The Chore of Getting Your Own Drink

[prodigal_sun]

The papers surveyed 250 youths aged 13 to 20 if they do household chores. While i'm not surprised nor bothered about results of questions like "do you make your own bed", "do you wash your clothes", "do you mop or sweep the floor", i was totally floored that 43 out of 250 responded NO to the question "DO YOU GET YOUR OWN DRINK

Comments

[inex]

likely its the maid getting them brats the drink. The only way I could get someone to get me a drink when I was a kid is when i was a baby or too weak to get up from sickbed!

[prodigal_sun]

you know what, i would be even more shocked if it's the parents / siblings getting them the drinks lol

[chashaobao]

i was more surprised that "getting your own drink" even counts as a CHORE. like wtf? one of these days, we'll probably need to portion food into bite sized pieces for them as well.

but oh, you know what, it's our EDUCATION SYSTEM's fault, 'cause like teachers are not teaching them the right values.

(can you tell i'm bitter? hahaha.)

[prodigal_sun]

ya next you know it would be a chore to swallow their saliva and they will just die hahah

no lah, these kind of values must come from family! teachers are convenient scapegoats :P

[buzz_cut]

Erm, right now J and me are at the beck and call of the little one. Wanna smack him for me? Better still, wanna take over looking after him? Hahaha!

[prodigal_sun]

cannot smack, cos he's not 13 years old yet :)
even if 13, i also dont dare cos scared daddy give me a smackdown too wahhaha

[sansation]

the parents these days are not parenting la, farming their kids out to infant and childcare centers, then blaming everything on the teachers and letting the kids get away with murder, tsk tsk. but no such issues in my family, the little guy cant even leave his water bottle lying on the floor after he has thrown it there after drinking... lol

[prodigal_sun]

lol @ "farming kids out".
good on you for teaching your kid the right values! :D

[sansation]

many ppl are having a kid for the sake of having a kid and not that they truly want 1. and somehow it also seems to be 'fashionable' for retards barely out of their teens to have shotgun marriages. i shudder to think of the type of kids in the generation my son will be growing up with.

[sansation]

hey btw the new ramen place in HV, lor liput is quite nice.

[allycat79]

It's the maid problem. Often, I've seen even grown ups(rich peers) who would ask the maid to pour even a glass of water for them even if the kitchen is just a walk away.Probably those 43 people interviewed are really those with maids. The parents din teach the kids the right values. I do have a fren who has 3 kids & 2 maids yet never allow such things to happen. It's the family.

[prodigal_sun]

yea i agree, it's all the values inculcated by the family....