Your opinion matters/Week #3/Children and responsibilities at home

What we used to see on TV series, comedy and other forms of visual/audio entertainment is beginning to play out in our communities today.
What children watch on TV or get from thier peer group seems to them as the truth.
This is no doubt as to how parents are neglecting thier role of strict parenting in the home.

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Judging from the report given by @genomil . How a 14 year old took her life and also leaving a note behind which stated that she felt like a housemaid in her parents house.
Imagine someone at that tender age taking her life because she thinks she's a slave in her own mother's house. How pitiful....🤦
If I'm not mistaken, I see such act as a result of lack of proper upbringing or maybe personal foolishness of the child. If there's any other considerable reason, I don't think it's enough to take ones live.

I have experienced life from different perspectives growing up. I've lived with my parents, lived with my aunt, lived with my granny and even alone. I know how it could be tiresome , doing many house chores and sleeping late some nights.
This doesn't mean I'm a slave , or hated by my elderly ones . But these thing have to be done.

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Now, that take us to the main purpose of this article; "Children and responsibilities at home"

Do you think it is right to give children responsibilities at home?	•

Yes, why not...?
I mean, why are you even there...?
Generally, it is considered a norm to assign responsibilities to children according to their age. These responsibilities helps to teach them accountability, reliability and the importance of contributing positively in the home.
While giving these responsibilities, it is also important not to disregard the child's age, abilities, health conditions, workloads etc, in order to ensure that the responsibilities are bearable and manageable.

I'll list some age groups and the kind of responsibilities that can be assigned to them;

👶 Preschool age (2-5 years old):
Some little tasks like ;
•Putting away toys after playing with it, puting away thier dishes after eating.
•Making their bed, but with assistance.
•Helping set the table also with assistance.
•Putting dirty clothes in the hamper, etc

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🙍 Elementary age (6-11 years old):
•Sweeping floors
•Helping with laundry
•Emptying the trash
•Dusting furniture
•Washing dishes or loading the dishwasher
•Helping prepare simple meals.

🙎 Teenagers (12 years and above)
•Cleaning bathrooms
•Cleaning out the refrigerator
•Grocery shopping with a list made by the parents
•Washing the car
•Mopping the floor, etc
•Cooking some simple meals, etc.
However, these are just a few examples, and these responsibilities can be adjusted based on the child's abilities and the household's needs.

How do you think events like this impact child-rearing	•

*There's this woman I know, she was opportune to get married at an early age , so she also had kids early.
Since she couldn't deal with the work load , she had to take in an househelp...like a maid. But due to her maltreatment of the maid, the young girl left after about a month. The ones she took in after, won't even stay up to 3 week, they'll leave...
This was the case. Even when her children were grown, she won't let them help around the house. The three children she had were older than the maid. But she'll make the maid do all the laundry, wash thier bathroom, do practically almost all domestic work in the house. There were some days the maid couldn't go to school because she hadn't finished with the work at home.
It got to a point where the woman couldn't take in any other maid , since the last one left. Now, she does everything in the house alone without help from the children.
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There are all grown now. Even the daughter doesn't contribute anything in the kitchen. All what she cares about is herself. And it's funny how they're still living under their parents roof and displaying this kind of attitude.*

What I'm extracting from the story is that, had it been these children were taught to help around the house at an early age, the woman in the story wouldn't be suffering to do all the house chores alone. I mean it so pathetic. Because even to wash thier dishes after eating, she has to complain over and over again before the do. These are people that are over 28 years of age

Now talking about the 14 year old girl that kill herself, it's not a new thing. It has been happening else where.
I guess this is the first time you might have heard of it.
Such event should make parents to have a closer look at thier children, find out what is bothering them.
Because it not funny at all.
It could be that while the child was growing up, she wasn't allowed to do house chores at home. Maybe they had a maid or the mother could handle everything on her own. And now that she becoming older and there's no maid, she needed the daughter's assistance. But being that this girl wasn't initially raised that way, might think that she's being taken as a maid or slave as she claimed in the note.
This shouldn't put fear in parents. But create an awareness as to how important it is to start raising their children probably at an early age.

Also, parents should try to always appreciate their children whenever the carry out and complete a given task at home. And give correction with love in whatever they may have gotten wrong. This little form of gratitude can encourage the children to do more. And not take is as maltreatment.

I bet if that 14 year old was raised in a Godly and morally upright manner, such event couldn't have played out.

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I'll like to conclude by saying that. In as much as parents wants the best for their children, there should also consider that the society needs people that are hardworking. Assigning responsibilities to their children will help the become useful and responsible in the society.

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