All you parents out there who want their kids to grow up with a strong work ethic, why aren’t you making them do chores?

I was a cheerleader and an athlete my whole high school career and I also worked a part time job, while also maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Whenever I came home, I did the laundry, cleaned the house, all the cooking, the whole nine yards. I had to do this because my mother was a single parent and she worked a 60 hour job as a pharmacist. On top of that she owned her own business and she worked a lot there too. All of my chores and responsibilities were in addition to her work. <br><br>Fast forward to now, I’m an adult and I see so many parents making excuses about why they don’t make their kids do chores. Like, what else are they going to do with their time? Sit down and play fortnite for three hours while you cook their food and clean their room and wash their clothes and scrub the floors and vacuum and do a million other things? I swear to god, I never saw a single kid do a single chore growing up unless it was to do something that benefited them in some way. <br><br>Now when these kids grow up, they’re going to be completely incapable of doing even the smallest things. I cannot stress this enough. I’ve seen it. If kids aren’t taught how to do things then they’re just going to continue to rely on other people to do those things for them. If you don’t teach your kids how to do things like laundry or how to cook or how to clean, you are completely and utterly failing them as a parent. What are you going to do when they go off to college? Follow them there and cook their food and clean their dorm and do everything else for them? No, you need to teach them how to function as an adult. People that don’t know how to function as adults are a waste of space.