What would you do if you have a very lazy brother?

Philippines
April 25, 2013 5:12am CST
I don't know what to do to motivate my lazy brother. He does not want to study, he does not want to work, he just wants to play all day. His butt does not ache sitting for online games. Our parents are already old, and I always tell him what will happen to him if he gets old, actually he is already 23, at his age he should have already started his own life or family. Tell me ways on what to do if you are on my shoes. Is there a hope still for a lazy brother? He just gets allowance from parents. I have my family on my own to support, I can't just sit down and do nothing for him to improve, tell me what else to do.
10 responses
@dagami (1158)
• Rome, Italy
25 Apr 13
the fact that he still gets an allowance from your parents and somebody else is paying for his bills and other expenses will not motivate him to work. he is pampered that is why he is lazy. talk to your parents and ask them to stop giving him money. ask them to cut the internet connection too. if this isn't possible, remove a part from the computer so it will not boot. tell your parents about this and ask them not to give in to his demands to have it repaired. some people get hooked to games and this is hard to stop. staying at home without doing anything will bore him and eventually he will go out and look for something to do outside. all his friends will be at work so they cannot entertain him and soon he will come to realise that he too will need to do something with his life.
• Philippines
26 Apr 13
That is what my husband is telling me, but I don't know if I can do it to be his enemy. I really like to convert his attention by giving him some tasks so that at least his time will be used purposely on important matters. Thanks for sharing!
25 Apr 13
For me, if I have a Lazy Brother, I will make him realize that being lazy is bad. I will make him realize that being productive everyday will bring him good fortune and money. I'll always tell him that studying will make his future better. How can he sustain his needs/ their family needs if he won't work to earn a living.
• Philippines
26 Apr 13
Hi Manuel, we already told him that to study is better, but he enrolled twice and does not continue and drop the subjects, I don't know what else to do, he is just wasting money too.
@doggyhouz (548)
• United States
3 Mar 14
Maybe it is probably better to approach it with some tough love. Force him to explore other options where he find interest in, besides gaming. Some people may take away to grow up and figure out what they are interest in becoming. Purchase a book and give it to him that you may believe he has interests in. This may help him a lot.
@bigearner (131)
• India
25 Apr 13
I will make him engaged in work every time so that he do not get time for rest and if also he do not come out of his laziness then there is nothing i can do.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
26 Apr 13
Stop the allowance. Forfeit all the privileges he gets. That should make him get out and find ways how to earn back what has been taken from him. He should be independent by now.
25 Apr 13
its fact since was lazy when i was younger my brothers tried lot to motivate me to erase my laziness ... they plan me to send to different country for studies .. once i got out from my home i got my laziness out
@savypat (20216)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Of course each culture has it's own rules, but at 23 isn't it time for him to take over his own life? A good way to urge his to grow up is to ignore him, after all he is the one that has to live with his choices. You have your own family, which should be your main focus. This doesn't mean you can't keep an eye on him in case he gets in real trouble. In my family we each had pride and couldn't wait to take our lives into our own hands. Maybe we had to much pride and had to follow a harder road then if we would have asked for help from family members. Just remember we all see the mistakes we make when we look back on out choices
@jiiiiin (586)
• Philippines
25 Apr 13
I have a brother with the same laziness. He's 13 and its been two years since the last time he went to school. Now he's just always facing our laptop. I hope he'll change very soon because I am very sick with his laziness.
@Kmz059 (652)
• Philippines
25 Apr 13
We have the same brother, he is 22 and he stopped studying because he is addicted to online games, he even doesn't want to work. As his punishment my mother didn't not give him an allowance for he able to know to how hard to work and how hard to have no money.
• India
25 Apr 13
show your love to him your dedication to him instead of anger use the weapon of love and nobody can say no to love because when sometimes we forget that anger just destroys and do nothing else don't worry show him love too much and he will improve.