Kids Should Learn Household Chores

How have you spent your Wednesday so far? It is my rest day and I was kind of busy the whole day for some household fixing so I just checked my account late this afternoon.

I’m a bit tired and exhausted. I just did some carpentry work and a little mixing of cement for some house renovation. Yes, more like construction working but not as extra income. Just doing some repairs at home.

My hands are tired due to wood sawing and cement mixing. I'm beginning to feel some body pain which is normal for a whole day of working while the sun is up.

I wanted to pass for my daily article here at read.cash so I lay down on bed while my wife is preparing for dinner. I started playing World War Heroes on my mobile phone to spend time while resting. After playing for three sets, I logged out and browsed the net for anything that I may find interesting. After thirty minutes laying in bed, I pulled myself and opened the PC instead. You know I am just resting and better to just write than spending time doing nothing.

So here I am, still trying to write for my daily post for you to read. My fingers don’t seem to cooperate but are not tired from typing on my keyboard.

I’m thinking of what to share for you today but while doing my intro, I have it in mind already. 

Being Obedient

I always mentioned in some of my posts that I grew up a poor kid. Meaning I was used to doing household tasks, light and heavy, at an early age. That would include fetching water for household consumption, assisting mother for the laundry, buying firewood for cooking, and assisting father with his job as a motorcycle mechanic.

We are five kids and everyone has given the assigned task by our mother so that no one would be pinpointing of who’s going to do a certain task.

I was assigned to do the fetching of water for daily consumption like for drinking, cooking and for washing the dishes. As for the laundry, mother would just go to the deep well and I will assist her with washing the clothes.  

Imagine filling two drums with 100 liters of water, then fetching it with a bucket.  Then I would walk at least fifty meters back and forth, the distance of the deep well from our house. I would do the process two times daily. One in the morning and the other one late in the afternoon. I think I have been doing it for over 10 years because we don't have our own house, so we lack electricity and water at home too. We used kerosene lamp for lighting our home during the night.

Aside from those tasks, I used to cut grass too when the landlord would ask for someone to do the lawn. I would do it manually using a bolo. At the end of the day I would have callus in my hands.

It appears that most of my childhood was spent with household labor. So at a young age, you would see visible veins in both of my hands. 

Blue-collar job

When I went to Metro Manila, I was employed at printing and publishing. Working in that type of industry was real hard labor. However I did not find any difficulty when given a certain task because I was already used to hard physical tasks during my childhood. I was in the industry for more than ten years. 

The only thing that challenged me and found it somewhat difficult was when I would be assigned to work on night shift. That’s kind of tiresome because another thing was that it’s hard to sleep during the day especially if you are renting in slum areas in Manila.

Nevertheless I still managed to live a normal life. But I always think of leaving the company and changing career as I kind of losing my taste in the field.

Until one day I have the opportunity to work in an office which is my current job right now. It seemed that my agony had ended. No more hard physical labor. Less risk of accidents in the workplace as I no longer handle large and dangerous machines for printing. Less sweating while working and more comfortable. Unlike before, I have to carry heavy and large sheets of paper and cans of inks or would do general maintenance of the machine.

This is where my body is missing. I have been working in an office, sitting for more than five years and my body has been rested for manual labor. So whenever I do some hard manual task at home, I get easily tired.

I think there is an advantage in working with blue-collar jobs because there is no need to go to the gym to exercise. Your physical body is working the whole day so you release those sweats while working without the need for exercise.

This is the problem I am facing right now, I am no longer used to working on hard labor. I get easily exhausted whenever I do some hard task at home.

Teaching Kids of Household Chores

One thing that worries me is that my kids grow up without experiencing hard manual tasks at home. My fourteen-year old son doesn't even know how to wash his undies. I think I am having a problem here. However he always belongs to top the notch in their class since day care up to 8th grade.

So my advice is if you are a parent and experience hardship during childhood, we should teach our kids some household chores. Of course we would not want our kids to experience hardships too just like ours. As much as possible we would want to give them what we don’t have during our childhood. But at the end of the day we will regret it if our kids don’t even know how to wash the dishes. Remember that they will have their own family too so it is important to teach them more about house rules.

Anyway I hope I have shared some valuable content even if my hands  are tired for some household task today.

So how about you, did you grow up the same as my childhood? Do you have kids? How did you handle household tasks with your kiddos? Share it in the comment so we exchange thoughts. 

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

Feel free to check my previous posts:

Ending The Pain And Suffering

Don't Be Shy: Share Your Passion To the World

Not All Your Interests Are Your Passion

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