A clip shared to the TikTok account @shopping666, a small boy can be seen hopping out of his double bed at the sound of his 6am alarm, before turning on his electric fire, picking out his clothes and steam cleaning them.
The youngster then shakes off the dust from his clothes and gets dressed, before brushing his teeth and washing his face.
The little boy then moves into the kitchen and can be seen hard boiling some eggs and blending some grains, before sitting down to eat breakfast.
He then washes up his bowl and tea cup, before getting on with more chores, including cleaning the toilet and shower, and washing clothes and vacuuming the carpet.
Well I don’t know what to think about this…I’m all for children being a bit self sufficient, but at 6 years old?
What annoyed me was that it mentioned in the article that his mother was “reclining on the sofa” and he brought her over a foot spa!! …err no, little one, get yourself off to school and your mother can bathe her own feet!
Boiling eggs, I hope he was being supervised, he shouldn’t be doing that at that age…she needs an egg cracked over hers…that was my flesh speaking!..
If is true, then there is something very wrong here.
Where his his Mother or Father, and why are letting him handle saucepans of boiling water when he can barely see above the cooker?
I have no problem with him washing and dressing himself, as long as he washes properly and can reach taps, towels etc, but cooking and using a kettle - definitely No. He’ll be doing the ironing and driving the car next!
Poor kid.
I was chatting to my Sikh friend about this yesterday, and she said it was the same in her culture too. Its about learning responsibility and that nothing happens without some effort on your part. Her parents had a restaurant and a shop, and she said the first thing she held in her hands wasn’t a toy, it was a pricing gun! She now runs three shops and has a huge house on the coast and aims to retire very soon (she isn’t even 50 yet)
Well I think having to earn pocket money is right, but I’m hesitant to say its the best thing to do on a school day.
I had my two children do chores and things, but I always made breakfast & dinner for them, and made them do homework before watching tv or going out to play.
Weekends were more organised chore-wise and they had more jobs to do.
I know it is a harsh way to do it , but just look how independent this child already is !
What we should be thinking is " Do most humans make their children too reliant on their parents? "
I think Maree is right in this case, when she said…
But I do think a parents job is to teach their children how to look after themselves! We love and care for babies because they can’t look after themselves & that is what animals do with their young…but I think most animals do a better job of teaching their young look after themselves as soon as they can!
I agree that we do, yes. And then we let them leave home at 18 and wonder why they phone home all the time because they don’t know how to make food or use the washing machine!
You may remember a scheme , I think it was the YTS scheme, where government encouraged businesses to take on school leavers to teach them how to work for a living. The bank I worked for took a few !
One was exceptionally good & I gave her a reference for a job .
The others were nice kids but had no idea how to follow instructions. I asked one if he could make cups of tea for the rest of the team & he said " I don’t know how to" I took him to the kitchen & showed him how & he was so pleased to learn that he asked if he could do it on his own tomorrow.
Kids like learning how to do things , but if we don’t teach them they will become lazy and assume somebody else will do it!
A bit of subtle advertising there on their part. Gah! You can’t trust anything these days, eh? 
She now runs three shops and has a huge house on the coast and aims to retire very soon (she isn’t even 50 yet) 
I took him to the kitchen & showed him how & he was so pleased to learn that he asked if he could do it on his own tomorrow.