This for a lot of things. Problem you encounter here tho is social peer pressure to avoid anachronism.
"Ugh your parents are so old fashioned"
My kids don't believe me when I tell them they have it easy half arsed lazily cleaning their rooms, when at 12, I was cleaning stables, field picking, gardening and taking the five mile walk to school alone. I did my year in cadets and attempted service (medical discharge apparently being near blind in an eye without glasses is a no no, cant wear contacts) Not for pocket money. That was duty. To earn my place in the house.
Pocket money was 50p at the car boot. If I wanted something bigger it was birthday/Christmas money or save up.
Their natural response was to assume I was lying just to guilt them, until they spoke to grandad.
And now I'm left sitting here thinking my dad had it harder. He was a coal mine worker at 12. So I'm grateful all I did was shovel shit and march around.
But as said, my kids don't appreciate their lack of effort, purely because any attempt to apply honing pressure is met with an overwhelming social peer pressure to undo it all. "But Kevin and Stacy and Alex and Mark don't do that, so I shouldn't have to!"
This for a lot of things. Problem you encounter here tho is social peer pressure to avoid anachronism.
"Ugh your parents are so old fashioned"
My kids don't believe me when I tell them they have it easy half arsed lazily cleaning their rooms, when at 12, I was cleaning stables, field picking, gardening and taking the five mile walk to school alone. I did my year in cadets and attempted service (medical discharge apparently being near blind in an eye without glasses is a no no, cant wear contacts) Not for pocket money. That was duty. To earn my place in the house.
Pocket money was 50p at the car boot. If I wanted something bigger it was birthday/Christmas money or save up.
Their natural response was to assume I was lying just to guilt them, until they spoke to grandad.
And now I'm left sitting here thinking my dad had it harder. He was a coal mine worker at 12. So I'm grateful all I did was shovel shit and march around.
But as said, my kids don't appreciate their lack of effort, purely because any attempt to apply honing pressure is met with an overwhelming social peer pressure to undo it all. "But Kevin and Stacy and Alex and Mark don't do that, so I shouldn't have to!"