Did anyone read the Sunday Times article, Do your kids do chores? It made me roll my eyes so much they nearly fell out!
Here is an excerpt :
Housewife Tio Hui Siang, 54, has given up asking son Jonathan Tan, 15, to help out around the house. When he wants a cup of Milo, he just asks for it, and mum makes it for him at once……
And this one made me laugh,
However, a poll of 250 youths by LifeStyle shows that contrary to the image of slacker teens not lifting a finger around the home, the majority do help out with chores.
Those surveyed were aged from 13 to 20 and they were asked what chores they did from a list of 10, which included mopping or sweeping the floor, making the bed and washing the dishes.
A total of 170 said they did chores. Another 35 said they do them occasionally, while 45 youths said they do not help around the home at all.
The most popular chores included getting their own drink, getting their own meals, frying an egg and making the bed.
More can be found here –
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_359699.html
Why did I laugh?
Since when can getting oneself a drink be considered a chore? Might as well call brushing one’s teeth a chore too! Or peeing! Is it only me who thinks that that is ridiculous?
Obviously our children do chores around the house. In fact, I am constantly thinking of more chores they can help me out with. And here you have youths who say they do help out and list getting a drink as a chore. Makes mockery of the chores children around the world do!
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Oh i didn’t laugh, i shuddered!
Did you read about the one with 2 maids? Said he’d die if he didn’t have a maid. And there was also one who said she wldn’t expect her child to do chores, she’d just get a maid. And the mum who said she’d rather her children concentrate on their studies/jobs etc.
What has become of these children?? They can’t even lift a finger for themselves! I can’t help but think that all this just breeds very selfish children who expect to be waited on and served.
I could go on but it’s too depressing.
but you know what? i was raised like that! mom said concentrate on studies, don’t do housework. BAD decision man. I struggled to learn how to do household chores. and that’s why I don’t want my children to be so crippled. it is an important lifeskill. but now, people are proud they don’t know how to cook or keep a home.
my mum made sure we did our chores: washing dishes, sweeping, mopping, right down to laundry and ironing, even cooking.
it’s not just about life skills (altho i agree tt’s very impt) it’s also about pitching in, doing your share, being responsible, not expecting to be waited on – a spirit of service and humility, i guess.
Anyway, I think if they really need to, they just HAVE to! Like my dh who was studying away from home(& dear mommy). My SIL doesn’t know bc she never lived away from home and when she finally did, it was for work – so she employed a maid(bc by then working already – so have money, right? student too poor). Oh well. She still doesn’t know how to iron her clothes!
yes, just like how I had to learn! the painful way! it’s not easy to learn on the job especially when you have young children. Better to have learnt it all earlier without the kids around.
SIL has NO kids. She’s 50!!!
Lol Sam!
this is one article i regret’d reading. and to think that these teens could be the students whoom I’d taught ten (+/-) years ago !
i’m proud of my 8yo missy who does help with the chores (not making her own milo btw) like laundry, changing sheets etc. my student who has a maid cannot even throw the tissue paper she had used into the bin herself. *shudders.
jesselyn ng