Few days ago, when I came back from work, Yaya was vacuuming the living room, my son was in the pergola hanging the laundry and my youngest was in the kitchen cooking dinner. They are 18, soon to be 17 and 15 years old respectively.
I had always dreamt of a house like the little women ( L.M Alcott) More so because I never did any work in my mother’s home. She didn’t want me to help her and even if I tried to help her, she had a million complaints and found fault in every little thing.
If I wanted to complain, I could find a million reason too.. Yaya had forgotten to dust first before vacuuming, my son had not turned to socks right-side out and baby should have checked if the yeast was alive by proofing it before making the bread dough. (I think she used really hot water that killed the yeast while making the dough)
I didn’t complain because I am really grateful for every little help my children give. I am not expecting them to be me or like me. They are individuals with their own personalities and when they make a mistake, they learn from it. Earth won’t stop spinning just because the TV had dust on it or the socks were not as clean as I like them to be..We ate hard bread rolls for dinner and my youngest now knows the need to proof the yeast. And because the house work was done by the time I got back home, we had time to go out for a movie and ice cream.
It is a lot better not to complain when your children help you with chores.
“I didn’t complain because I am really grateful for every little help my children give. I am not expecting them to be me or like me. They are individuals with their own personalities and when they make a mistake, they learn from it. Earth won’t stop spinning just because the TV had dust on it or the socks were not as clean as I like them to be..We ate hard bread rolls for dinner and my youngest now knows the need to proof the yeast. And because the house work was done by the time I got back home, we had time to go out for a movie and ice cream.
It is a lot better not to complain when your children help you with chores.”
Perfectly said. I hope a lot of people see this and use this as a role model, because it seems a lot of parents, particularly Asians are never satisfied in what their kids do for them (from what I seen from my friends/others and some personal experiences), and always demand more.
J1206: 🙂