This women should be praised! me and my BF live together so we share the chores together....All kids need to learn to pull their weight so they are able for living alone in the real world!!

People care too much about EVERYTHING. Especially other people's business.

To all those criticizing, I know people in their mid to late twenties still who wait on their mother to cook for them, do their laundry and shopping. These people have good education and some a great career, but they basically still can't wipe their a** when it comes to simple, everyday things. I don't know what will happen to them when their parents are no longer able to hold them by the hand. IT has nothing to do with slavery, it's learning crucial skills, being responsible and know how to pull your own weight and not be useless and constantly dependent on others.

i dont get why there still people that think that a man cant be do household chores is just ridiculous.

Hi I live in the U.K and I think this is the best thing any mum can do for her children it teaches them hou to look after themselves and others, as well has that if you want things then you have to work for it, but has for treating them as slaves why don't you watch the Victorian slums channel 4 in the U.K I'm sure you can get it on catch up or omething over there, now they where tret like slaves and they did have all the mod cons of today, why don't you look at the adverts for charities that want you to give money to save children, they don't have a choice aether would you say they were tret like slaves. I wish these people would open there eyes and brains and look at the younger generation we have today where they think every thing come to them who waits. It don't

If I ever have daughter I wish she marry your son :) fantastic mother. He is so smart boy and will be wonderful man.

Why is this even a post?..... this is 100% normal, all children should be taught to do jobs and chores as part of their contribution to the running of the home, regardless of someone else applying a needless gender tag to a particular task. This does not make the OP a genius revolutionary parent FFS.

The ones criticism ingredients this woman got brats lol. My daughter helped me sweep when she was 1-1/2. I grew up doing chores I used to love and still love cooking. It is great for kids and they learn responsibility. They love to Help at a young age and if you start early it becomes second nature. I praise any parent that teaches their child to be responsible and contribute instead of teaching them that someone owes them something.

So people weren't pitching fits because he's a boy doing housework but because he's doing housework at all? Seriously? Kids don't do basic chores any more? Yeesh! We all had jobs to do that were age appropriate and they had to be done. Nothing was rocket science and we weren't chained in the kitchen, but we all learned all of those things - AND how to change oil, sharpen a chain saw, split wood, repair tile floors, and everything else that comes with living in a house.

Not only that if his parents are ill enough to notphysically not be able to do some of these things he can care for himself...and them until he can get help.

Pretty offtopic, but it's quite nice to actually see someone ending a sentence using quotation marks in the "right way."

My boyfr never did washing etc, they always had maids! So it is super frustrating. Good job mom!

That Tammy Bellavance is dumb as s**t and Scottie Wade is a patriarchal a*s. Excellent job on the mom who taught his son to be independent. Bravo!

I don't understand what's the problem with what she's trying to do. Is it that her kid can and will be able to do so many things that the kids of her trollers cannot do or will learn those things much later? The kid looks happy to me and as long as he's hail and hearty and enjoys helping out his mom, it's fine!

And even MORE people didn't care and went on with their lives.

Im with her.. kids dont learn on their own they must be taught,that is a parents roll to teach their children how to manage when an adult

Props to this lady. Not only is she doing a good job raising her son to be self sufficient. But she also handled all the negative and ignorant comments with grace.

People will complain about anything. There is nothing wrong with a kid doing chores. You want your kids to grow up as lazy slobs? That's their prerogative. But there's nothing wrong with teaching them hard work isn't a bad thing.

Yasss this is how you raise productive members of society! Kids who never had to do chores end up being lazy useless adults. Your doing parenting right Nikkole, keep it up!

:) This woman is amazing :) iam a single mother too and my son (he is 5, in jan. 6 years old) he love it to helps me :) he always say "i am a big and strong man, if my mother needs help, i help her" :D when ppl think my son is a slave or anything like this, ppl can think it :) i know the true, my friends and my family know the true too and That's the only thing that counts. (sry for my bad english)

What the heck?? What is wrong with chores? Jeez good for her though, I know some adults can't f*****g figure out how to boil water. The world needs more common sense and responsibilities.

My son is a bachelor, where would he be if he didn't know how to cook, clean and do laundry? My other son is a husband and father of two little girls, he knows how to do all those things AND can manage a pig tail or braid, his wife is glad to have the help. My daughter is the mother of a 18 month old son, his first chore was to pick up the food around his high chair. Guess what, he doesn't throw food on the floor anymore! I say, good job Nikkole!

I see negative people not understanding a simple post of an intelligent MOM!

This makes me sad. Simply because so many people think it is sooo wonderful this boy is doing household chores. Why is this wonderful? Why is this any different than a picture of a girl using the stove? I didn't realize in my little bubble that this gender stereotypes still exist in such an extend that this would go viral. My son's 28 and he did his laundry and made his dinner and ran a vacuum as did his father. Why is this even a thing?

People has always words to say but to me i'm with that MOM. That is raw training for his child to be better person and will contribute a lot in his future life. We know everything starts at home. Your parents are your first teacher. They know what is the best for you and not to harm you. For me it is very practical thing to let your child be exposed in those simple chores. Me as growing child our parents taught us well to do things while they are working... in that manner we slowly understand that we need to work as a team to accomplish big things and we understand that we need to value what we've learned and be responsible enough.

This is nothing new, back in the 50s and 60s my grandmother taught me how to cook and sewing how to raise vegetables and take care of chickens and rabbits. I started learning to cook at 5yrs old she was in her 60s. I taught my son and daughters to cook and take care of themselves. My grandmother said if a man can't take care of himself how can he take care of someone else.

Perfect. Good for her. Boys will be almost exactly like girls, it turns out. http://www.oculusmundi.com/boys-will-be-almost-exactly-like-girls-it-turns-out-now-how-to-get-people-to-believe-the-science.html

My mom did the same with me, now I'm 31 and I don't need a girl to wash my clothes, cook, iron my clothes or cleaning the house. I know to do everything, indeed if I invite a girl to my house I cook for her and I wash the dishes, also in my office not all the girls know to cook and the end I'm the one who cook.

Why was she criticised? Me and my older siblings helped round the house when we were growing up.

I think she was criticized because of the number of pictures of him doing different things she had posted. Gave people the impression she had him doing all the housework for her rather than just some chores.

It's good that she does this, but it's much ado about nothing. This isn't the 50s. Of course boys should know how to cooks and girls should know how to mow. Also, the criticism isn't particularly strong. It's like she's sucking around for a fight that isn't there.

Women who criticize are like - yo, you're treating your son like a slave (turns Jennifer Lopez's "Ain't Your Mama" on)...

Good parenting!

Those people who reacted negatively to this were most likely sheltered and spoiled when they were younger, not required to do any chores around the house as children. But regardless, they should not be saying anything about this mother's parenting. Who are they to judge? Different people have different parenting styles. I hate when some parents talk in a matter-of-fact type of way and tell other parents they're doing it wrong. Every child is different and there's not a single parenting style that works universally for every parent or child. I think it's great that this mom is teaching him to be capable of taking care of himself starting at a young age. Children who were coddled until they're older and sent off to live on their own are probably lost and don't know how to cook for themselves, do their own laundry, clean their own living space, etc. and will need their moms to come over and do all of that for them.

It seems parents are not able anymore to teach anything without taking a picture and posting it on FB

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