SEC14 WK:#3: 🤷My Perception About House Chores

What does House Chores mean and what is your perception about it (do you enjoy it or not, tell us)

Household work is everything related to activities at home, whether cleaning the house, changing the layout of the furniture and other routines such as washing clothes, cooking daily necessities and even educating and caring for children in completing their duties as children.

Housework can be narrated in various contexts, I and our small family (wife and two children) have completed our respective responsibilities well, resulting in a harmonious and happy life. Complementing each other is an important element in married life so this becomes a real dynamic of life if lived and enjoyed with joy.

I enjoy every activity at home so that everything I do has a positive impact on my household life, another routine that I do is giving food to some of my pet chickens, I enjoy this situation and on the other hand, it can provide happiness and economic income family.

^{Giving Chicken Food and Watering Flowers}

What is included in the house chores that is done in your house

Apart from the housework that I mentioned above, as a couple who is quite busy, my wife goes to the office early, she has left the house to work since 6.30 in the morning, the housework that I have to do is bathing my two children, and dressing them. school uniform for the first child who has just started school (primary school grade 1).

I even have to feed him breakfast and fry his favorite omelet. I enjoy it as a life process and the life I live before leaving for the office is to ensure that my two children get their needs from early in the morning.

^{Accompanying my son to the Integrated Service Post}

Apart from that, I also regularly accompany my second child who is 4.5 years old to the Integrated Service Post in the Village. There, health workers checked his physical and psychological development. I do it with great pleasure every month before leaving for the office

Which of them do you enjoy doing and how do you do them

Even though I work from Monday to Friday, every morning I always do housework such as making sure the two children get breakfast that has sufficient nutritional value until noon, bathing them and taking them to school. I carry out this routine as a father's responsibility because his mother is also a worker. So I really enjoy it, even though sometimes there is a lot of work that has to be done at the office, but family is the main priority without putting aside my responsibilities as a Government Employee.

I even enjoy scrubbing my daughter's school uniform, maybe some people are very against this, but it's different for me. I consider complementarity in taking care of the household as a responsibility for a better family future.

Why is house chores so important to you and the family

Housework not only has a central role in investing in the family, children and wives will be comfortable and feel cared for. I don't use the services of a housemaid to help us live, but I only use laundry services to lighten our family's work.

It is unimaginable how a family would live without complementing each other, everything is done by household assistants, and family interaction will be very lacking and will eliminate the values of social interaction later.

In principle, through household activities a character will be built for us to complement and complement each other and there will be intense communication at all times between me, my wife and my children. Many cases occur due to parents being busy without having much time for family, children not having much interaction and parents only as a means of meeting daily needs, not psychological needs.

Your advice to kids about house chores

My wife and I continue to educate my two children to have their own responsibilities according to their capacity, perhaps by doing the homework given at school as an effort that must be completed, then tidying up their toys, making their bed and taking advantage of the time to play, study and rest. well.

I emphasize responsibility because this is the initial foundation for them from an early age so that they become responsible, ethical individuals and have social values embedded in their lives, both in the family, school and surrounding environment.

Indonesia, December 17, 2023

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