Dad kicks 16-year-old son out after son claims doing household chores is a 'woman's job', son turns to mom for help, only for her to take dad's side: ‘She’ll teach him a lesson'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 29, 2024 10:00 AM EST

Since we are living in a world that still, unfortunately, treats women and men differently, people who become parents have an extra responsibility when raising their kids, especially when raising boys.

It is crucial that young men understand that boys and girls deserve to be treated the same way, that girls can do everything boys can, and vice versa. Educating these kids is the first step to ensure that adults will follow the same rules, and that cannot happen without a firm hand on the subject.

The parents, and specifically the dad, in this Reddit story, took this matter to heart, and I have a lot of respect for how it went down. When their son declares he doesn't want to do any household chores because that, in his words, is 'a woman's job', the dad immediately puts him in his place. He made his son start packing, and took him to stay at his mother's home (divorced parents), where mom was ready to teach her son a lesson.

Keep scrolling to read what happened next. After you are done, check out this cool collection of funny Tumblr memes.

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    AITAH for teaching my son after lesson and throwing him out after he said household chores are a woman's job?
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    Throw away account as my son knows my real one, and I want some advice. I (34M) got a 16 year old son with my ex (34F). We had our son way too early in life; we lived
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    on the same street growing up, and knew eachother from school. We fooled around sometimes and the rest is history. I'm ashamed to say but both our parents have been exceptionally
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    controlling in both our lives up until the divorce, and both my ex and me were too much of a pushover to do anything about it. When they learned she was pregnant, they forced us to get
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    married. They told me they want her as a SAHM and me to work. My ex and I, we hated eachother for our stolen lives. We were never cruel to one another, and have never displayed any hatred
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    in our house for our son's sake. But we slept in different bedrooms, and avoided eachother as much as we could. We split up after I caught her "cheating" which finally made us both able to break off the chains
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    of control both our parents had over us and get divorced 2 years ago. Now everything is very good between us and I even consider her a friend, now that she's no longer my wife.
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    And, credit where credit is due, she was however, a remarkable homemaker and an amazing mother. When we divorced, I had to learn all of this on my own. It was the
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    first time I realised how much work goes into maintaining a house, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I had to look up YouTube tutorials on how to clean and cook.
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    A few weeks ago, I was ironing me and my sons clothes and told him that I want to teach him how to do this, as I don't want him falling into the same mistake I did and never learning
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    this on my own. He said he doesn't want to and I just said he'll have to learn to do this at some point. He then said "only failed men do stuff like this and I won't be one of them."
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    I stopped and looked up a bit. bewildered and asked him to clarify. He said that it is his belief that this is a woman's job to do and that only simps do simple household chores.
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    I tried to keep my composure as much as I could but asked if he saw me as a simp and he just shrugged. I told him that now he will have to choose his next words very carefully but I said that he will learn household work weather he likes it or not.
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    He again reiterate what he said and I said well, if you think this is a woman's job, it's time for you to live with a woman and to pack his bag and to go to his mom's house, as I will not have any of that Andrew Tate bulls in my house.
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    My son lives with me during the week as his school is only 5 minutes away and his mom nearly 2 hours. He refused to make his bag so I made it for him, he started seeing the gravity of my seriousness and
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    tried to backtrack on his words but I wasn't having any of it. He must've called his mom in the time I was packing as she called me as well. She asked me what's going on and I told her what happened. Surprisingly
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    she's on my side and has just asked me to drop him off at hers and she'll help teaching him a lesson. It's been about 2 weeks now that he lives with his mom, and she
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  • There is something really satisfying to me that the parent who educated the son was the dad and not the mom. It's important that the son will learn from these lessons from his father, while his father sets a clear example of how things need to be done around the house. 

    Praised parenting all in all. 

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    has been reinforcing the household chores on him. He's called me multiple times to apologise and asking me to come back, his mom and I agreed he's going to stick this up for a week or 2 after the
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    holidays, and make him commute to school and do lesser household chores; and them let him come back to me to reinforce the consequence of his "belief"
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    My friends that I spend Christmas with yesterday said I was rather hard and it was a dia move to uproot his life like this and it was an AH thing to do. So now I am questioning myself, was I the AH here?
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    Aggravating_Ring39 • 2h ago Top 1% Commenter Awesome job coparenting and holding him accountable
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    Interesting-Guard-97 • 2h ago • NTA. You gave him a reality check that he needed, and it sounds like you and his mom are on the same page to teach him a valuable lesson. Better he learns this now than grows up with that mindset.
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    JTBlakeinNYC • 2h ago Top 1% Commenter NTA. You two may not have been right for one another as spouses, but you're both amazing parents.
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    sorceressofgrayskull • 2h ago • NTA - your kid needed discipline and to learn a lesson and so that's what you did. Those other people that commented to you don't have to live with your son or his behaviour/actions so they don't get to critique your parenting.
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    Any_Fig2463 • 2h ago • My mother taught my brother how to cook, clean, and wash his clothes before going to university, and he hated it. BUT, when he got to university, he
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    was one of very few who could do those things, and he helped teach others how to feed themselves and wash their clothes, hahaha. NTA
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