for your future daughter

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Re: for your future daughter

@Mezhgan

Someone mentioned not imposing unfair standards and having only the daughters help with the housework and I quite agree with that. However, I don’t think having children learn to clean and look after themselves and the house is a bad idea, provided that this is expected of BOTH sons and daughters. At uni, I had classmates, both girls and guys, who couldn’t even boil a packet of instant soup because mummy had always done everything for them and never expected them to help around the house.

This is slightly different but on a similar note but I’m really not keen on this idea many people have of “oh, you just study” and not having children do anything else. At uni and later on in the workplace and in life, we often have multiple responsibilities, so I find it unrealistic to get children accustomed to only doing one thing at a time. The people I went to uni with who were raised this way really had issues coping with doing more than one thing at a time or having multiple responsibilities and that’s something I’d like to avoid.

That’s actually so true. My dada (bless his heart) always scolded my parents for making me do chores around the house, and my mom would insist I help her in the kitchen at times when I could. I think it’s very important to be an all rounder too and not just sit and study. Yes education was super important to my parents and they always made sure my homework was done BUT knowing how to do things around the house was totally important to my mom. My MIL always raves about it now because she thinks I’m a great cook and cleaner LOL. I owe it all to my mom though, I hated it at the time, but now even my dada ji always speaks highly of how my mom raised me and my sister well. Good point.