my sister's sooo lazy

@greygoo (795)
Philippines
October 27, 2010 2:13am CST
i don't know what to do with my younger sister; she's insufferably lazy. i have to scold her just so she would help. the electricity bill arrived last monday (it's delivered here) and it got ripped by the dog. she was supposed to receive it personally because the mail box isn't safe from the dog, but she was too slow so the thing ended up being shredded into pieces. this is the second time that the dog enjoyed chewing the bill. the first time this happened, my mom had to pay some penalty for paying late. the due date was, of course, written on the sheet. *sigh* what do i do with her? how do i make her help without having to force her?
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@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
27 Oct 10
I think she will change if she need to live by herself. Now that you're around, she knows that you are going to do everything is needed. But when she lives alone (or with her husband) she will be forced to forget the laziness. So I don't think you need to do something special to her in order to change her laziness. Your personal example may be enough. And about the electricity bill, maybe you should buy a safer mailbox, so that the dog won't get (and chew ) the bills any more.
@greygoo (795)
• Philippines
28 Oct 10
oh she's only 13~ no husband, nope. hahaXD i hope she does change when she enters college and lives by herself. i'm just not sure if she's learned enough to be able to live alone. i don't know if she can cook, and i've seen her awful cleaning. *sigh* the mailbox is actually put in a supposedly safe location; the dog is just waaay too close to it. we have this black labrabor (black jack~) and he's HUGE. we recently asked an uncle to get him away from the mailbox. the mailbox is safe now.XD
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
28 Oct 10
Oh, she's only thirteen? So you have to wait "a little" until you'll see the changes. I don't know, she's only a child, don't expect her to do too much. I remember when I was her age, my mother didn't ask me to do anything around the house. All I was supposed to do was to learn. And that's what I did. But when I left to college, I was forced to live alone, and I had to do everything in the house: leaning, cooking and so on.
@greygoo (795)
• Philippines
29 Oct 10
oh i had to do loads of stuff when i was her age. my mom worked so i had to help her with the house chores. i had to learn how to cook, to do the dishes, to wash clothes and iron them, and to clean the house. i don't do all of them all the time, but i had to be prepared in case i had to them. it was like that for years until i went to college. since i'm away now, my sister will have to be my substitute, but she's hardly any help. not that it applies to every child in my country, but we are usually taught to do house chores at a young age. i do agree with it (even though i hated washing the dishes before), especially with the idea that we ought to help our moms. i personally learned a lot. i have classmates who don't know how to cook at all, and we are already in our 20s.0_0
@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
23 Nov 10
I think some kids were just a bit lazy and hopefully your sister is not fat because it might be the case. But I am not really saying it's the only sole reason why she is being lazy. Maybe prepare some punishment for her if she can't do things the right way. She must learn how to do some task the right way because it's part of life. If she always act like this all the time then there is a tendency she will never go far in life. Talk to her at least one hour everyday and explain to here that life is not a bed of roses that everyone should work. Give her task everyday so that she will learn how things work in this world.
@greygoo (795)
• Philippines
12 Jan 11
hi~ i'm sorry i totally forgot about replying to your response. i was so busy when it came and the notif got mixed with lots of stuff in my inbox. anyway, she's not fat at all. she's thin really. i can say she's improving. she's still grumpy and all when you tell her to do something, but she does it anyway. and last Christmas i had a serious conversation with her, and she seemed to understand. i do know she hates getting scolded for being lazy too, so i told her what to do. it seems that she's not really rebelliously lazy; she just doesn't know what to do or where to start. so i taught her a cleaning routine; a list of things to do specifying where to start and what to do next. she had a good start last December. she still forgot to do some chores, but at least she has started to work without being told.:)
• Malaysia
21 Feb 13
I don't think your sister is lazy but she is only a child. A girl who is only thirteen years old is considered very young and maybe she did not expect the dog to chew on the bill, did she? I doubt it. Things like that may happen accidentally and it was not your sister's fault. After all she is just thirteen, you might want to wait until she is your age before you can scold her like that, don't you think? Anyway you seem to worry, and that is a good sign that you actually love her, but you just don't know how to express your love to her. Be kinder and gentler, over time your sister will grow up and become wiser. Take care and be nice!
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
13 Jan 13
Most of them are... my two sisters do nothing never have. They expect my 68 year old dad to do everything for them... wrong....