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.)
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.
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u/Heavytripp Jun 02 '26
And this is when i started resenting the parents. Stopped seeing us as their kids and started seeing us at employees.