Would you tell your prince or princess to work?

[Anonymous]

OP you really seem to have a narrow life. People struggle with all sorts of mental health and physical health issues. I have a child who looks perfectly healthy who has serious health issues and already had something precancerous removed. MYOB and focus on your own children.

[Anonymous]

Would you tell you noisy neighbor to MYOB?

[Anonymous]

Stay in your own lane.

Mind your own business.

Stop judging others.

Comparison is the theif of joy.

How about counting your own blessings.

[Anonymous]

This is discussed multiple times a year on DCUM.
1. There are cultural and socio-economic factors at play.
2. There is a wide range of normal.


My son is 18 and hasn't looked for a real job yet (he's done dog walking and dog boarding for neighbors). None of his friends have jobs.

Neither my husband nor I had jobs until our TAs in grad school or interning in medical school. None of our relatives and very few of our friends had jobs at those ages either.

So instead of "wondering" (criticizing), just relax. There are many families where this is normal. The presence and absence of low-level jobs has no bearing on future success.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because the adult children don't leave the house, it doesn't mean they aren't working.

My DD (18) works from home. She's an artist who does commissions. She probably looks like she doesn't work to our nosy neighbors.

My DS (21) had an internship this summer where he worked from home 99% of the time. And probably 75% of that time he was working from home, he was working poolside or at our beach house.

MYOB

My 18 year old dd is friends with that girl, and when she came over I asked her, if she works and if her brother works she said no.

[Anonymous]

wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

oh haha op - you think you telling your daughter to pick up because the maid is coming over makes you normal?

oh, sweet lord.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

oh haha op - you think you telling your daughter to pick up because the maid is coming over makes you normal?

oh, sweet lord.

people don't do that anymore?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

They may have family money or trust funds. They may never have to work a day in their lives. It's none of your business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

oh haha op - you think you telling your daughter to pick up because the maid is coming over makes you normal?

oh, sweet lord.

people don't do that anymore?

heh, regular people don't have a maid. regular people don't have their kids pick up because the maid is coming - they clean their rooms, and the other rooms, because that's how the house gets cleaned.

i mean, good for you for having your kids help - but i don't think there's any great virtue to picking up your room before the maid comes, versus just having a cleaner who does it themselves, which is what i assume is happening in your neighbor's house? like, let me just say that no kid is getting into college with an essay about how they had to pick up their room before the maid came, while the other kid down the street did not have to pick up their room before the maid comes.

[Anonymous]

The way that privileged people feel free to judge others is always amazing to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wait are you calling them prince and princess because they are super rich and don't have to work?

also for all you know, as others said, they are working. or doing something else that is equally none of your business.

Because they don't work and they don't seem to help out around the house, she was laughing when I told my dd to clean her room because the maid was coming over.
I don't think they are "super rich," we are middle class our homes are value are around 850k so are not super rich, are middle class.

I would have laughed because that seems like such a typical thing. Not just for young adults, but for everyone who has a maid (we don't). They pick up so the house can be cleaned by others. It's normal for that population, and that makes it gently amusing. To me, at any rate. It's not a criticism. We have the version where everyone has to pick up because I decided that we had time to clean the house together.

So you're just being insulting to this family because you felt judged. I think you're reading this entirely wrong.

[Anonymous]

Lots of UMC and wealthy kids only do academics, extracurricular and internships until they graduate college and get a professional job. They don't have random jobs on their priority list.

[Anonymous]

Same goes for house chores, not required by parents as kids are supposed to do productive things or relax.