Who Should be More Helpful, a Son or a Daughter?

I think that how helpfull a child would be doesn't depend on the child's gender but on how will the family raise their children. If parents learn them to be helpfull at home they'll be helpfull if they only spoil them neither girls nor boys would be helpfull at home...

When I was growing up I was the only one who would help my mom with everything. I would go with her to the market and do the dishes and the washing. I have 2 sisters who were like princesses and could not be bothered with the household chores.

i think gender should have nothing to do at all with sharing the household chores in the family... regardless whether you are a male or female, you still have to help out... especially if both wife and hubby are working full-time like what is happening most in today's society to meet the financial needs... take care and have a nice day...

Hi, I think son and daughter are both helpful to a family,sometimes,we can't choose our sisters or brothers,so,we must accept the gifts that god arranged without selecting!!Thanks!

In household chores female siblings are more helpful. Whatever we tell or whatever accept always girld child will be doing the houseworks. That is what is our culture. Male siblings are always there to earn for the house and they are always demanding and controlling so that is what is the policy in our country from long long ago..So I think that can never be changed..

neh i dont think so. children should be helpful towards their parents regardless of gender. we should all be filial to our parents as they are the ones who give us life. personally , i always wash my dishes after i eat finish and clean my own things to lessen my parents' chores. helpful person i am , issnt it?

I think son or daughter is the same. In my place, every couple want to have son. They want son because can keep their descent. Because in here, every child has their father surname, so if they have son, the surname will exist until their grandchild. Me myself doesn't matter which I will get. Because son and daughter is the same. They have their equal rigts now. We can find that man can do housework and office work, also woman can do the same thing, house and office work. Keep post Happy myLotting...

For me, Yes it is true that girls more help parent to do the cleaning, for boys sometimes will do, not every time, they are busy work, For girls, they are more help their parent,(specially the women after married or after have the baby), they are more knowing how hard the parent get them grow up.

Both of them need to help out. Why should only one of them help? That wouldn't be fair and wouldn't be good for the other child to be so lazy. It's important to learn how to take care of yourself.

I dont think it should be about the gender of what child should help around the house. If your part of the family then you should help do things around the house as well as the other. I have 2 boys and my oldest boy hes 2 yrs old and he likes helping weather it be cooking or cleaning or building something or helping out with his little brother thats 9 months old. So i dont think it should be about gender.No i dont think its fair but some people do seem to think that the "girls" should do house work and the boys should. Well like i said my oldest he does things because he wants to i dont expect him to but he does it cause he thinks its fun.

Actually, I would expect both genders to help out more. One gender doesn't overrule the other. If there's something that needs to be done, both should help out. I guess it just depends on the culture, but in my culture, both genders help out. My daughter and my nephew helps out anyone who need it.

There is mostly gender bias in this. Gals are supposed to do the household chores. I know guys who help their moms and their wives and i am lucky that people like them exist still. My mom asks me to do it just because I am the big sister.

i really don't think gender matters-i have a partner that works hard outside of the home as well as in the home-he does dishes floors laundry garbage vacumming-everything i do and my 2 boys grew up seeing this and they learned from him-my 20 year old and 26 year old sons also do laundry cooking cleaning dishes etc-i am very proud of my 3 men!!

There are just as many household chores that boys can do as girls. I did have my daughter help more in the kitchen than my son. I also would have him help more outside than I would expect her to. However, I would have them both help with laundry and vacuuming, etc. I am sure a lot of households have children equally help in all areas. You never know when your son or daughter is going to live alone and these skills could come in very handy!

My boys have always been taught the same things their sisters were taught. I completely disagree with labeling jobs and chores by gender. It's not fair to raise girls to be maids and boys to be lazy.

In the country where i from, girls are always helping the mother in cleaning the house and other households chores and boys are going to help the father in the farm or helping the father in fixing inside the house. Sometimes, boys are be trained in households so they can help too. So it's only depends on the parents how they trained thier kids.

i definitely don't think the gender of a child should influence whether or not they help out with chores or have more or less responsibility. i know for some cultures that is the way, but in our family it is not. my husband actually does all of the cooking- he likes to do it and has always liked to do it. he just kindof assumed that role before we were even married. we have two boys- 1 and 3- and my 3-year old helps out with certain chores. he loves to help "fold" the laundry with me and dust and things like that. granted, he really doesn't help much yet, but he wants to. i think every child should be given responsibilities- they teach a child so much. my husband helps out with dishes or cleaning if need be. most of the time it is me doing it, but that is mainly because i am home all day with the kids. if i need him to pitch in and help me out he has no problem doing so, and i think that sets a great example for our children. i have seen guys that think it is the woman's job to do all the cooking, all the cleaning, all the child-rearing, etc. i think that is just plain selfish and inconsiderate. it is one thing to want to do these things because you want to be a good wife/mother, but to have it be expected of you all the time is not fair.

In my household, both my sons and my daughter are expected to help out. There is no favortism as to gender. I do, however; expect more out of my oldest child because I feel that he needs to set the example for those that look up to him. Also, with more beig expected from him, he gets more privledges. It works out fairly even in the end.

In my opinion, both are the same. No matter you are females or males, if they are obedience to their parents, no matter you give how many tasks to them they will complete it in sometimes. Most of us will think that daughters is more helpful than son, because son is very lazy than daughter, and daughter is same gender to her mother, her father has to work for the family, so that, the son will follow as his father and do not do any household chores. On the other way, all the household chores can also depend on son or daughter interesting to do it, for example: Son almost like to wiping the floor or sweeping the floor, but for daughters they like clean the windows and wash dishes. That's all i want to share, thank you.

Personally when I was a child 10-16 I had the bulk of the chores as my sister was taking college classes in high school + Denver Police Explorer+ track. And even before all that I had the bulk of chores. I think that in general the male should be required to do more so Strength involving chores whereas the females should be doing things like cleaning cooking etc. and maybe every now and again switch the two out for a week.