I graduated from high school in Venezuela, and my first job was at McDonald’s as a college freshman at UT Austin. The (large, gruff, black) guy working the grill saw me standing there and said, “Go make up some mop water”. I said, “Okay, how?” He looked incredulous and said, “Your mama never taught you how to make up mop water?” I said the worst thing I could have: “No, the maid always did it...”
Mothers who get their kids educated to get into UT Austin are to be commended. We exalt these people who make fun of parents but why?
The waitresses at the restaurant in which I worked as a teen taught me how to wash windows, how to clear tables peacefully and to keep my voice down. My mother taught me to respect them so I would learn
None of them would dare tell me my mother hadn’t done her job. That’s just intimidation and ugliness. It’s unnecessary
We had household help. We were taught to respect them. But they respected us.
Here what Melania said
“first and foremost, parents’ responsibility to raise their children to be moral, charitable, and to have love of country.”
Nothing about cleaning the house and not exclusively parents just first and foremost
And, BTW, what Melania said can be found in biblical teaching. St Pope John Paul II found it and repeated it
Here’s the compendium
It is within the family where children are raised and formed as human beings. The parental role in this human formation is governed by love, a love which places itself “at the service of children to draw forth from them (”e-ducere”) the best that is in them” and which “finds its fullest expression precisely in the task of educating.” (Compendium, No. 239) The family is the “first school”