Kids Nowadays
Monday, July 5, 2010
Lately, I'm observe kids so much and thought of how to improve them to become better so how. Of course not to anyone but the closest one like my niece or nephew.
Realize that they are only need to concentrate on their school works. Apart from school works, either they watch TV/DVD, play games (nintendo, wii and etc), none of them will help mom in doing some houseworks.
This is the thing I don't really like it. Being a child, apart from your school works, eventhough you are not helping your mom in doing houseworks. At least, you should take good care of yourself. Like, tidy up your own work place, do your school work, practise your piano without shouting to do so over and over again, discipline, watch out your time management, throw your dirty cloths into washing machine, and etc.
Being a 9 years old girl/boy and above, I believe they can take care themselves with minimum supervision from their parents. But then again, kids are spoilt badly. They don't care about their school works, examinations, time management. They are just being lazy and so much so depends on their parents including the simplest thing which they can just do it themselves -- comb their hairs! These eventually added to a mom's or dad's burden.
I remember when we were young (sister/brother and myself), we can take care of ourselves very good. I'm proud to say so. You know why?
1/ We were so independent until my parents can leave 3 of us at home for a week and opt for holidays.
2/ We cooked lunch & dinner when parents were abroad. Of course not including the shopping part. Usually, they will buy veggies/meats/fruits that can last for a week.
3/ We set alarm and woke up ourselves in the morning. Prepare ourselves and made our breakfast before we wake up mom to send us to school. Usually mom will prepare breads or coco-crunch the night before, in the morning, we just need to made ourselves a cup of milo.
4/ First things reach home, we do houseworks and followed by school works without hesitate. I remember vaguelly, that my mom was so cute, she assigned us houseworks. I was assigned to take care all clothing. Wash cloths (washing machines or hand wash), clotheslines, fold cloths, iron cloths. Basically, everything about cloths. Whereas my sister was assigned to take care of floor, sweep and mop the floor since I don't sweep/mop as clean as my sister does. :P Last but not least, my brother was still very young that time, so he did a light & easy one.. dustbin cleaner ! hahahahah
*a lot more to share but lazy to type*
We were all trained since young, including cooking. Amazing right? I would say, my mom is such a good trainer. Now, she don't houseworks but us. I wonder, how to train the kids nowadays since it's not mine... I would say, they are just so pampered, well taken care of and spoilt badly.
