Getting People to do Chores of their Own Accord! Shower Burglar?!

I found something weird in the bathroom today. It was a long, dark, curly hair. Now, we've got a lady in our house staying with us, Allison, and she's got SHORT, blond and brown hair. My mom has wavy hair, but it's not long. Teddy and dad have short hair. Nobody has long, curly hair!

So I was hoping it was mine. My hair is turning curly?? I wish it was....

Haha. Well... probably not. I guess we have a trespassing shower-stealing burglar lurking around our house??

 I was cleaning in an attention-deficit sort of way today, and suddenly I came up with an idea for getting Teddy to do his chores of his own will. That basically never happens unless 1) he's been told it's his duty, and 2) he's motivated because he wants to finish and go do something else.

Where I work, there are about five to seven nursing assistants on the floor for each eight-hour shift. We are assigned (each) to mainly one hall, and have around seven to nine medically ill or elderly or people to care for. We help those people maintain hygiene, get their meals on-time, and go about other daily activities. The "residents" (patients) have different levels of illness. Some of them are completely independent, so they barely even need us to check on them for the entire shift. Others need help with only certain activities, while a few are completely dependent and need help for absolutely everything, or they would just lie in bed all day.

Even though we have "assignments" and specified tasks as nursing assistants, it's our job to help the residents when they need help, not just the residents we're assigned to-- which means that I'm always taking care of other people's residents-- but in turn, the assistants on my hall help me out with my residents whenever its necessary, as well.

So, while I was doing ADD cleaning-- I thought-- HEY!!

Teddy is given all these assigned tasks (and I'm really not, which seems a little weird, maybe my parents are afraid to make me do things... hee hee... that's really not good, is it?) such as recycling, walking and feeding the dog, vacuuming, and then he also has to do homework, practice piano, and practice violin.

Heavy stuff. And my mom is always are going, "Teddy, do the recycling. Time to practice. Do you hear the dog barking? Did you do the vacuuming? Are you playing Xbox again? I'm going to take away your privileges! Etc etc etc! "

But he NEVER does anything he doesn't have to. And why?

'Cause we don't help. If we helped sometimes when it was needed, or even more regularly than that, he'd do his chores because he wants to help us back. And how can he believe that these things really are part of his responsibilities BECAUSE he's part of our family... if we don't do it too?

We're being bad examples.

So I decided, I'm going to quit this. I'm going to be helpful, and treat him like I want him to treat me. (In other things, not just chore-doing!)

I will be telling Teddy about this later, but for now, I want to see if it works. I could be missing something important, so I'm going to try it out first. I do know that this happens to other families, though, and I don't want it to get any worse.

*Sigh*... well, here goes!