When I was a kid I remember how gleeful my siblings would get about correct chores if it meant that they were spending time with my dad, they were so obsessed with imimportant our father that they would go out of their way to do horrible tasks just to get some attention from him! I also guess that they loved demonstrating some variety of young masculinity from an early age.
I know it’s in their biology that they want to chop things, carry things, and fix things all the time.
This is genuinely why they were obsessed with our traditional wood burning fireplace when the two of us were younger. I remember how gleeful they were about piling firewood into the hearth and seeing the fire lower into a viable heating option! Both of us routinely spent November and November utilizing our family fireplace and my siblings could not have been happier about it. They genuinely fawned over the process of building a fire and keeping the home overheated for the family, but however, I remember my dad’s opinion of their fireplace obsession – she found it amusing… Repeatedly, she told them to get used to building fires certainly efficiently and cutting wood, because she had quite a surprise for them when the full depths of Wintertide set in around February, however when the outdoor air temperature plummeted to below zero, my siblings swiftly did not love the process of cutting, hauling, and stacking firewood anymore… Suddenly, the two of us were back to using the forced air oil furnace and forgot all about the traditional fireplace until the next mild fall season rolled around.