The other day I reminded my 7-year-old that unless she made her bed and picked up the 50 million plastic pieces from her disassembled Deluxe Marble Race that lay scattered on her bedroom floor, going to see “The Smurfs” in 3D was out of the question.
“What am I a slave?” she asked flatly.
Precious, huh?
Not so much, but definitely relatable if you are a parent of a child who is willing to go to great lengths to get out of completely his chores.
Just ask the parents of an 11-year-old German boy, who actually turned to police, in order to weasel his way out of cleaning his room.
According to news reports, the boy called the cops and complained of “forced labor” after his mother asked him to help tidy up their house.
The bodacious boy whined to police, “I have to work all day long. I haven’t any free time.”
Upon learning that her lazy offspring used Germany’s version of 911 to rat her out, the boy’s mom simply sighed.
According to the police report, the kid had repeatedly threatened his mom about calling the cops because he did not want to do chores during summer vacation.
He finally followed through with the threat when his mom made him clean his room, the bathroom and the terrace.
According to the kid’s mom, her son never got as far as the terrace. She explained to police that the boy barely helped to pick up paper from the floor, adding: “He plays all day long and when told to tidy up what he’s done, he calls it forced labor.”
Asked by officers if he knew what “forced labor” was, the boy said he did.
Really?
Send him to my house and we’ll see if his definition of “forced labor” holds up.
What would you do if your kid called the cops on you?
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