You're right, they should grow up without responsibilities, and get to spend all of their time like rest of America's children, self-indulging in TV, video games, Little League, soccer, karate, etc etc etc. and having their parents serve them.
Today's children are turning out to be such winners, right?
You said it before I could! LOL
Our 13-year-old enjoys watching her younger siblings, especially her 4-year-old brother. She has a great rapport with small kids.
I remember a time when looking out for your own family was a common thing...guess now it makes for child abuse. It’s not like Jim Bob and Michelle are out partying. Besides, won’t these kids make better parents if they have had a little practice with kids? If nothing else, it teaches them patience, responsibility for someone other than themselves, and appreciation for the things parents do.
At the risk of getting called a crappy parent by other posters, my kids do the following: set and help clear the table, feed the animals, pick up toys, help put away clean clothes, help their dad with the yard work, help with the grocery shopping and putting away the groceries, fixing their own breakfasts and school lunches, and more I can’t remember. That’s while participating in extracurricular activities like altar serving, Boy and Girl Scouts, and religious ed classes, as well as staying on the A/B honor roll.
Meanwhile, my husband has a cousin who has only one child, and she is a spoiled brat. She does nothing for herself and is way overindulged. She had a cell phone at the age of 7. Thankfully I am not around her much or I wouldn’t be able to stand it. Not saying that only children are spoiled brats in general—just pointing out that having several children doesn’t make for a bad childhood for the others (I’ll refrain from using the gutter language).
My grandfather grew up in a family of 13, and they were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. I went to school with a kid who was one of fifteen children (yes, it was a Catholic school, LOL). A friend of my husband’s has ten children, all homeschooled. An acquaintance of mine from our local right-to-life group has 5 children, ages 7 and under, and she is one of the most selfless people I’ve come across in a long time (another homeschooler).
For a ‘conservative’ forum, a lot of people seem opposed to what other people do with their lives, especially seeing how the Duggars aren’t leeching off the taxpayers. A few of the Duggar kids have started their own businesses. Kind of the thing we should be championing, right?
Exactly. Today’s children call the shots. Leads to narcissism like the one we have in the White House who was pitied instead of parented.
On the other hand, he better hope she never divorces him. Although he CAN support the children now, he’d never be able to pay the “child” support should she, at some point decide that “he no longer fulfills my dreams.”