GEEC 1052
ESSAY
NURUL AIKAL BINTI MOHD ROPI
CONTENT
1.0 CONTENT
2.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
3.0 ESSAY
4.0 REFERENCES
Describe how helping at home
develops your character.
2.0Acknowledgement
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful. I would like to express
my gratitude to Allah who has given the patient, strength and determination in order
to implement this task. My special thanks to our dearest lecturer Madam Noraida Binti
Mustafa for helping and encourage me to the highest peak in the completion of my
task.
Next, I would to express my sincere thanks and immensely obliged to all of my
friends that always encouraging guidance, elevating inspiration and giving some ideas
for me. My deepest gratitude for them that always share their support either mentally
or physically in completing this task.
Last but not least, big thanks I address to my beloved parents for their prayers,
love, caring, support and sacrifices in order to help me completing my task. My
assignment would not be possible if all of them did not help me.
What is a family? Peter Buffett (2010), once said “It didn’t matter how big our
house was, it mattered that there was love in it”. This shows that a wonderful
family is adorned with full of warmth and tenderness bonds. This fondness is not
only gained through family holidays but involving family members when doing
housework or helping at home. This can form happiness in the family as it has
many advantages in order to build virtuous characteristics. Helping at home has
become a daily routine for my family and I since I was seven years old because they
believed, family routines can set out on how families spent time together, have fun
and organizes themselves to get things done like the saying, ‘there’s no place like
home which means no matter home is always the best that is not only comfortable
but it is where family and love can be found. Do you wonder how this basic normal
activities at home can shape good mannerism? It helps build obedience, frame
feeling consideration, construct self-reliance and responsibility.
First and foremost, patience is built from day to day through by helping at home. Patience is
the capacity to accept or tolerate problems, delay, suffering without becoming annoyed or
anxious and obedience in every situation. Obedience is the act of obeying either on instruction
or order given by parents. For example, help in serving meals or learning cooking-need to
listen every single word from my mom in order to make appetizing meals for family. On that
day, we are doing rendang in conjunction to 8As achievement of my little brother in his SPM.
As we know, to make rendang, patience is needed to achieve the amazing result. I still
remembered my mom told me to braise the beef in the coconut milk and then seasoned it with
spice mixture. Next, I need to keep the beef slow cooked and must wait till the liquids
evaporate. Even though it is a long process, I must follow every single steps given by my
mother and as the result it is the best meals we had that day. From this moment, I had learned
that even only a small effort from me helping my mom doing side dishes, it still give a great
impacts in order building my obedience essence. I still remembered, back then I was naughty
enough and always discard my parents advices as cooking is something that I love, I always
help my mother at home thus it helps me build obedience nature. As the result, I am able to
follow all the rules either at school or other regulation. Thus, it is clearly states that helping at
home can build patient characteristic for me.
Secondly, helping at home by doing laundry and cleaning houses at the same
time help me to be considerate with other feelings and emotions. Considerate
is shown by careful thought or being careful not to inconvenience or harm
others. At home, my mom had scheduled for everyone to do laundry everyday.
I usually do the laundry on Friday that I need to gather all the dirty clothes
through the house, putting the clothes in the washing machine, taking out the
clothes, placing again into the dryer and lastly putting out the drying clothes to
the proper places. I felt very worn out because of doing laundry by myself and
need to clean the house as well. I need to sweep the floor, vacuum some
rooms, mop the floor with disinfect and organize things. All these consume a
lot of time and energy. As a result, from helping my family through this task,
I’m able to understand how extremely tired and fatigue my mom felt when she
is doing all these tasks by herself. She needs to pick up every single clothes
that are scattered on the floor, washing, drying and folding clothes by herself
and this indirectly cultivate sense of thoughtful in myself. Hence, helping at
home develops sense of consideration in myself.
Lastly, we can be a responsible and self-reliance person by helping at home. Self
reliance is the ability to depend on ourselves to get all things done and handle
everything on our own. For example ,my mom gives me the task to always
gardening every evening and need used to keep each of our bedroom neat and tidy
after waking up. My mom always says that bedroom is the place where you start
and end the day. Keep the bed neat and tidy everyday can instil responsibility. If
my siblings and I did not do the task, we will get scolded by mom. We also need to
do gardening as fine. In out-turn, it will slowly instil self-reliance. My little
brother who are 7 years old, is instructed to well kept his bedroom and will be
scolded too. And because of this, all of my siblings are dependable when being left
at home as responsibility and self-reliance had built in ourselves. Thus, helping at
home steadily construct responsibility and self-reliance beside attract bonding
among family members.
To sum up, it is proven that helping at home by doing house work can build
positive characteristics. Being obedience is one of the hardest pure value to get
but we can gain it through helping our family at home. Consideration is not
something that everyone have. It must be nurtured since early birth and by
helping at home is one of the effective ways. Helping at home is a must since it
can make us a person with responsibility and self-reliance. Teenagers nowadays
are busy with their own world through social media without helping their family
to do chores and this will affect of their relationships. Helping at home is a must
for everyone and I had felt the great impact from this activity.
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