This kid looks about 14 I think. He was outside at 8am cleaning about 5-6 inches of snow off the family car, and still doing so when it started to snow again. Either way the wind was blowing a lot also, and it was biting.
Eventually he went in again, but now he’s back out to finish the car, and is currently shovelling snow off the drive.
(You may wonder why I’m looking but we have a big front room window and he’s literally right opposite, so it’s hard not to notice.)
He’s a lovely boy, and seems very obliging, but it’s an horrendous task, and besides this, he is often outside sweeping...
The dad seems to be very particular about his house frontage, and last summer he was mowing the lawn at 8:30 every fricking Sunday morning, and watered his lawn regularly. His was the only garden that had green grass. He often spent time sucking up leaves, and had his son helping, sometimes on his own with this weird broom thing, cleaning moss out from between the bricks on the drive.
I never see the girl being asked to do that, although who knows what chores she does indoors.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for children doing chores, but surely within reason...
I wouldn’t make my child do that in the snow... AIBU to feel this way? If I was physically fit to help, and it wouldn’t aggravate his parents, I’d go and help him.
I don’t know, maybe he likes it? But I can’t see a smile and he’s certainly not building a snowman. I just think let kids have fun in the snow ffs...