Teaching your kids to shoulder their shares of household chores starting at a very early age, translated…
As I was growing up, I’d often gotten scolded for no reasons, and, because I didn’t know anything yet, I’d often wondered, why mom got so angry at times. As I got older, I’d started to understand, that because all the burdens of the household was, on her two shoulders, and, other than feeling the strains from life, she couldn’t help, but complained from time to time.
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And because of this, I’d decided after I married, that the household chores will be shouldered by every member of my family. At first, my husband and I would take turns, then after my children got into the elementary years, they’d started doing their shares, helping to sweep, doing the dishes, mopping, taking out the trash, and, on the spring cleaning, the whole family would, work together, to clean up every single corner of the house together.
As I’d started cooking, I’d allowed my kids to help me clean up the vegetables for cooking, to picking out the thrown-aways, even, chopping the vegetables. After some time of training, my son started getting the hang of cooking more and more, last year when he went to summer camp, he’d gotten the title of junior chef champion! And, I’m guessing that because modern day women worked, busied day and night, with no time to prepare the three meals themselves, so they’d gotten take-outs, causing most of the kids today, to not know how to prepare their own meals.
not my photograph still…
Awhile ago I thumbed across an article in the papers, the biggest difference of girlfriends and wife-to-be, is that when faced with the problems of day-to-day living reality, the wife-to-be is someone who can stand side-by-side to the man, a team member. In other words, a spouse who is willing to share the responsibilities of the household, is what keeps a marriage going well, and by this way of thought, having the kids take up their shares of household chores, could be, the key to their future happiness!
After my daughter got into middle school, she’d become burdened by her academia, and, right before her major exams, she’d worked so very hard, to evade her household responsibilities, and yet, I’d always insisted, that she finishes her share, I’d treated my son exactly the same too, after all, I can’t just, quit the “ideal husband/wife in the making” plan as I wanted to.
So, this mother holds true to her values and beliefs of good husband and wife are made, not born, and, by having her children help out with the household chores, she’s teaching them that sense of responsibility, that the household is not just the mommy’s job, it’s everybody else’s too, and, by working together, tackling the chores of the household, this family becomes, even more close to each other.
Life, the Obstacle Course 