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Deplete the oxygen supply unnecessarily
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No
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With all the talking on the phone they use up far too much
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13-18
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Needed to perpetuate the species - but do we need so many?
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No
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At this stage you have grave doubts about the survival of the species
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13-18
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Teach adults new words
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Yes
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And the adult can relate to all of them
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13-18
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Interrupt social activities
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Yes
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Can always claim they overdosed at a party and you have to go to hospital to bail them out again
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13-18
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Create the need for extra phone lines
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No
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Just have to have extra lines installed so that you can make or receive the occasional important call - never give them
the number of your special line
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13-18
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Costs of their hobbies
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No
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Teenage peer pressure, designer shoes, shorts, caps etc.
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13-18
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Unreliable - except in their unreliability
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Yes
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You can predict that they will not do a single thing you ask them to
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13-18
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Stay out late - leading to worry and hair loss
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No
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It starts now and gets worse
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13-18
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Noisy
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No
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Loud techno noise [sometimes called music]
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13-18
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Puberty
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No
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Please give us strength to endure this period
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13-18
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Your car never home when you need it
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No
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After they get their licence you get a lot more exercise - walking!
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