Tolong Buat Sendiri Ye

I have this title for a year already in my draft :) but fail to write its body  ) until I read one of  simple divine's latest posts (that why when you have the idea untuk merepek :), you just have to write it there and then, dari phone pun jadilah, kat dalam toilet ke masa dalam kereta ke hehe or else the next day when I look at the tittle, I just dont know what I could possible write about it.

Where am I? Oh ye, you know how kids are so easy nowadays  especially those with maid at home. They are mostly doing nothing :). The only duty required of them is going to school. 

Remember our days? We had to help our mums washing clothes or  plates. Dulu dulu masa kecil, tak ada sink kat rumah I, balik sekolah pinggan yang berlonggok I kena basuh, duduk mencangkung with big basin and pakai air dari getah. I also had to sweep the floor daily - termasuk yang dekat halaman yang ada banyak ranting and daun kering - kena sapu dengan penyapu lidi, - nasib baik I tak perlu kena masak or basuh baju. Normally my mum dah masakkan siap siap sebelum pergi meniaga. Basuh baju dengan tangan pun rasanya tak pernah buat kot.

Yang tu household chores. Masa weekend, I also had to iron my own cloth dengan iron arang yang berat tu and I got to wash my own shoes. I selalu malas :) so tak payah lah gosok baju heheh. Kasut pun basuh tipu or ala kadar - kalau nasib baik, kapur ja kekekek. Maybe tak lah heavy sangat as compared to some of you (ada ke?:)) yang kena masak or basuh baju or jaga adik adik kecik.

Today's kids mana ada buat semua ni kan? - kalau tak sekolah, main and tengok TV, suruh tutup TV, main lagi  :D. Kalau yang sekolah, understandable lah kan, penat pagi petang. Malam ada  daily revision. But on weekend, apart from  a few hours of revision or other activities (swimming etc),the rest of the day, they are doing nothing - of course my living proof is ER MA YUM :).

So, I was a bit worry and still am, if  I have pampered my children too much.  I do ask them to take in some responsibilities. Since Erdina started standard 1, last year, I have made it compulsory for her to wash her own shoes. Kalau tak basuh, you boleh pakai kasut spare, esok kasut spare pun kotor kalau you tak basuh jugak, you pakai jalah kasut hitam :). I have instructed my maid, dont wash that shoes for Dina, - never, (oh I am cruel ok, ada sekali I biar dia pakai kasut lembab and sekali lagi I let her pakai kasut kotor sebab dia saja tak basuh kasut (or basuh lambat- Sunday petang baru nak basuh) but she learned her lesson :) - sebab dah rajin basuh kasut and tak perlu diingatkan lagi nowadays)

But itu sangat lah kecilkan berbanding masa kita (ke you all kecik kecik ada maid kat rumah gak?:)). Apart from shoes, I constantly have to remind Erdina, to hang her own cloth back from school, put dirty clothes in the laundry basket, make her own bed, bring her own plate to sink and other simple things.Yet maybe some of these tasks have been forgotten sebab Jenny is around.

I have seen their true colours when Ana ran back for good, my goodness, baju campak sana sini, kain sekolah sepuk tak hang heheh, you all nak suruh Ummi kutip semua tu? cantiknya mukaaaa :D.  

Anyway, it is certainly not an easy task to remind them all the time, and that is why sometime, I nag :D. How about you dear semua? what task you delegate to your kids ye?

ps: 

Salah satu chores yang memang wajib the girls do bila maid takda is bringing garbage bags ke tong sampah luar. Tu memang tugas yang selalu kena suruh when there was no maid :) (sebab ummi nak curi tulang).


ps2: 

tolong teka lagi ye post dibawah sana:)