It is very true that the training we give to children in their infant age stays with them as they grow up, just as the Bible stated in the book of Proverbs. These disciplines, such as restricting them from doing certain things and pushing them to do others, may pose difficulties for them at the time, but when they grow up, they’ll see the benefit of those disciplines.
I'm not left out. During my childhood days, I had some restrictions and pushes that appeared as punishment to me back then, but now, the character and lifestyle I inherited have been very helpful in my life today.
One of those pieces of guidance or pushes was the washing of dishes.
Pixabay When I was a child among my siblings, we shared the responsibility of washing dishes. Our home wasn’t the type where kitchen duties were meant for just the girls. My dad made sure to enforce the law that the boys in the house must also help out with kitchen duties, especially washing dishes, and I hated that duty very much. Whenever it got to my turn, I would always look for means to dodge it, and my mum, dad, and elder siblings would always beat me for that.
Whenever it was my turn to wash dishes, I would pile them up and spend one hour staring at them before finally summoning the courage to wash them.
But now, the habit I hated when I was young is what I do every day with ease, and I do it quickly too. In my house, I wash the dishes immediately after cooking or eating. The sight of dirty dishes irritates me because they attract little flies into the house. Maybe one of the reasons I don’t have a lot of dishes is because I don’t want to get tired of washing them. I have just a few, and I love to keep them neat always.
Anytime I travel to the village, I’m always the chief in charge of punishing the nephews and nieces in the house who accumulate dishes before washing them. The sight irritates me a lot, so I always shout at them to go and wash those dishes, of course with a cane in my hand to give them the correct prompting they need.
When I have my own family with children, I just know that all my children are going to adopt the habit. Their mom may be lazy in teaching them, but I will enforce it myself. Aside from this habit, they're going to be followed up in other Lifestyles whether they see them as punishment or not. If we don't enforce some things in the life of Children, they'll end up being spoiled children.
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