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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Yeah, that’s another reason I would never go the paid cleaning route. I consider teaching my kids discipline and self-reliance around doing their laundry, cleaning bathrooms, doing dishes, etc to be core parental duties. If they can’t do all that stuff on their own when they move out, I’ll consider myself a failure as a parent. Because they won’t be earning enough when they move out to pay someone to do it.
People liked the heck out of a post up-thread where a guy expected his girlfriend to do all the cleaning and cooking. How much of that is on the guy, and how much on his parents for not expecting him to do that work while he was growing up?
If kids carry their weight, by the time they’re 12 or so the amount of housework any individual in a household has to do is not onerous.
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Your point is a good one. One positive-ish thing about Covid for us was our cleaners hung up their mops for six or seven months and we used that time to teach the kids to clean. We also have very high expectations for keeping the house basically immaculate between cleanings, buuuuut you are correct. They would be learning more about cleaning if we didn't have the cleaners and if they end up being slobs it'll be our failing as parents.