Maybe we did have kids just so they could do all our chores?
Right now my teen is doing all the packing, my husband is messing around on his computer, I'm here on mine and my younger kid is outside playing.
Just an update. Everything okay after yesterday's desperate sounding post.
Okay... I'm going to help pack.
-sin
10 comments:
I knew I should have had more! I thoroughly believe in child labor. Mine did his own laundry from age 8 and could cook as well. Scouts taught him how to pack. LOL
And you know if you are a good parent, by how much they protest!
I like Mindsets view! Measuring my success by their protest. Works for me.
I too am a proponent of child labor. Why carry bags when you have "grocery slaves" to do it?
Your teen is definitely right--I personally enjoyed morning sickness, stretch marks, sleepless nights, and around 100 hours of labor just to have children do my chores for me. While telling me I'm the worst mother in the world. Yup.
Your teen is a teen... You had children that hopefully, someday, will be competent adults -- and that includes packing, and laundry, and cooking, and dusting, and keeping the toilet bowl presentable, and ...
The hero of my kids' teen years was Jim Fay, who would advise that, when they complained, the appropriate adult response was a sympathetic sounding "Bummer."
Hugs, swan
Congratualtions, Sin.
I left our Co-Ed a note to ask her to unload the dishwasher today. There is at least a 50% chance that mission will be accomplished.
We do a sharing of chores...and i am ever so glad they are all old enough to help in some fashion.
They put away their laundry most days, help set the table for dinner, clean up their own playspace.
And yes, the teen has the lions share of helping, by keeping an eye on the littles...*smiling* his way of paying back my driving him hither and yon to be with his g/f...
nilla
i know that's why i had kids. Yes. Absolutely.
If they complained too much, i would occasionally suggest they write it down to tell their therapist someday. That amused me immensely. Them - maybe not so much. But it still makes me laugh.
In fact, my younger one laughs with me now about how I used to say she should keep notes to take with her and how she always pictured pulling up in a van, at her therapist's door, with the van loaded with notebooks about how mean i was and how unfair life was...
Ok, i might have enjoyed that part too much...
lol,
aisha
Oh I LIKE the response to this one! Thank you all!
One word...yes!
And someday they'll feel the same way! Circle of life!
Hugs,
mouse
I agree with everyone else. We all did our fair share I think, and its an honorable tradition to pass down. I remember raking leaves, like forever and weeding... so other things, not so bad.
I like the 'bummer' comment. *grins* Will have to remember that.
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