First Jobs, First Chores: Childhood Responsibilities

 The very first responsibilities we had as kids— walking the dog, babysitting siblings, mowing lawns, or just remembering to turn off the lights. Some of them felt huge at the time, and some still make us laugh today. Listeners chimed in with their own “first responsibilities,” plus we find out that 67% of kids haven't done this ONE thing. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up fifth in the morning, kiss morning, So
think back, what was the first responsibility that your parents
trusted you with? Babysitting, cutting the grass, cooking dinner?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's the deal?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Because sixty seven percent of kids have never even used.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
A sharp knife? Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And I don't want to compare the two generations or
any of the generations.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
That's not what it's about.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
But it had me thinking back to, like, wait a minute,
what was the first responsibility that my parents trusted me with?
It took me a second, but it was definitely babysitting.
I feel like I was babysitting my youngest brother well
before like was I was legally allowed to do that,
but you know, that's what millennial parents did. I think

(00:52):
I was babysitting my one year old brother when I
was probably eleven or twelve at least.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's how I remember it in my brain.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Kids, by the way, is the keyword that you're gonna
need to win the Taylor Swift amc passes to Life
of a show Girl at Newport Theaters this Saturday. If
I forgot to mention that, what is the first responsibility
that your parents trusted you with? Five one three seven
four nine, one oh seven one, or talk back with
Tiff on the app. The microphone is in the top

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right hand corner when you search kiss ONUE oh seven
one on iHeartRadio. And I want to see what our
responses are. Is it cutting grass? Is it using a
sharp knife?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
What was it for you?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Good morning? You are waking up with Tim in the
morning on kissue oh seven one.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Let me tell you this right now, my best friend
Nashley in Boston still calls her own mother to whether
and facetimes her to ask whether or not the chicken
in the fridge has gonebat. So. I don't want this
to be a generation thing against generations, But if you're
just walking into the conversation, I'm asking you this morning,
what's the first task or chore or responsibility that your

(01:59):
parents rusted you with when you were growing up? Because
I saw a headline that sixty seven percent of kids
haven't even used a sharp knife, okay, or haven't done
a single chore that they haven't gotten paid for. And
I was babysitting my one year old brother when I
was like eleven or twelve, which I'm pretty sure is illegal,

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but you know that's how millennial parents did it back
in the early thousands. Good morning, Marci's in Springdale. What's
the first responsibility you had?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hello, I have two things. You get one thing, but
two things for you. Okay. First, definitely cutting grass. I
was like twelve.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Ah, yeah, that was a good one, Marci. Hold on
for the second thing, yard work chores.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I remember my.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Dad used to force me to stack wood because we
have this wood stove growing up in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
And he would get.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
A court a cord maybe of wood, and he would want.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
It perfectly stacked.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And let me tell you, the images of that experience
are burned so deep, deeply in my brain.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's scarring and jarring at the same time. All right,
let's look at our talkbacks. Let's pop over to here.
So I was always in charge of making sure that
the chicken was out of the freezer and sea calling
and the sink.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
And there was no worse anxiety than my mom texted
me and being liked, you take the chicken out. She's
on her way home. And you had to try to
do a quick call because you forgot to take the
chicken out.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I crying.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Clearly you were on your way to wherever it is.
That you were going this morning, and I do appreciate
you making Tiff in the morning a part of your
routine more than you know. So the quality on that
one was a little but it did make me giggle. Yeah,
we all had that parent that would call and say, hey,
can you take whatever out of the freezer?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
And then of course you were wrapped up in Super.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Mario, so you were like, no, I forgot oops, my bad.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Oh. But they put the fear of God in you
on that one.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Okay, coming up three minutes for now, kids, By the way,
is the keyword that you're gonna need to win the
Life of a Showgirl screening passes at AMC Theaters in
Newport on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
We'll do that in three minutes. You're waking up with
Tiff in the morning on Kiss one O seven one.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Good morning. I'm hoping you have a keyword for me.
It's kid. Congratulations. You got the keyword. You're getting to
see You're going to see Taylor Swift this Saturday at AMC. Awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
What's your name with neighbor? You waking up with me in?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
My name is Ray and I'm here with Avery.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hey and where from Batavia?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well? Welcome to Tiff in the Morning, and I bet
you guys are excited to see the.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
To the album to come out.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yes, we are, well. Thank you for listening to Tiff
in the Morning.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Awesome than you. You are so welcome.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Every day on TIF in the Morning, we're doing something
for Taylor Swift's album coming out this week.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
So if you took an l on these.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
AMC movie Theater passes, she's doing Life of a Showgirl
in theater on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Kiss has a private screening.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I will get you in tomorrow right around the same time,
and we'll do lots of things celebrating Taylor as we
get ready for it to come out Thursday night at midnight.
All right, coming up in three minutes, we'll get into
the three things you need to know to get your
day started in Sinci. Starting today, Ohio's youngest drivers will
need to do this one thing before they're allowed to

(05:13):
get their license. Don't go far.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
That's next.