I am a girl, a female and with that comes many...responsibilities that guys aren't expected to do. In my family everybody is expected to do chores to pull their weight and help the family. I remember as a little girl, I was expected to vacuum the living room, do the dishes, clean the bathrooms, dust and clean the TV set. The truth was that I liked cleaning, I was a bit of a clean freak.
Every month I was given two dollars for doing the chores. My older brother by a year was also expected to help with the chores, but he never cleaned the bathrooms or helped out as much as I did. Every month, my mom gave him twenty dollars-compared to my two dollars. When I found out, I was so mad and started crying- because the situation was so unfair. My mom to appeased me, gave me two more dollars. So I had four dollars compared to my brother's twenty dollars. That just made me more mad and depress. It was at that moment that I hated doing household chores. If I wasn't given the same or better reward, than I would not do the chores which continued to my senior year in high school.
I rarely did any house hold chores, because I was still pissed off at the unfair treatment between my brother and me, (and this happened when I was 9-12 years old). But I'm getting older and so are my parents. Most of my other siblings have left, except for my baby brother, my disable sister, and the older brother I mentioned above. My brother still doesn't really help around the house, and my parents are okay with that-because he's a male. When I go back home during the holidays and summer, I'm going to try to help out more and get my two brothers to help-which I know will be a challenge. I want to ease my parents' burden since they're getting older, and they deserve it with all the years taking care of my siblings and me. I'm not doing them because as a female its my job, but because they're my parents and I want to help them.
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