Chapter 92: Homely
Duncan's house.
Everyone was happy in the face of Adam's gift.
"Dad, forget Duncan 5, don't have Duncan 6 again. ”
Adam persuaded: "In the past, I and Teddy helped to take it, you can relax, next year Teddy and I will go to college, and we are not at home, are you going to hand over Charlie and Duncan 5 to Gaby?"
"Don't Duncan 5, Duncan 6's call, it's weird and ugly. ”
Mother Amy interrupted dissatisfiedly: "Bob and I have already thought of names, the boy will be called Toby, the girl will be called Angela, and of course Gabby won't need to bring it when the time comes, I will bring it myself." ”
"Toby?"
The corners of Adam's mouth twitched, and he complained in his heart: "Is this a cricket, or Spider-Man?"
As soon as the name was mentioned, the first image that came to his mind was that in the Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Howard heard the cricket cry and bet on the species of crickets, and after no one could convince anyone, they took the cricket named 'Toby' to the school entomologist for identification.
This entomologist, because he was addicted to academics, his wife ran away with all his possessions, and his scientific research funds were cut again, so he wanted to scream at the air, and complained about how stupid it was to name the cricket 'Toby'.
Sheldon was not satisfied with the final decision.
After a furious roar with a hideous face, swinging arms, and hoarseness, even Shelton, who has a strong mouth and a good man, directly conceded defeat, or conceded defeat to Howard, whom he despised the most, and lost his treasured Flash comics that he kept in the bank safe.
What a stupid cricket name!
The tone of this sentence is really unforgettable.
"Mom, you're not going to work?"
"Going to work and taking care of children, of course, is important with children. ”
Mother Amy complained: "Besides, before Charlie was born, didn't I always take care of the child?"
"Do you want to hire a babysitter?"
Adam suggested.
In his opinion, it is not good to be a housewife completely, no matter how loving you are now, the risk of problems in the future is high.
For example, Adam's little friend Sheldon's house.
Sheldon's mother was a housewife, and she didn't work in the church for long, and she quit after accompanying Sheldon to college.
In the near future, Sheldon will see his father and a strange aunt talking about life and ideals, this kind of spicy eye picture that should not be seen, and then develop the habit of knocking on the door three times in advance to prepare time for the people in the house......
Another example, the desperate housewives!
So, with a steady hand, Adam decided to persuade his mother Amy to keep her job and ask a nanny to take care of the children, not because she didn't have money.
"The babysitter took me to rest easy. ”
Mother Amy frowned.
"What's not to worry about. ”
Adam retorted: "Even we can bring it, let alone a nanny, as for worrying, isn't there still Gaby, and he doesn't need to bring it, just supervise, he can do it better than anyone else!"
The third Gaby is a troublemaker, but on the other hand, let him supervise and prevent others from causing trouble, which can be regarded as making the best use of people.
In this regard, the second Teddy has something to say that she finally deceived her parents at the beginning, and asked Adam to take Charlie and wait for the boy she likes, Spencer, to 'study' together.
But at every critical moment, Gaby would appear among them, interrupting the ambiguous atmosphere, making Teddy hate it but helpless.
To say that Gaby is not a liar.
"I get a share of the cost of a babysitter and I'll be fine. ”
Gaby immediately demanded.
In the United States, children in the family generally earn pocket money by doing housework, and school-age children can also do some light work.
The newsboys in the rice community can be described as a unique landscape.
In the original time and space, little Sheldon and little George have done it, but one is to make money and destroy the refrigerator, and the other is to earn pocket money to buy a playboy.
Every day before dawn to get up early, get up and stand at the door of the house, the newspaper subscription company sends a car to deliver from community to community, and after seeing the newsboy in the community, the car does not stop, and directly throws down a stack of newspapers in this community.
The newsboy took it back, folded it separately, and sent it to each family.
The service fee is given by the community newspaper subscription family, usually once a week.
Good attitude, timely delivery, good mood of the newspaper family, more service fees.
On the contrary, there is less.
Parents are also happy to see it, firstly, to exercise the children's hands-on ability, and secondly, to let the children have a clear understanding of how difficult it is to make money, so as to lay the foundation for better integration into society in the future.
Little Sheldon did it for a few days, irritable to the air, and was reprimanded by his father before he realized that this should not be the case.
But in the end, he didn't continue to work, but outsourced to the stupid boy next door, became a capitalist, and earned money while sleeping.
As for the stupid kid next door, why don't you just be a newsboy and collect all the fees?
Silly!
Ya was also a newsboy in his own right, and later did more difficult chores such as mowing the lawn when he was older.
Little Shelton's elder brother, George Jr., first bought and sold small things to make money, and later repaired cars, sold fishing gear and hardware, made a lot of money, and swelled, so that his father asked him to mow the lawn, but he was unwilling to do it, and paid someone to do it, and was cut by his father.
Because doing housework to make money is secondary, cultivating a sense of responsibility and hands-on ability is what parents value the most.
Otherwise, wouldn't that be the exploitation of child labor?
"Deal. ”
Dad Bob was moved.
As for Gaby taking a child or something, he didn't really worry too much, because he didn't bring the child much better than Gabi.
Ya's stupid cuteness in front of PJ was completely thrown out by Bob, and almost every child in the family was thrown by him, so much so that he fell Charlie, and Amy just complained and complained, "Huh?"
He didn't actually want Amy to be a housewife anymore.
Can Amy, a housewife in loose home clothes, and Amy, a nurse in a white or pink nurse outfit, be the same?
The attraction is not a level at all, is it good!
"Let's talk about it. ”
Mom Amy rolled her eyes directly.
Motherhood is overflowing, and between work and children, she will always choose children.
"Bob, have you booked a ticket? Tickets are very tight during Christmas, so it's better to book them early. ”
"Ugh. ”
Daddy Bob's face fell.
Originally, he still thought that he could delay it, but when the time came, he directly said that there was no ticket, and he went to Palm Springs to be despised and ridiculed by his mother-in-law.
But now, it seems, there is no chance.
"Booking tickets right away. ”
Seeing Dad Bob with his back to Mom, with a sad face, Adam and they all smiled.
Adam didn't mention that he was paying for the ticket.
He's not as inflated or stupid as little George.
It doesn't matter how much money you spend to buy gifts for your family.
But my father earns money to support his family, and spends money to buy air tickets to take the whole family to his mother-in-law's house for Christmas, which is his responsibility, and it is also the dignity and pride of the head of his family, which can never be challenged.