Do you think it's a good upbringing method to make your kids stressful at home, give them work, and forbid them from doing things they enjoy so that they are happy to go to school?
For example, for this reason, to collect the cell phone and the laptop, to prohibit calls to friends, additional work at home and so on.
I wanted to hang out again that I'm 16, clean my room and our bathroom, make my bed, cover the table in the evening, take care of my guinea pigs and go out regularly. Also, it's not like I don't have friends, and I never said I didn't want to go to school. I also have absolutely nothing against taking on some more tasks. And finally I have relatively good grades at school (1.8 average)
It should be perfectly normal for you to take part in the daily chores in the household… And not as a "punitive measure".
As a side note, this is one of your duties.
https://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/1619.html
Home and business services
As long as the child belongs to the parental household and is brought up or maintained by the parents, the child is obliged to serve the parents in their household and business in a way that is appropriate to their strength and their position in life.
Otherwise § https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/..._1631.html applies
Content and limits of personal care
(2) Children have the right to a non-violent upbringing. Physical punishments, psychological injuries and other degrading measures are prohibited.
So collecting cell phones and laptops for no reason just because you find it good as a method of education? It would be better to give the kids chores around the house: vacuuming their own room, taking off the bed linen, removing or clearing the dishwasher, shopping, helping out in the garden, walking a dog etc. There's a lot to do. When I was still living at home, we had to help in the household - without grumbling, everyone had their job, it was not negotiable! It wasn't a shame!
In any case, this is one of the stupidest methods of education in my eyes. Clearly from a certain time when you are still young take off your cell phone or something. But by forbidding them everything, the children feel locked up. They may be looking forward to school a little more. But do you really want your children to have a lot of fun elsewhere, but have to reckon that when they come back to mom or dad they won't be able to have any more fun because everything is forbidden? Something like that often stays in this person's head for life. Adolescents in puberty need freedom to find and develop themselves, and you mustn't take that away.
The questioner is concerned with the fact that the parents give work so that the children hate it at home so that they look forward to school. I think that's something different from the normal housework that you have to do at home.
So, I'm also full for helping as a child at home (I'm 13 and vacuuming, put laundry together, put the dishwasher in and out, etc… Simply because we live together and everyone should contribute). But if my father would impose more on me so that I would be happy to go to school because it is now better in comparison… Then I wouldn't think that's okay. I want to look forward to school for completely different reasons, not because it's the lesser evil.
Of course, I help a lot in the household, only my sister and I should now take on additional tasks so that we want to go to school, even though we're both good at school, and have never said that we don't want to go there
That's why I've added § 1631 to my answer text.
Ah okay, I hadn't seen that before when I wrote the comment.
Well, I generally think it's good for children to do certain household chores. In this way they learn practical skills, which also make them more independent. With the aspect that they are looking forward to school again, it is not necessarily beneficial.