Why Students Shouldn't Have to Do Chores
You know what's really annoying? Chores. Ugh, I hate them so much! Every day after getting home from school, my parents are always nagging me to clean my room, help with the dishes, take out the trash, and do all these other boring tasks around the house. It's SO unfair!
I already have to spend like 8 hours a day at school. Isn't that enough work for a kid? By the time I get home, I'm exhausted from concentrating all day in class, dealing with teachers yelling at me, and trying to not fall asleep during the endless lectures. The last thing I want is more work piled onto me. Homework is bad enough - now I have housework too?
My parents are always saying stuff like \"We all have to pitch in and do our part around the house.\" But hello, I'm a kid! Being a student is already my full-time job. I don't get paid for it either. The least they could do is hire a maid or something to take care of the cleaning and chores. That's what rich families do, and we should be rich with how much my education costs!
Doing chores is such a waste of my precious free time too. After being stuck at school all day, I just want to relax, play video
games, watch YouTube, and hang out with my friends. Those are the good things that make being a kid actually fun and enjoyable. Chores just get in the way of me being able to unwind and decompress from academic stress.
And let's be real - kids are just terrible at doing chores properly anyway. We always half-ass it and do a sloppy, rushed job because we hate it so much. So what's even the point? It's not like our chores actually help much. We just create more work for our parents having to re-do and fix the stuff we didn't do right.
My friend Marcus is so lucky. His parents baby him and do everything for him. They clean up after his messes, do his laundry, make his bed - the whole nine yards. He doesn't lift a finger around the house. Just does his homework and that's it. He has it made! Why can't my parents be that cool?
Instead, I get treated like a servant in my own home. \"Jamie, take out the trash!\" \"Jamie, load the dishwasher!\" \"Jamie, clean your pigsty of a room!\" It never ends. I feel like they think I'm just free child labor or something. I'm not a maid - I'm a middle schooler!
Chores are also a recipe for conflict between me and my parents. We fight constantly about me not doing them well
enough or quickly enough. I have gotten screamed at more times than I can count for not matching the ridiculous standards my parents set for something as stupid as making my bed or sweeping the floor. Hello, I'm only 13! Cut me some slack. They'll yell stuff like \"This bedroom doesn't look clean at all! Go redo it right now!\" And it's like, what do you want from me? I made an effort! That should count for something, right? But noooo, nothing is ever good enough for them when it comes to chores. It's a never-ending cycle of arguing, crying, and me getting punished over dumb household tasks. Chores just create so much unnecessary drama.
My parents always threaten that if I keep screwing up chores, they'll start taking away my video games or groundingme. That's so messed up! Those are my two favorite things in life and they're holding them hostage just to get me to clean my room and stuff. It's basically psychological torture at this point. If they did take my games and internet away, my social life would be ruined too. That's how I keep in touch with all my friends from school. I'd be completely isolated and miserable just because I'm a bad dishwasher loader or something. That's an overreaction if you ask me.
Speaking of friends, none of them have to do super intense chores like I do. Maybe they'll have to tidy up here and there, but nothing too crazy. My friend group pretty much all agrees that it's bull that kids like us still get stuck with chores in this modern age. Isn't that what technology is for - to make our lives easier so we don't have to worry about manual labor and housework? In the future, robots and AI will probably be doing all our chores for us. People will look back and be like \"Can you believe kids in the 2020s had to waste their time washing dishes and making beds? How primitive!\" We're living in the digital era now - we shouldn't be stuck in the past doing archaic sanitizing rituals meant for peasant-level humans.
I bet celebrities and rich people's kids never have to worry about taking out the trash or scrubbing toilets. Those
millionaires can afford to hire staff to handle all that grunt work. Their kids probably just lounge around all day without a care in the world. That's the life I want! No chores, no responsibilities - just pure relaxation and fun.
Maybe if I start making millions from being a YouTuber or an influencer, then I can hire my very own maid. That'll show my parents! Fine, if they insist on making me do chores now, I'll
make sure to become super successful as an adult just so I can pay someone else to do them instead. Take that, authority! But yeah, that's my main point - kids shouldn't have to do any chores. We're students first and foremost. All our time and energy should go into studies, not scrubbing and cleaning up after ourselves. We're too young to be burdened with that level of responsibility around the house. Let us be carefree kids while we still can.
Our parents need to respect that we're still developing and just let us live a little, you know? Stop heaping domestic duties on top of everything else we're juggling. School and getting good grades should be our number one priorities, not making sure the kitchen is spotless or whatever.
Cut us some slack - we're only kids once! Soon enough we'll be jaded, responsibility-laden adults just like you. So let us enjoy this fleeting era of childhood freedom for as long as we can. Don't rob us of our innocence by forcing us to take on the mundane tasks and drudgeries of traditional homemaking and housework. As the saying goes, kids should be kids. We'll clean up our acts and homes eventually, but not today. Today, I'm playing video games!
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