we decided to have our teens

[PrincessFiona]

Start being responsible for some of their laundry... not all.

Within 1 month it cost us a $180 repair on our frontloader because they broke the door. Today the door isnt shutting properly agsin and water is leaking out.

Grrrrr.

Thumbs down!

Kris

[Sheherezade]

My washer is broken. So is my neighbors! It must be going around! . Sorry about the fail; that sounds like what happens around here too...

[GreyhoundsRUs]

:/

[PrincessFiona]

Ugh! Its such a bummer!

[diggitydot]

What the hell did they do to it?!

[PrincessFiona]

Who knows! They swear it wasn't them! Of course

[peggyfromwastate]

My teen... She helps by moving my stuff to the top of the washer, loading her stuff, then forgetting it. Ugh.

I have a thing about laundry-- so I have no right to complain about how much laundry there is. I just have to do it all myself or I don't think it's "done".

I am not washing dhs scrubs (he just unloaded 3 huge trash bags from the trunk of his car-- all full of clothes). I have the kids put away their laundry, and I have them out their clean clothes back in their drawers... But actually running the laundry machine?? Hmmmm. No.

[L.Jane]

Haha.. oy. When we were teens we started doing our own laundry because we wouldn't get our socks back. Three sisters and a mother with pretty much all the same foot size... It was a fight for socks. If you wanted yours back, you did your own laundry...

Sorry about the laundry machine mishap....

[PrincessFiona]

I am at a point with Amanda's laundry where I refuse to do it. She throws clean clothing on the floor and then brings it all to the laundry. I need her to start having to do the work then. DH is not happy but I'm still going to insist. She has to learn how much work goes into it all.

Teenagers.... ugh

[Thirteen]

I am at a point with Amanda's laundry where I refuse to do it. She throws clean clothing on the floor and then brings it all to the laundry. I need her to start having to do the work then. DH is not happy but I'm still going to insist. She has to learn how much work goes into it all.

Teenagers.... ugh

You are so nice, Kris. As I've mentioned before, everyone in our house got "the laundry talk" at age 11, and my mother rinsed her hands of the responsibility, so to speak.


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[mommax3]

Mine do their own, with prodding, but I can't watch the process. I do sometimes help Nathan, who is 11. I am very OCD about laundry and folding/hanging things immediately. Needless to say, the boys are not....but they don't care if their clothes are wrinkled, either. Hopefully, my daughters-in-law will thank me some day for making the boys do this.

[diggitydot]

Our two oldest do a lot of their own laundry, but all three help fold and put away. We began making DD2 wash/dry/fold her own laundry after discovering a shit ton of still-clean and unworn clothes in her hamper.

DD1 does a load almost every night because she can't be bothered to bring all of her laundry up when I ask (because that would mean she'd need to clean her bedroom), so she can damn well do her own.

[SoonerTexan]

We did our own, too. My brothers would steal my socks and wear them outside

[DCJenn]

Nikolai helps sort and move the stuff from the washer to the dryer (ah, the front loaders- low enough that the kids can help!). He also has been known to wear dirty uniform pants to school because the dirty clothes bin didn't make it to the laundry room. I wash what's in the laundry room. I'm not going on a search. He's also run out of socks because they were all strewn about the house. I found 4 pair under the desk where we have the computer set up. Again- not my problem. Wear sandals. Wear dirty socks. Wear no socks.

J

[HouseofWool]

Mostly, my 10 year old now knows to check the dryer before complaining that he doesn't have clean clothes. I clearly suck at this and now understand why my sister and I were made to do the laundry at age 12. This is a task I cannot wait to pass on!