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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the housekeeper PP:  I have relatives in a different country where the culture is for the wealthy to never have to lift a finger.  I totally get wanting to reduce your chore time and to keep time for things you want to do. A housekeeper can be a big part of that. But just be conscious of what you are modeling for your kids. I look at my cousins children and I don’t want my kids to turn out like them.  Pick a couple of things you want the family to be responsible for and give your kids a part in making the family work.

Our monthly expenses are lower than yours.  So you might dismiss me as hopelessly middle class. But just offering you a different perspective. [/quote]

We grew up in Mexico with a cook, housekeeper nanny,  and gardener. We have a housekeeper here as well along with house cleaners. This is actually very normal all over Latin America. I'll leave to the morally superior toilet cleaning and grout scrubbing to you Americans. My children won't need to clean a toilet if they don't want to when they have their own families. Our parents afforded us the best education money could buy.  The same is being given to our kids. No need to do menial tasks.

With all due respect I just don't think you can grasp how peiple.avove your social class live. [/quote]

With all due respect....lots of us can afford to hire help around the house and will make sure that the children have an outstanding academic education.  But holy helplessness, ....they will also know how to pump gas, change lightbulbs, fix a flat, light a fire, clean a toilet, wash a dish, boil an egg, etc, etc.  Yes they can hire help  but why do you want needy helpless ignorant kids?  Give them some life skills.

It's not a question of morality.  I don't want them to be dependent on help because they have to be.[/quote]

Maybe these are my Puritanical American roots showing, but I think scrubbing toilets IS a question of morality.  Barring some disability that would prevent them from doing so themselves, I want to teach my kids that it is their responsibility to clean up their own shit.  Literally.[/quote]

I really want to know what is going on with some of you and your toilets.  I don’t do the toilets, that is DH’s chore, but from what I recall it is probably one of the easiest cleaning tasks.  Actually modern cleaning is pretty easy, it is organizing and decluttering that is hard.[/quote]

+1. I don’t mind cleaning at all either. I get PP’s point but she sounds gross and filthy.[/quote]

Why, because I used the word “shit”?  I don’t know where your family defecates, but mine does it in the toilet.  If you’ve never seen a mark on the inside of the bowl, you’re lucky... or more likely lying 🤥. But yes, cleaning the toilet is easy, which is why I have taught my kids to just clean it when it needs cleaning instead of expecting someone else to do it for you.[/quote]

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