[blparent] teen laundry

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Good plan.  Let us know how it turns out.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jennifer Jackson
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 7:41 PM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] teen laundry

He would happily go naked or wear dirty clothes. That has been my experience
with this in the past. It does not help that both of his grandmothers buy
his sad stories and get him more clothes without asking me what he actually
needs. This leads to things like the boy owning 27 t-shirts and only 2 pairs
of jeans that fit.

What I did this time is wait until he went to bed and then went ahead and
folded the clothes before placing them in a trash bag. The bag is tucked
away in my closet until he notices the clothes are gone.


Jennifer
-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:36 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] teen laundry

What would happen if you stopped doing his laundry altogether?  Or stopped
doing it unless he has it in the proper place at the proper time?  Or, on a
weekend when he isn't going to school, remove all of the clothes from his
room except underwear?  Thank God, I don't have to deal with my stepson's
laundry, but those are solutions I would at least contemplate if I did.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jennifer Jackson
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 1:28 AM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: [blparent] teen laundry

I think someone may need to talk me down. :-) Yesterday in the early evening
I asked my 13 year old for his laundry. This morning I had to get really
insistent and ask two more times. Almost 3 thymes as when he finally brought
it down he just left it at the bottom of the stairs without even letting me
know. I washed his jeans with some of his brothers and finished the load up.
Now a second load is in the dryer and he is refusing to fold and hang them.
He even lied and told me they were still wet when I sent him out to handle
it. I am tempted to put them in a trash bag on the basis that they are
obviously not important to him. It has been over an hour since he lied about
them being finished, so it is not as if I am not giving him time to respond
appropriately.



Any suggestions for other responses?





Jennifer

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