laughing...my mother was raised this way. When she was a teen and her mother had to work out of the house because her father was disabled, my mother would get up early in the mornings and make the breakfast for her 4 working brothers. Then she would make their lunches, clean up the kitchen and get things ready for my grandmother and grandfather. She would go to school and then come home to do the laundry and make dinner at night. Later on, school got to be too much so she quit school and got a job. She still made the breakfasts and the lunches for her brothers, worked and came home to help her mother with dinner and clean the house.
Now my uncles, on the other hand, would get up, read the morning paper, eat the breakfast prepared for them, go to work, eat the lunch that was prepared for them, come home and eat the dinner that was prepared for them while they relaxed and read another paper.
My mother tried to raise me to be the same way...ha, ha. I rebelled at an early age and said that my older brother could take care of himself. :lol:
When we raised our children, both (girl and boy) learned to cook, sew on the sewing machine, clean the house, work on their cars, stack wood, drive the farm equipment and raise a garden. We worked as a team.
Now both are adults, finished college, have good jobs, are very self-sufficient and always ready to help others when there is a need.
The only thing that makes me laugh (with the way my children turned out) is the way that my daughter always goes to her younger brother to get him to change her brakes on her vehicle. She knows how to do it, but her younger brother (25 years old) always comes to her rescue. :lol: