I’ve done chores almost all my life and never got paid for it. I look at it this way. My parents don’t get paid for doing chores so why should I. I also think that if our house wasn’t clean then nobody would want to come to our house and we’d never have friends. People are discussing the issue of if kids should get paid for doing chores or not. So do you think that kids should get paid for doing chores? Well I’m here to tell you that kids do not deserve to get paid for doing chores. Kids should not be paid for doing chores because chores have to be done. Mom says, "Your dad doesn't get paid for doing the dishes so why should you?” I think this is a very strong statement from mom and that she presents a very good point. Mom also says, "What
Some people look at chores as a bad thing. When in reality they are not all that bad.
It was a right-of passage that I, and everyone else I knew, had to endure. I do not know one person who likes doing chores. My parents not only had me do them because they had to get done, but to teach me how to be self- sufficient. No self-respecting adult should ever have to ask anyone how to wash dishes, clean a bathroom or do their laundry. These were the types of chores I did on a weekly basis. The statement that Enrenreich makes is probably one of the rudest things I have ever read, “Upper-middle-class children raised in the servant economy…are bound to grow up as domestically incompetent as their parents and no less dependent on people to clean up after them”(Enrenreich). I cannot even remember the number of times I have washed dishes, mopped/vacuumed floors, taken out the trash or even shoveled snow. As I said before, I am guilty of being an upper-middle-class child. Though people have cleaned my house, I too have done that. So I completely appreciate it when others do the cleaning, but I am speaking for myself and not all children that grew up in an upper-middle-class household. Reading Enrenreich’s article did cause me to reflect on how I acted around the cleaning people that worked in our house. Her anecdotes brought back memories of some of the things I had done. Though, I was young and did not fully understand that what I was doing wrong. However, as I continued to read the article I felt compelled to check my
We have tried explaining to our parents, nicely, about our feelings toward these chores. Some of us have even tried begging our parents to not give as many chores as usual so that we have time to do homework or go out with our friends. But it is obvious that our actions have been ignored and this is why we have to write this Declaration of Independence.
“Teach her to say ‘sugarpie’” is said by Mrs. Crater in the story The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Conner. This short southern gothic story is about a shifty man named Mr. Shiftlet, a deceitful mother known as Mrs. Crater, and her daughter, Lucynell. To say Mrs. Crater is worse than Mr. Shiftlet is an understatement. In short, Mrs. Crater shows her deceitful side throughout this story, proving her to be more of an awful person than that of Mr. Shiftlet. Moreover, Mrs. Crater shows her deceitful, cunning personality when Mr. Shiftlet shows up to their property and realizes Lucynell, her daughter is deaf and even a mute.
Without the government restrictions, one event that would occur would be that our children would be working very long ours, getting paid less than everyone else. Our children could be doing the same jobs adults do or should do, but get paid significantly less. “Nearby, nine-year-old Cristina works alongside five family members, including siblings and cousins. This is her second week- end in the fields and she struggles to keep up with the others. Together, the six hope to earn $100 for a full day’s work, which averages out to around $2 per hour worked. More than a dozen other children are working in the same field. They lean over to snip and gather onions. Exhaustion paints their faces as they carry heavy buckets to burlap sacks stationed around the field. The children earn about a penny for every pound of onions picked” (Child Labour Stories). This implies that the children are doing labor that is significantly harder than the average middle-class jobs, and getting paid as if it is worth nothing. These children should get paid as equal as adults, because they are working even harder tha...
“I didn’t get a chance to do my chores today. I was busy earlier, but I’ll make sure to get them done after work.”
I think that kids should get paid for doing their chores. I think this because kids are going to need money for the stuff that they need or want and making them earn it is a good way to learn responsibility. For example, if your kid wanted to go to the mall, they would do chores to earn the money. So, they help out, get what they want, and
In today’s society, it seems like all parents have their own ways of raising a child. For example, when correcting a child some parents believe the child should be spanked, while other parents believe in just telling the child not to do it again. According to Emily Hughes of the Developmental Psychology Program at Vanderbilt “every parent child relationship is different, so there is not one sure fire way to go about parenting” (Hughes, 2013). A major difference in today’s parenting methods is whether or not children should have to complete chores around the house and if any, what their compensation should be.
there? Well, that wouldn’t happen anymore if you got your own allowance. I believe that children should receive a weekly allowance for completing his or her list of chores, doing extra to help around the house, and good behavior. In my opinion, children should receive an allowance for doing chores for the purpose of building financial literacy, encouraging independent thinking, and reinforcing good habits.
The chores should be age appropriate. As the children mature, the chores they receive can become more complicated. These chores should vary, in order to teach the children different skills and to maintain fairness, if a parent has more than one child. By accomplishing their tasks, children will gain self-confidence and responsibility. In addition, there are other advantages to giving chores to children. These include getting the children away from video games, computers, and television as well as giving them some physical activity, depending on the chore.
In conclusion, students should be paid to do well in school because it has many benefits to the student. Those benefits include motivation to get good grades, the money would help the student financially, and the student would learn how to manage their money more effectively. School is a big part of every person’s life, so it should be more rewarding to the
Almost done raking leaves, your hands are getting a little cold from the chilly fall air. Done! All the leaves are in piles, now you’re ready to go get your money you worked for. Walking home, you ask yourself, what would I like to buy with this cash? You get home and ask your parents to drive you to the store so you can go buy a toy. They bring you to the store, but they tell you what you are able to buy. Kids get told what they can buy all the time, this dispirits them from becoming independent. Kids should be able to buy what they want.
I seem to always have a reason to clean it though. My boyfriend comes over a lot and he teases me if I forget to unload the dishwasher. My mom is also my biggest critic. She dreams of the day my messy teenager ways will finally end. But if I am not expecting company I tend to slack off. Then I end up with unexpected people over looking at me like I belong on an episode of hoarders. So to motivate myself to keep the place moderately clean I pretend the planets will align and Ryan Reynolds will be at my door. If he shows up to profess his love for me then I want it to look semi-decent. Can’t tell the grandchildren I met their father in a pig pin. Well I could, but I would rather
One thing about life that I never understood is pay role. It makes no sense at all. It seems to me that the more work you do the less you get paid and the less work you do the more you get paid for it. For example, my father started out working as a garbage disposal man. By this I mean that he was the guy hanging off the back of the garbage truck. He would work long days and the physical demand was just exhausting. Could you imagine doing this work in the biting cold of winter or the humid heat of the summer all day long? The pay was not very good. Currently he still is in the same business but I would say a lot further up the ladder than he used to be.
Growing up, my parents were very tradition in the aspect that they had favored my first brother because he was the eldest son even though I was the oldest of all the children. My mother used to lecture me, as early as age 4 or 5, that I needed to learn how to sweep the floor, wipe the table, and start learning how to wash the dishes because one day, I was going to get married and needed to know how to do all those things. I hated it and never put in any effort when I was doing my chores because I would have much rather be outside playing with my brothers and the neighborhood kids. Once I entered my teenage years, I was expected to come straight home after school and cook for the family before starting on my homework.