28-year-old son returns home to help his parents: Breakfast money is not a sign of dependence

Previously he worked in the city, but now when he returns home, his only job is to cook rice and then take him to his parents' business.

My brother and sister live in the countryside and have a warehouse that buys agricultural products. Every morning, the couple wakes up very early. She quietly puts 200,000 VND into her 28-year-old son's coat pocket so he can wake up to have breakfast and drink coffee. After that, the couple ran back to the barn to start a day of work.

The son has graduated from college and has worked before, but has never held a job for more than two years. Currently, he returns to his hometown to live with his parents. Every morning, receiving 200,000 VND, he went to have breakfast, drank coffee, then went home to cook rice, and at noon brought the rice to the granary for his parents.

If you just look at the fact that a 28-year-old person still gets money for breakfast every morning from his mother, perhaps many people will think that he is too dependent on his parents. But knowing the story behind it, I don't think so.

My husband and I worked from morning to night in the barn. The son stays home to take care of the food, gives food to his parents and can help with other things when needed. About 200,000 VND per day, so I consider it part of living expenses or wages that the family actively shares with each other.

More importantly, if he takes over the family's agricultural farm in the future, the current period can also be considered a preparation period. Instead of continuing to go to the city to work an unstable job, he returned to his hometown, lived near his parents and had the opportunity to learn how to run the family business.

I think this story also shows another choice of young people today. It's not true that after graduating from college, you have to stay in the city, rent a house, and endure work pressure to be considered successful. If the family has an existing job, land or a business and young people can participate and take over, that is also a direction worth considering.

In many rural areas, more and more young people are leaving, while older parents still have to manage their own work. A returning young person not only helps his parents have more human resources, but can also retain a job, a business and even a traditional family profession.

Of course, the important thing is whether the child actually works and has plans for the future or not. If at 28 years old you still only know how to receive money, play, do nothing and have no intention of building your own life, then that is a different story.