[blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

Fri Jun 8 02:28:15 UTC 2012

This is an awsome idea, soaking the clothes, I also do this and I always 
wash everything in cold water ... this prevents things from bleeding 
especially if they're newer and also helps make sure stains come out.  When 
I had babies I'd soak their clothes for like overnight to make sure stains 
came out ... for the most part it worked but occasionally I'd have someone 
sighted sort through things just to make sure.  My daughter helps me go 
through clothes every so often and tells me ... that's stained or you 
spilled klorox on that one or ... yeah you get the picture, lol.  Another 
thing that works good is klorox 2 ... but if you're trying to go green then 
ignore that one.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Samara Raine
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:05 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

How do you soak the clothes in tide? Do you do it once they're in the
machine or in a bucket of some sort? Sorry, this may seem pretty self
explanitory, but I just want to be sure.

Sam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Jackson" <jennifersjackson at att.net>
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

>I use a lot of Oxy Clean in this house, and Tide with every load. I also 
>let
> the clothes soak for about 15 extra minutes in the Tide for almost every
> load. Tide is the only really harsh chemical I use in my whole house. I 
> use
> it because consumer reports says it is the best cleaner. Most people do 
> not
> need this much cleaning power for every day, but as I can not see the 
> stains
> to pre-treat this is what I do. My boys do still manage to stain some of
> their clothes though.
>
> I do four to five loads of laundry every day to keep up with all the dirty
> clothes they produce, so my boys always have something to where.
>
> Sometimes we are still subject to the negative ideas of others. My son had
> the school health aid wrapped around his finger at school. He once told me
> he did not have to put on clean socks because "my nurse will have some for
> me." This same health aid gave him a clean shirt to where one day at 
> school
> and assured me it was no big deal. Of course it was a big deal, I sent him
> in a clean shirt that morning that was the same shirt he wore the day
> before. He pulled it off the top of the laundry basket and I even warned 
> him
> people might think he was wearing a dirty shirt. The nurse offered him one
> he thought was cool and he just let her believe the one he had on was 
> dirty
> so he could wear the shirt she had. I could tell in my many conversations
> with this woman that she thought she was "saving" my son. She called me 
> one
> day because poor Henry was not eating and she was really worried about 
> him.
> Now he already had an appointment about changing his medication set up for
> the next week so his trouble with his appetite had already been noted, but
> she still called me at least three more times that week to talk about how
> Henry was not eating at school and she was really worried about him taking
> his medication on an empty stomach and this loss of appetite. Now because 
> of
> the ADHD meds I offered my son breakfast at home and at school to increase
> our chances of getting him to eat in the morning. She was going to the
> cafeteria and checking on him every day that week and practically begging
> him to eat. On at least one occasion she took him to the vending machines
> and got him a granola bar because she was so worried about this. I am sure
> my lack of excitement about this matter just confirmed her belief that I 
> am
> a bad mother. Henry, of course, just loved the extra attention.
>
>
> Jennifer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:06 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>
> Hi.  I don't think she meant that her son goes to school in dirty clothes.
> I do know that my sister, who has taught kindergarten for some fifteen
> years, says dirty clothes is one of the first warning signs that teachers
> notice when it comes to neglect and the like.  So it's worth the extra
> effort to keep the clothes as clean as possible.  What I do is throw a
> laundry booster in every load, just in case some stains are missed.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a
> song."  Maya Angelou
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:56 PM
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>
>> Jennifer, listen to me please.  Your son going to school with dirty
>> clothes
>> is trifling!  Not only will other sighted kids notice, he may even get a
>> call from the principal's office!  The dreaded: "Mrs. Jackson, your
>> slovenly-clad son came in here dirty clothes.  How can he learn in this
>> environment!"  No-no-no-no-no!  We wash up; we scrub-a-dub-a-dub.  So 
>> that
>> when your son goes to school, he feels like a million bucks.  This will
>> help him to be clean and well kept, instead of unkempt and slovenly.
>>
>> Eric
>> ..
>>
>> Eric Calhoun.  Facebook: eric at pmpmail.com
>>
>
>
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