A father was shocked when he caught his 12-year-old son yelling at his hardworking mom for not doing his laundry. The boy had asked his mom how hard it was to clean his clothes. The father, who often helped with household chores, felt terrible for his wife and decided to teach his son a valuable lesson.
The father took his son to the laundry room and taught him how to sort clothes and operate the machines. He then put his son in charge of doing the laundry, as well as preparing breakfast and lunch for himself and his brother. The boy was shocked and thought it was unfair, especially during spring break.
The father asked his son if he thought doing household chores was a full-time job. When the boy replied yes, the father pointed out that both he and his mother had full-time jobs and still managed to do everything that his son was complaining about.
The boy didn’t take the lesson well and called his grandmother, complaining about the chores he had to do. The grandmother called the father, saying he was being cruel to her “poor baby.” However, the father stood firm, asking his mother if she would have tolerated him yelling at her for not doing his laundry when he was a child.
The grandmother realized that she had punished her son more harshly when he was a child, and she told the 12-year-old boy that he couldn’t live with her over spring break. The father felt reassured that he had made the right decision, but he couldn’t help but wonder if he had been too harsh on his son.
He asked people on the internet for their opinions, and they reassured him that he had done nothing wrong. One user commented, “I think you have a deeper issue that you need to work on with your son… They both need to learn that women are partners, not maids, and that they need to pull their weight.”
