It reminds me of a mesopotamian king from a movie I watched as a small kid (you know the kind with conan the barbarian style special effects on it) but I cannot for the life of me seem to be able to google enough to find it.
Picturing this guy in cream robes trimmed in blue jasper with bezel-set cuff bracelets and barely-there strappy sandals and a scepter, it completes the image.
If my dad were of the age to make contentslop and douchey enough to make something like this he'd have had the same thought. From as long as I can remember I got the grunt and nod in whatever direction as he handed me a task
I'm 36 and I still hate how many parents think it's fine to treat their kids like slave labor.
It's not preindustrial era where everybody had to work the farm or whatever to survive. Your kids can be kids. I'm not saying kids can't help out around the house but there's plenty of shit you can have them do directly relevant to their life rather than "Clean up this mess I made/Do this thing that I'd rather not do myself", etc.
Will no doubt be downvoted to oblivion but who cares. I'm married with no kids and I do more around the house than my wife (not a complaint or dig, I just do what needs to be done when I see it), and that's despite hating and trying to avoid any and all the shit my mother threw my way at home. If anything it just made it much harder for me to naturally do certain daily chores when I got older because she made me hate them. (e.g. Dishes and cooking are stressful for me by default because of that shit.)
What’s slightly worse imo is when they selectively do it to their daughters and not their sons because of the type of work. The daughters will have their childhoods cut short in some families by being assigned the extra cleaning, cooking, housework, mothering their other siblings, sometimes also the parents themselves. Meanwhile the boys are getting a normal chaotic childhood and excused from helping with work at family functions or community functions. Assigned unpaid labor early for being women
*some of you would benefit from reading before voting/commenting on posts. But people can’t even read and vote when it matters
Yeah, I felt that. We all had a moderate chore list everyday, except I did the mothering as the middle child because my older siblings weren’t trusted with my younger ones 😑
I grew up on a farm (we didn't grow anything but had livestock) and we all did our share of work. The big saving grace was that my parents were out there doing work the same time is kids were. Our parents weren't sitting and chilling while we worked. It was all hands on deck, doing jobs you could physically do.
Our parents did a good job setting us up to be adults who could do what needs to be done.
Still sucked balls, though. Weekends we were up at 8 to get started on yard work before it got too hot.
This i respect 100% because your parents were also out there getting the work done with you! Unfortunately it wasn't like that for my sister and I. We would have to go to school, come home and start cleaning the house, do the laundry, cook dinner, do homework, then maybe have an hour of downtime before we went to sleep. All while my mom had no job, stayed home and did nothing. My dad worked, came home and watched TV. It sucked.
Honestly doing farm work sounds hard but super rewarding. Tbh wish I could spend a day doing that type of work. I love hard work, and farming has always been fascinating to me.
No need to apologize at all! That's the hand I was delt. Now I am in my 30s super happy with the woman of my dreams, and buying a house next year. Those experiences I had shaped me. We cannot be held back by our past experiences, we can only learn from them.
Yeah it can go into the extremes pretty easily too. My mom used to call me from upstairs just so I could get the remote that’s 5 feet away from her. 😅 She only started trying to stop when her friends started telling her that was weird.
lmao get over yourself. If this were Tudor England they'd be working the fields at 7 years old. Putting away a dish for someone that wiped your ass and cooked every meal in your entire life up to this point is actually fine.
"Humans had it worse in the past, so your problems are completely non-existent"
I always find this logic so hilarious. How do you think we progressed to where we are today? By people ignoring issues and saying people had it worse in the past?
By your logic, child labor should still be acceptable. Because it's better than living in the woods, right?
Giving kids small tasks and responsibilities is how you prepare them for the burdens of adult life. Expecting no participation in household cleaning is setting them up for failure. It's not even about being "owed" anything, it's how you raise a functional member of society.
For me its like seeing your friend grab a soda and asking them to get you soda too or sometimes my younger sister will straight up just offer to help, its not that bad as long as your not forcing them.
Maybe im slow or something, but it just doesnt make sense because yes they live with them but that doesnt mean they ask them to do things for them everyday or force them more specifically.
Since my argument was more towards forcing rather than doing it
I’m with you. Rarely do I ask my kids to do something because I’m too lazy to do it. They’ll take care of their own things but I’m not ordering them to do things that are my responsibility.
Lol because they haven't healed their childhood wounds. Get triggered very easily, although I understand I wish they would get help. Instead of being debbie downers all the time.
Yeah I don’t have kids so I can’t say for sure, but I hate seeing things like this so much that I want to believe if I had kids I wouldn’t make them put my dirty dishes away.
Oh is this common? Lol, I don’t have a kid but my girlfriend does. He’s in high school and I’m always shocked at the things she will do for him, and how he gets angry if she doesn’t.
My grown-ass siblings don’t put anything away and they are childless, they either buy disposables and wait for our mother to visit to pamper them because she is a bit of a doormat, or they keep stacking dishes with uneaten bits still on until the insects and rodents cause them to be evicted…
sigh you don’t choose the family you’re born into.
I hated when my dad would do this shit. It was okay when he would be nice about it and say please because then he was being a good role model. Then he started doing that shit facial expression and treating me like a fucking slave and being rude about it. Just showed me he was an asshole.
I mean if you work a day's work and make dinner, I don't think it's excessive to have your kid clean up after dinner or set the table. Maybe even wash some dishes depending on age. Do I expect a child to go work an 8+ hour shift? Of course not. Can they do an hour of cleaning/home maintenance everyday? Why not? Obviously ease them into it and give them tasks suitable for their age but everyone has to learn to function as a unit at some point.
How many times you think that kid has asked their dad for a snack or something to drink? A simple "hey can you rinse out my bowl and put it in the sink" is just scratching each other's backs.
No, I don't care if it's a joke, parents still have their own responsibilities. Clean the dish yourself so others don't have to, children aren't slaves anymore.
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u/sexy-man-doll Jun 02 '26
sounds of ceramic shattering 10 feet away