Watching Chore Wars the other day in class, I was a little shocked at some of the ways families delegate responsibilities. Take the Asian family, for instance. She was complaining about all the work she had to do after her paying job, and how her husband didn't help. The whole time I was thinking, "HELLO. You have THREE children." I mean, come on...I've been doing dishes since I was 2. There is a home video at my house of me standing on a kitchen chair at the sink, helping my mom clean up after dinner. And it's been my job at home ever since. When I get married and have kids, they will be helping out around the house. The end.
Furthermore, the whole "home care sheet"...absurd. It's like the Point System at Brooks College...you have to get so many points in a certain amount of time or you're put on probation and risk being kicked out of the College. It's really annoying. It's like forced participation in residence hall events. I really think that things could be done to make hall events more appealing before resorting to this point system.
For example, I listen to music when I clean. In high school, when I was home alone, I turned on music really loud and sang obnoxiously while I vacuumed the whole house (it was okay, though...we have no neighbors to complain). When I was a kid, I invited my best friend over to help me rearrange the furniture in my room, because she likes to do that sort of thing, while I would go through and throw out stuff that I never used or didn't want anymore. I would do the same thing for her at her house -- we would have cleaning contests of her room to see who could get their half of the room cleaned the best and the fastest, judged by her mom. We made cleaning fun, and it all got done in a decent amount of time.
And we didn't have to resort to stickers or points.
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